April 26th, 2020
Arts & Entertainment News
Trick Or Treat! Marc “Skippy” Price is coming to Midwest Monster Fest Sept. 5-6 at the Rust Belt! Marc is most known for playing Skippy on Family Ties, Price starred as Eddie ‘Ragman’ Weinbauer in the 1986 horror film Trick Or Treat. He appeared with Kevin Dillon in the 1988 action-adventure film The Rescue. He […]
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April 25th, 2020
Arts & Entertainment News
Leslie Vernon himself, Nathan Baesel, will appear at Midwest Monster Fest Sept. 5-6 at East Moline’s Rust Belt! Baesel graduated from the Juilliard School of Drama. One of his best known roles is in the horror/comedy cult classic as the titular character; Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon. He has appeared in various […]
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April 25th, 2020
Arts & Entertainment News
Midwest Monster Fest is proud to announce Tommy Jarvis of Friday 6 and Freddy of Return of the Living Dead…. Thom Mathews will be appearing at the fest, Sept. 5-6 at The Rust Belt in East Moline! This Midwest Monster Fest, Thom Mathews appears alongside his costar, CJ Graham: Jason of Friday the 13th Part […]
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April 24th, 2020
Arts & Entertainment News
Midwest Monster Fest 2020 is proud to welcome Tamara Glynn to their Sept 5th-6th event! Glynn made her television debut in 1987 on the short-lived NBC musical, Rags to Riches. The following year, she guest-starred as Susan Fryman on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains. Glynn first became associated with the horror genre when she guest-starred […]
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April 24th, 2020
Arts & Entertainment News
Midwest Monster Fest 2020 is proud to welcome Rob Mello to their Sept 5th-6th event at The Rust Belt in East Moline, Illinois! Rob Mello is an American actor best known for his role as John Tombs in the Blumhouse breakout film, Happy Death Day, which he’s reprised in Happy Death Day 2U. His first […]
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April 24th, 2020
Arts & Entertainment News
Midwest Monster Fest 2020 is proud to welcome Chaney Morrow to their September 5th and 6th event at The Rust Belt in East Moline, Illinois! Chaney Morrow played Ghost in the 2019 film Haunt written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (writers of A Quiet Place) and produced by Eli Roth. He also […]
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April 16th, 2020
Arts & Entertainment News
Ey, ey, EYYYYY… a Quad-Cities favorite actor and star of the major motion picture, “Haunt,” is going to be haunting the Midwest Monster Fest! Fest organizer Jeff O’Neil announced today: Midwest Monster Fest 2020 is proud to welcome Quad City Native Justin Marxen!Justin is best known for his role as Clown in the 2019 film […]
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January 2nd, 2020
Davenport
Midwest Monster Fest 2020 proud to announce scream queen legend and Quad Cities native, Linnea Quigley will be one of the headliners at this year’s fest!!! Linnea Quigley was born in Davenport, Iowa, on May 27, 1958 growing up there and going to Davenport High School. After moving with her family to Los Angeles in the late […]
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December 30th, 2019
Arts & Entertainment News
Yesterday, we counted down the top stories of the year from 30-21, today we get into the next ten, 20-11, and it’s, for the most part, a pretty upbeat mix of stories of local successes, on the individual and group level. For the criteria on how we picked the stories, check out my column on […]
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November 1st, 2019
Horror Week
The Midwest Monster Fest is returning from the not-so-dead! The event dedicated to horror films, shows and pop culture will be offering a Monstrous good time Sept. 5-6 2020 at a new venue — The Rust Belt, 533 12th Avenue, East Moline! The Midwest Monster Fest is a predominantly horror, but also some general pop culture, […]
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