Horror Con coming to Allentown in time for Valentine’s Day weekend

The Horror Sideshow Market and New Jersey Horror Con and Film Festival are hosting an event in Allentown on February 15 and 16, 2020..

The location:
Merchants Square Mall
1901 S 12th St, Allentown, Pennsylvania 18103

The latest count on Facebook shows that more than 250 are planning on attending the event..

The details as presented through the Facebook page:

Welcome to The Horror Sideshow Market. Brought to you by Ryan Scott Weber from NJ Horror Con and Film Festival. Shopping and the Bizarre. Two days of awesome vendors and shopping for $130. You get one 8 foot Vendor table for 2 days at Horror Sideshow Market. Includes 2 chairs, electric if needed and all tables will have black table clothes on them if needed.
www.horrorsideshowmarket.com for tickets and more!

A few guests have already been lined up for the occasion..

Ken Sagoes is one of my favorites..

Ken Sagoes is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Roland Kincaid in the fantasy horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and the sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master. Sagoes portrayed Darryl in the television series What’s Happening Now!! from 1987-1988.

Also in attendance will be Stevan Mena..

I actually interviewed Steven Mena several years ago when I ran the Horror Report website .. I talked to him a few times when Malevolence came out. It was a low-budget horror flick.. Mena is actually from Allentown.

I was able to travel on the ‘Wayback machine’ to find my old Horror-Report from 2002 about MALEVOLENCE..

I wrote this, THEN (when I was 22 no less! them were the days)

There are a few people trying to keep horror alive…There are even more who feel that horror in it yet another rebirth period…The 1980s cold war is over. So are slasher films, that is obvious by HALLOWEEN 8’s poor performance, plus JASON X’s mocking satirical look at films it was once the master of…
Rebirth. Refreshing.
Steven Mena’s hopeful that his film, MALEVOLENCE, will be a contributor to the great awakening of horror films…
Mena, of Magnetic Media Productions, learned film in his backyard growing up…”I’ve been making movies since I was eleven, along with my brother. I attended New York Tech, but dropped out. My opinion is that if you want to learn film, pick up the camera and do it,” he told the HORROR-REPORT.
“My friend went to NYU for film, but admits he learned more on my four week film shoot than he ever did in college. Doing something prepares you much more than books ever can. Malevolence marks my first full length 35mm film. The shoot was grueling, stretching out from originally 4 weeks to 2 years. Everything that could have gone wrong, did. We lost locations, got kicked out of places, crashed our trucks, one of our actors even had a brain aneurysm during the shoot! But in the end, we brought it to an end and as they say, sometimes the worst shoots become the best films. Just look at Jaws, Star Wars or Apocalypse Now. All horrible shoots, but great movies!” he told us today..

That was then. This is now. 2020.