{"id":40737,"date":"2017-07-19T09:44:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T15:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=40737"},"modified":"2017-07-19T09:48:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T15:48:06","slug":"scare-up-some-fun-at-the-horror-con-of-mississippi-in-tupelo-july-22-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/scare-up-some-fun-at-the-horror-con-of-mississippi-in-tupelo-july-22-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Scare Up Some Fun at The Horror Con of Mississippi in Tupelo July 22\u201323"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The Horror Con of Mississippi<\/strong> takes place this weekend at the Tupelo Furniture Market from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorrorconofmississippi.com\/\">July 22\u201323<\/a> featuring screenings of cult classics, horror icons, and even a zombie prom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Saturday kicks off at 10 am with a showing of <em>Night of the Living Dead\u00a0<\/em>at 10 am and and doesn&#8217;t slow down until midnight with a showing of the class <strong>Rocky Horror Picture Show.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The con will feature panels with actors from mainstream horror like <strong><em>The Walking Dead<\/em><\/strong> to the lesser known likes of <em><strong>Repo! The Genetic Opera<\/strong><\/em> and 1981&#8217;s <strong><em>Graduation Day.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The convention has a long list of celebrities appearances including <strong>Michael Berryman<\/strong> of <strong><em>The Hills Have Eyes<\/em><\/strong>, <strong>Bill Moseley<\/strong> of <strong>Repo!<\/strong>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-teacher-resigns-to-pursue-acting-career\/\"><strong>Andy Field<\/strong><\/a> of <strong>Five Nights at Freddy&#8217;s: Sister Location<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Some of the events planned for the weekend are Repo! and Rocky Horror sing-alongs, <strong>Weird Planet Museum<\/strong>, and a laser battle tag. Check out the full schedule <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorrorconofmississippi.com\/schedule\">here<\/a> to see what all screenings and panels The Horror Con of Mississippi has planned.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Horror Con of Mississippi takes place this weekend at the Tupelo Furniture Market from July 22\u201323 featuring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":40738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[10610,10705,10708,10709,5,642,10707,10710,10704,10706,187],"class_list":["post-40737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-localfestivals","tag-andy-field","tag-bill-moseley","tag-graduation-day","tag-michael-berryman","tag-mississippi","tag-ms","tag-repo-the-genetic-opera","tag-the-hills-have-eyes","tag-the-horror-con-of-mississippi","tag-the-walking-dead","tag-tupelo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-12-horror-con.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}