Power is a State of Mind: For the Love of Horror '22

When I walk into Bowlers at around midday, I find the Halloween 2007 movie cast playing ‘Never Have I Ever’ with a seated audience. Scout Taylor-Compton (Laurie Strode) is asking the us which of us had had a threesome. One or two claimed to have done.

It’s the second day of For the Love of Horror, a horror movie convention in Manchester. There are panels like the one currently taking Q+As (The cast of Dream Warriors are up next), there are cosplayers, photo opportunities, stalls with an array of movie stars signing autographs, a small cinema showing classic horror movies, set builds from films like Scream and The Thing, and a trader’s market with horror memorabilia.

Next up: a photo op with Lisa and Louise Burns, The Grady Twins from the 1980 movie The Shining. They seemed nice.

Tim Cappello, saxophonist from 80s vampire classic The Lost Boys, takes the stage after this. He explains that he missed the audition for Lethal Weapon, for the role of head bad guy Peter McAllister (not to be confused with Kevin’s dad in Home Alone, a totally different character with the same name). This went to Mitchell Ryan (whom you might recognise as Fletcher’s boss in Liar Liar and Debbie’s dad in Gross Pointe Blank).

Producer Joel Silver took Cappello on for Lost Boys, where he’s seen singing his cover of The Call’s hit I Still Believe, providing his own saxophone accompaniment.

“I Still Believe,” Cappello clarifies, “is not a religious song.”

After a Q and A session of his own, he grabs his sax for a one-man performance. Religious or not, the song and artist – not to mention the movie – all have a following.

He rounds off his set by switching his sax for, if I’m not mistaken, a kazoo.

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