Pay Attention!!: My Scarefest Horror & Paranormal Convention 2022 Experience

 

Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger), Kane Hodder (Jason), Lance Henriksen (The Terminator, Near Dark, Pumpkinhead, Aliens, Alien 3, Hard Target, The Quick and The Dead, Millenium, Alien vs Predator and so much more, and Robert Patrick (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Die Hard 2, The Sopranos, The X Files, We Are Marshall, Scorpion,Peacemaker and so much more).

 

I saw a lot of other cool people too.

 

I truly felt the blade of Robert’s Freddy nails, Kane truly choked me a bit (He does that during photo ops often, which I think is pretty awesome!  Although I have a complaint about him which I’ve typed below this.), Lance really talked to me, and Patrick was cool too.

 

When I was waiting in line to get my picture taken with Englund, he was walking along and stopped and looked at a Freddy lookalike girl and said to her “pay attention!”. Really cool.

 

I was able to ask Kane a question at a Q&A that was about a video game he’s part of. I asked him about Jason X, which I really like.  I said above that I enjoyed the phot op with Kane, and I am a fan of his work, but after he answered my question, he said to the crowd “Ron Jeremy ladies and gentlemen!” in reference to me.  Now, I know he has a smart aleck sense of humor, but I did nothing to deserve that.  And being compared to someone who is spending the rest of his life in prison on rape charges is NOT funny.  That was my only negative about this experience.

 

I have two pictures with Lance because I think he got somewhat distracted briefly and he insisted the photographer take another picture. So I got two pictures!

 

When I went to his autograph line (he signed a picture of his character in The Terminator), he told me he enjoyed working with Paul Winfield (RIP) in that movie and when I told him some of the lines, he gave me one back too.

 

And I guess he saw my Chuck Norris Lonewolf hat from The Expendables 2 and asked me if I was in the military.

 

I told him I wasn’t but I told him about my Pawpaw being a paratrooper and my Aunt Garnie being a nurse in World War 2.

 

He seemed very interested and impressed with what I was saying and he told me he had been in the Navy.

 

I wish I had told him thank you for your service but I forgot.

 

But anyways, he took the time to speak to me and every fan in line.

 

He had a quite a line too and it was slow at times because some fans he spoke to for 10 minutes which is unheard of at events like this.

 

But it’s great because he truly cares.

 

He was worth the price of admission alone.

 

What a great day, other than Kane Hodder comparing me to Ron Jeremy.  Not funny Kane.