Category: Media Production Guest

Count Gore De Vol

March 29, 2025 /

Count Gore De Vol began his career of hosting horror movies in 1973 on WDCA-TV in Washington, DC. In 1998, he took his program to the Internet, becoming the first horror host to do so. In 2018, he created his own Roku Channel, Count Gore De Vol Presents providing ten new video offerings every month.

Count Gore is played by actor Dick Dyszel, who also produces the program. He has appeared in several feature films including, The Alien Factor, Nightbeast, and Galaxy Invader, and was the subject of a feature length documentary on his career called Every Other Day is Halloween now available on an extended Blu-Ray.

Stephen Burks

March 27, 2025 /

Stephen Burks is an illustrator living in Virginia who creates fantasy and pulp illustrations. His work has appeared in indie comics, webcomics, and pulp magazines where he won awards for his interior pen and ink illustrations. He is passionate about storytelling and tabletop gaming and has a Master’s in Creative Writing. Stephen draws inspiration from the art of realism, commercial posters, and the golden age of illustration.

With Iconograph Studios he created the Our Last Gasp webcomic, multiple comics, and wrote and directed episodes of the comedy web series Phenomena: Probing the Paranormal as well as several short films. His art appears in multiple volumes of the award-winning Pulp Reality anthology including the cover of Volume 3. His interior art in Pulp Reality, Volume 2 won the Pulp Factory Best Interior Art in 2022. Stephen created trading cards for Marvel, Upper Deck, Stormgate Press, Bad Axe Studios, and others. His published comic covers include work for Radical Visions Comics and Pocket Jack Comics as well as others.

Sammie Cassell

March 26, 2025 /

Sammie Cassell is a NC-based actor, producer and comedian. He has been seen in Halloween Kills, Eyes of Tammy Faye, Please Don’t Destroy, Hunting Wives and many local films. He does improv comedy out of the Idiot Box Comedy Club in Greensboro, NC and is a performer with the Channel 53 sketch troupe. Known in some circles as Sammie the Comic Book Man. He’s also VP of Wreak Havoc Productions.

Ghostbusters: Don’t Make Me Laugh

March 22, 2025 /

It’s a rookie Ghostbuster’s first job—can he show his surly teammate he has what it takes to catch a pesky poltergeist? Ghostbusters: Don’t Make Me Laugh is a fan film created by the members of the real Ghostbusters, Virginia.

A.M. Giddings

March 22, 2025 /

A.M. Giddings is a writer, scientist, and independent filmmaker from North Carolina. She has a PhD in Microbiology and authored multiple scientific articles in virology, cell line design, and gene therapy. She is the author of the futuristic dark fantasy series Dance of Ages, which begins with Shadow into Light. Recently, she has had short stories published in various anthologies and has written and directed a short horror film with Sick Chick Flicks. She is also the co-director of the Sick Chick Flicks Film Festival.  

O. Hai Mark

March 4, 2025 /

O. Hai Mark is an emcee, host, filmmaker, and content creator who loves a bad movie or two. You can catch him online at Game Nights, Poker Nights, Karaoke Nights, and his flagship show Terrible Movies with Wonderful People

Bill Mulligan

March 4, 2025 /

Bill Mulligan is an indie filmmaker, podcaster, and author, when he isn’t teaching high school science in Sanford, NC. As part of the thriving North Carolina indie film scene, he has served as a writer, director, and special effects craftsman for five features films and over two dozen short films, including the award-winning Belladonna, Cache Me If You Can, Fix It In Post, and the upcoming Emotional Support Demon. As a podcaster, he can be found on Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror (1970s and 1980s), The Videostore Junkies, and Deep Images. His first novel, Raum, made it’s official launch at RavenCon and he is looking forward to seeing his RavenCon family!

Angela Pritchett

February 26, 2025 /

Angela is an award-winning, master-level cosplayer and educator. She started sewing from a very young age when her sense of style and love of dressing up like movie and TV show characters made her father and grandmother realize that “this child needs to learn how to sew.”

With over twenty years of experience in the world of cosplay, special FX makeup, and film, Angela has focused on introducing new people to costuming/cosplay and FX makeup, helping create a fun and safe environment for all. When not working on cosplays, she has designed and created costumes and makeups for stage and screen. She loves the process of bringing a thought on a piece of paper to life. Angela also enjoys writing (several short stories and two cookbooks), directing (she has won numerous awards for her short film directing, as well as for her acting), and dressing up her two pugs—Jimmy and Dezzy.

Angela can be seen in a plethora of films and on TV, including Plan 9, The Porkchop Trillogy, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and the JG Wentworth commercial.

She has been a cosplay guest, judge, contest runner, and instructor at many conventions across the US. Her costumes have been featured in The Washington Post, CosMode, and multiple coffee table costuming/cosplay books. You can find her online on Instagram @Angalese or on TikTok @AngelaPlaysUkulele.

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