The Thing Cast Texas Frightmare Weekend 2023

Frightmare had six cast members and the director from the movie, The Thing. It’s one of my favorite movies. I first saw it in a semi empty theater at night and was thoroughly creeped out and paranoid by the end. Every time I watch it, I think about the feelings I had in the theater.

There was a some really nice cosplay from this movie. Mostly it was the MacReady character. It’s nice to know this movie is still known and loved.

I picked up the three actors I haven’t gotten before: Joel Polis, David Clennon, and Peter Maloney. All three were friendly. It was great to see them. I hope they all do more conventions so others can meet them too.

I had gotten Thomas G Waites before but that was from The Warriors. I splurged and got him on a photo from this movie. As before, he was very nice. We chatted and he told me about the movie, Target that he recently made. He did everything on that movie. Wrote, Directed, Produced, and even wrote some of the music.

While Richard Masur and Keith David were at the convention, I skipped them only because I have gotten them before.

AH

Thomas G Waites Texas Frightmare Weekend 2017

Thomas G Waites has been in 2 of my all-time favorite movies: The Thing and The Warriors. It was very hard to choose a photo to get signed as I liked both characters in each movie.  I choose Fox from Warriors as he had a better quote to add to the autograph.

Thomas was friendly. He knew the movie quote I wanted and had started writing it before I even finished asking.  

I had already heard him talk about The Thing while I was waiting. He said it was colder than he expected and it was COLD. I wanted to ask a few questions about The Warriors. I limited myself to only: Did you expect to run so much?  I knew the answer but I still wanted to hear him say: no.

I thanked him and let the next fan meet him.

AH