The Bash is back! Convention features stars, movies
The Monster Bash convention returns Friday through Sunday near Cranberry Township at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh-Cranberry, 910 Sheraton Drive, Marshall Township, Allegheny County.
In its routine fashion, the event features more than 200 vendors, movie screenings and other activities.
This year, the convention will feature classic film starlets and a look at one of the most successful independently made horror docudramas of all time.Also appearing will be Veronica Carlson, who starred with Christopher Lee in “Dracula Has Risen from the Grave,” with Peter Cushing in “Frankenstein Must be Destroyed” and with Ralph Bates in “The Horror of Frankenstein.”She appeared in two spoofs with David Niven, “Old Dracula” parodying many of the scary films she appeared in and “Casino Royale” taking a swipe at the James Bond franchise.
An on stage question and answer session with Carlson will be at 8:30 p.m. Friday.Victoria Vetri, Playboy Magazine's Playmate of the Year for 1968, starred in “When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth” in 1970 for Hammer Films and “Invasion of the Bee Girls” in 1973. She also had a role in the seminal horror flick “Rosemary's Baby” in 1968.A question and answer session with Vetri on stage will be at 9 p.m. Saturday.“The Legend of Boggy Creek” from 1972 is one of the first independent horror docudramas made. The movie contains interviews and reenactments in a documentary style, depicting the supposed tale of a Bigfoot-like creature seen in and around Fouke, Ark.Pamula Pierce, daughter of the film's director Charles B. Pierce, will appear at Monster Bash with a question-and-answer period at 1:30 p.m. Sunday.Pamula Pierce appeared in the movie as a child and also the sequel directed and starring her dad, “Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues.”Stars from many other classic horror films will be available for autographs and meets-and-greets.There is a cost associated with the event with a possibility of buying a three-day pass for the entire event. Children younger than age 12 are admitted free with a paying adult.For a full list of guests, schedules and other information, visit monsterbashnews.com/bash.html.
