50 strangest shots from Spooky Empire’s May-hem

Spooky Empire’s May-hem celebrated A Nightmare on Elm Street‘s 30th anniversary this weekend (May 30-June 1). The horror convention, which is the world’s largest, welcomed the film’s star, Robert Englund, along with other cult favorites, including John Carpenter, Akira Takarada, Lana Parilla, Sean Maguire, Lita Ford, Alex Vincent and others. The weekend-long event, which combined celeb-spotting with stellar cosplay and detailed art, was every horror-lover’s best nightmare, as we saw in these shots from Instagram and convention attendee Jeremy Gonzalez.

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