We’re very excited to be attending the brand new Indianapolis convention Days of the Dead this weekend. We’ll be selling Outpost Doom and promoting various stuff at our booth so stop by and say hello! And oh yeah, we’re shooting a short film with Uncle Randy of Drunken Zombie! It’s gonna be action packed and to tell us a little more about the convention, we interviewed Adolfo Dorta, one of the organizers of the event itself. Check it out!

Dead lantern: First things first, could you introduce yourself and give our readers a little bit of backstory about yourself?

Adolfo Dorta: I’m originally from Miami, FL but moved to the Chicagoland area with my wife in November of 2008. I’ve been going to Sci-Fi and comic book conventions since I was a young, young kid, but didn’t really start doing shows that were exclusively horror until about 6 or 7 years ago. Being a Florida native, I’ve always been a long time fan and loyal patron of Spooky Empire’s Ultimate Horror Weekend and have attended it religiously for their past 5 or 6 shows. Since moving to the mid west, I’ve expanded my convention going a bit more, taking advantage of all of the great horror shows out here such as Flashback Weekend and HorrorHound.

Much like most people my age, I grew up in the wonderful VHS era, where there was a mom and pop video rental store on every other corner. My mother was always strict about making sure I stayed out of the horror section lest I be stricken with nightmares by some of the ridiculous cover art that was so common back in those glory days. Despite her best attempts, I always found a way to sneak away and marvel at the gruesome, gory, and over the top imagery that adorned those beautiful boxes, and the fact that it was “forbidden fruit” made it that much more enticing. My curiosity went on to grow into a way of life, one which I have been fortunate to now turn into two really awesome projects – my website, From Dusk till Con, and the upcoming DAYS OF THE DEAD.

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Interesting stuff in this AV Club interview with filmmaker Ti West (House of the Devil). Bummed to hear that he isn’t pleased with how Cabin Fever 2 ended up.

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New interview with the prolific filmmaker over at AV Club. I like his attitude.

I don’t think I’ve done anything important or magnificent. I’m a worker, and the thing I prefer in my life is cinema. When I’m working in cinema, I’m happy. And that’s all, you know?

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A long time ago, in an internet far far away, Deadlantern used to be known as The Keyhole. That site was generally more “anything goes” rather than horror-centric, but we (meaning myself) used to do interviews with all sorts of horror celebrities and have odd features like the one which was a photo essay documenting myself as I dug for the treasure inside those gravel pyramids you can get at museums. Our interviews followed a basic template: half the questions would be “serious” and half would be random nonsensical stuff that most interviews never asked.

Alas, all of those interviews and features disappeared when Jeff built Deadlantern. However, as I was cleaning out my harddrive, I found one. Our interview with Debbie Rochon. This is probably a good 3-5 years old, so a lot of the info ain’t informative, but I present it here in its entirety.

There was a pretty emphatic “No” from the listeners when we inquired a while back about doing interviews on the Splattercast. I get that. But perhaps we might be able to revive these e-mail interviews that we used to do. Might be a good way for us to keep connected to the horror elites without having to change the Splattercast in a way that would upset many of the listeners. You’d kinda get the best of both worlds, I suppose. So anyway, here’s the interview with Debbie Rochon. It’s a blast from the past and a probably a new window into the world that we were inhabiting before DeadLantern came about. Leave a comment if you like it, hate it, good idea, bad idea, or  just tell us how good your mom’s muffins are.

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