As a Chicago native, I spent many fond weekends as a fan attending Flashback Weekend so it’s an incredible honor for me to be returning to my hometown this weekend to serve as one of the convention’s ...

Normally we don’t do this kind of thing, but many of us here at Dread Central spent some of our fondest movie-going memories at our local drive-ins, and we have a feeling quite a few of you out there ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The legendary Rich Koz, better known as ...

There will be a lot of geeky events going on this coming weekend, including Flashback Weekend which will be returning to Rosemont, IL! I’ll be roaming the halls of the Crowne Plaza myself, and taking ...

When Niles residents Mia and Mike Kerz realized there weren't any horror film festivals in the Chicago area for them to attend, they decided to start their own. “We are just huge fans of film and ...

Flashback Weekend is Chicago’s largest and longest running horror convention featuring a huge horror dealers room, special events, and major celebrity guests including legendary director George A.

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Assorted horror features, screening as part of the Flashback Weekend Horror Convention at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare in Rosemont. Highlights include director John Carpenter introducing his 1982 ...

As part of the Flashback Weekend horror convention, which runs Friday through Sunday at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare in Rosemont, the hotel’s west parking lot will be converted into an open-air ...