
Spook Show Entertainment Inc. announced today that they will be moving all of their film festival events to the Portage Theater (home to SSE’s Chicago Horror Film Festival event for more then half a decade) by the end of 2013. This transition begins with The 2012 Indy Horror Film Festival being moved to the historic venue this season. The Indy event has been hosted by Dekalb Illinois’ Egyptian Theatre since being brought back from an expired festival 2 years ago. Willy Adkins (festival director / president of SSE) states, “I have always loved the Egyptian Theatre, and the move to Chicago wasn’t an easy decision to make”, he continues “It came down to resources, customer demand and our need to grow.” Adkins stated that “Spook Show Entertainment will continue to host many events in Dekalb, including haunted tours at the Egyptian Theatre and monthly movie and mixed media events at the House Cafe. This move is taking place simply because we have to go where the event type is in demand” SSE’s home office is located in Dekalb and Adkins stated that the company has no intentions of moving its offices out of Dekalb anytime soon.
The Afterlife Paranormal Conference & Film Festival will also be premiering in Chicago in October 2012. Other SSE festivals to make the move to Chicago in 2013 include, The Prairie State Film Festival and The Laugh or Die Comedy Festival, both of which are scheduled at the House Cafe in 2012 for one more year in Dekalb.
Adkins closed by saying, “Jason Sullivan (SSE Vice President) and I both have high expectations with this new decision and look forward to many years of events at the Portage Theater”.
You can meet Willy Adkins & Jason Sullivan as they sponsor a meal for Dekalb’s “Feed’em Soup Community Project” on Sunday December 18th. That same day, they are co-hosting a charity fundraiser called “Holiday Healing” at The House Cafe of Dekalb to benefit the same organization.












Dominique Swain is an American actress who got her start in acting in 1997 when she won the lead role in the movie adaptation of the novel Lolita. While many consider this to be her most well-known role, Swain has appeared in over two dozen films since, including Face/Off, Happy Campers, and The Job.
Swain was born in Malibu, California, on August 12, 1980. Her mother couldn’t quite make it to the hospital, however, and Swain ended up being born in her father’s car on the Santa Monica Freeway. While she grew up in Malibu, Swain’s family didn’t live in one of the stereotypical million dollar mansions, nor did she go to an expensive private school: Swain graduated from Malibu High School, a public school, with straight A’s. Another of the five Swain children, Chelse Swain, is also an actress.

Start the festival day off early, ZOMBIE STYLE! Meet up at the Southwest corner of Portage Park at 11am in your best zombie make up! We will have some fx people on hand to help with final touches (tips for FX make up are appreciated if a pro-artist is helping you with personal materials)!!! Then once everyone is ready, at noon time the zombie begin a walk down the mean streets of Chicago! The walk ends at the Portage Theater, where all zombies are offered $5 off admission (just promise you won’t eat our box office person’s brain)! Word on the street is that some fresh brains might be at the portage for a mass feeding! 
Once you have made your way to the festival from your bloody Zombie Walk, STAY IN COSTUME! Enjoy the day as a Zombie, and it might pay off later!!! At 5:15pm crawl on stage for the 2011 CHFF Zombie Costume Contest!! We will get you on stage to show everyone what time and effort you put into your brain thirsting costume! Fun prizes and give aways for the winners!!
Once young women with their lives ahead of them (or so they thought), women with fresh faces, rosy cheeks, a spring in their step and blessed with the beauty of youth and hope, the members of Prairie Smoke have, through a tragic and melancholy course of events, been transformed. Into what, who can really say as creatures such as the likes of these have rarely been seen before. Cloaked in the pallor of death and staring with lifeless eyes, they emerge from their tombs to perform their own strange and ghoulish danse macabre.













