This past weekend, genre entertainment fans gathered by the thousands in Pasadena, CA for one of the most anticipated horror events of the year, Monsterpalooza! Makeup artists, painters, sculptors, and general purveyors of the weird took up space in the Pasadena Convention hall to show off their creations and peddle nostalgic collectibles. Guests at the event included Linda Blair (The Exorcist, Hell Night), Haruo Nakajima (original Godzilla suit actor), Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers, Sleepy Hollow), Dina Meyer (Dragonheart, Starship Troopers), Jake Busey (The Frighteners, Starship Troopers), Doug Bradley (Hellraiser franchise), Famous Monsters cover artist Basil Gogos, and representatives from the classic horror families including Bela Lugosi Jr., Victoria Price, Sara Karloff, and The Chaney Family. Jj Abrams was spotted perusing the dealers hall among other faces ranging from Lost star Jorge Garcia to Dick Van Dyke! Highlights of the weekend included a tribute to Famous Monsters founder Forrest J...
- 4/25/2016
- by Caroline Stephenson
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Norman England started his career in the show business as a guitar and keyboard player for the New York based band Proper iD. In 1993 he moved permanently to Japan, where he began working as a journalist. In 1998 he spent a week on the set of George A. Romero’s TV commercial for the video game Resident Evil 2 and in 1999 became the Japan correspondent for Fangoria, a U.S magazine dedicated to horror, splatter and exploitation movies. As a journalist he has worked for a variety of magazines such as Hobby Japan, Japanzine, Flix, Japanese Giants, theJapanese Times, Eiga Hiho, e.t.c.
Since 1999, he has visited over 35 film sets in Japan, including The Grudge, Gamera 3 and the entire Godzilla Millennium series, with an extended stay for Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah, where he visited the set almost continuously from April to October of 2000.
With Asami and Rina Takeuchi
He has...
Since 1999, he has visited over 35 film sets in Japan, including The Grudge, Gamera 3 and the entire Godzilla Millennium series, with an extended stay for Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah, where he visited the set almost continuously from April to October of 2000.
With Asami and Rina Takeuchi
He has...
- 9/17/2015
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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