VENDOR SPOTS SOLD OUT/WAITLIST FULL
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DEAD FORMATS 6
Saturday 8/30/25 (11am-6pm)
3317 E 10th St Indianapolis, IN 46201
Wristbands sold at door (CASH ONLY)
$10 all day / $5 after 2pm
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Sixth annual VHS convention and vintage media swap in Indianapolis. Join us for 35+ vendors and guests from across the country spanning two levels converge for a day of strictly vintage media! Hand-picked vendors specialize in VHS, vintage movie magazines, BETA, CED-Videodisc, LaserDisc, Comics Audiocassettes, Records, Posters & Ephemera, Promos, Displays, Standees, Vintage Toys/Action Figs, Presskits, Books & more! Special emphasis on: independent/underground, horror/gore, sci-fi, cult, action, martial arts, sleaze/adult, hard-to-find films...and anything WEIRD
RSVP to this FB event page & follow on IG
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SPECIAL GUESTS
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Hugh Gallagher
Tina Krause
Mike Diana
Paul Woodard
Dingo Jones
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DF6 ITINERARY (8/30/25)
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11AM - Convention Floor Opens - Wristbands $10 at door
2PM - Start - Half Price Wristbands at door
2:30PM - Draculina Lookalike Contest
3:00PM - Dead Formats Deathmatch (Hooks v. Thunder Kitty)
4:30 PM - Annual Group Photo
6:00 PM - Convention Floor Closes
***FILMS SCREENING 11:30-6PM--SEE UNDERGROUND CINEMA SCHEDULE BELOW***
Itinerary subject to change—check back often.
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SPECIAL GUESTS
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Hugh Gallagher - 2025 Guest of Honor
TINA KRAUSE (actress/filmmaker/underground icon)
Mike Diana (artist/underground filmmaker)
Dingo Jones (Star of GOROTICA)
Paul Woodard (Star of GOROTICA and GORE WHORE)
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WRESTLING - 3PM
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Third annual DEAD FORMATS DEATH MATCH
HOOKS (C) vs. THUNDER KITTY
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DF UNDERGROUND CINEMA
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Debuting this year in the basement—ALL DAY DURING THE CON—DEAD FORMATS UNDERGROUND CINEMA! We are screening three films in honor of 2025 guests Tina Krause and Hugh Gallagher:
Tina Krause's surreal short film PICTURE BOX (2023, 20 min); Brewce Longo's VICK & TARSTAR'S SCARECROW FACTORY (2025, 91 min, cowritten by Kasper Meltedhair)--starring roles both Tina Krause and Hugh Gallagher(!); and WAKE THE DEAD, Hugh Gallagher's documentary on the making of his cult film GOROTICA (2023, 69 min)
SCREENING SCHEDULE
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11:30 AM - PICTURE BOX
12:00 PM - VICK & TARSTAR'S SCARECROW FACTORY
1:35 PM - WAKE THE DEAD
2:50 PM - PICTURE BOX
3:15 PM - VICK & TARSTAR'S SCARECROW FACTORY
4:45 PM - WAKE THE DEAD
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DF6 PRE-PARTY (FRI 8/29)
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Check out our screening of Gallagher’s GORE TRILOGY at Kan Kan Cinema the night before, Fri 8/29/25.
Trilogy passes ($20) available now—link in bio! Purchase of trilogy pass automatically enters you in a Blu-ray raffle sponsored by Severin Films.
GORGASM 6PM
—short introduction by director
GOROTICA 7:35PM
—Q&A w/ director and cast
GORE WHORE 9PM
Stayed tuned for more info as we get closer to the con. Follow @deadformats_vhscon for latest updates.
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2025 GUEST OF HONOR: HUGH GALLAGHER
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HUGH GALLAGHER, underground SOV filmmaker & independent publisher, created his character DRACULINA at the age of 12 in a self-published fanzine. Appearing in Gallagher’s subsequent print media, she also served as the namesake of his independent publishing/distribution outfit(s), DRACULINA PUBLISHING and DRACULINA DIRECT.
DF is overjoyed that original event art for DF6 features a newly-resurrected Draculina, drawn by Gallagher for the first time in over a decade(!)
Gallagher—writer/director behind the infamous shot-on-video GORE TRILOGY will be appearing as the 2025 Guest of Honor at DF6. The trilogy, consisting of GORGASM (1990), GOROTICA (1993) and GORE WHORE (1994), was made in Edwardsville, IL and Memphis for a budget of ~$15,000. The series is often referred to by fans as the “American NEKROMANTIK.”
An essential figure in the mail-order distribution of obscure film/VHS-related print and comics, Gallagher’s publications were a hub connecting a generation of SOV filmmakers. Draculina Mag in particular provided a rare peek into the production of not only his own films, but other monumental titles in the genre as well.
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