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Blood Bash 2026

Jackson’s ONLY Horror Film Festival and Convention is BACK for 2026!
MeggaXP is bringing back BLOOD BASH for it’s 9th annual celebration of all things horror and gore! If you’ve never been to Blood Bash, you’re in for a real treat! Here’s everything that’s happening this year:

INTERNATIONAL HORROR FILM FESTIVAL –
We get on average 2000+ horror shorts submitted to our festival, and our judges narrow it down to the top 42 movies that will play over two days.
Friday Night will be a Film Festival BONUS NIGHT where you can watch the semi-finalist movies play (along with a couple of exclusive trivia events), and Saturday you will see the top 20 movies compete for “Best In Show,” “Favorite Male” and “Favorite Female” performances.

VENDOR ROOM – Our vendor room is FILLED with over 60 tables of dealers selling things like art, collectibles, posters, movies, books, and more! Plus this year we will once again have our ATRIUM OF AGONY area that will once again be filled with even MORE vendors for you to shop!

COSPLAY CONTEST – Like to dress up? We are going to be having our annual cosplay contest where men and women both compete for the best cosplay! Anything from clowns to vampires to zombies and more are eligibile, and you never know what’s going to walk through those cosplay room doors!

SCREAM QUEEN CONTEST – Think you have the loudest lungs of them all? Prove it in our annual Scream Queen contest! This is many people’s favorite event of the weekend, and it’s sure to be a scream!

GAME ROOM – We have an entire ballroom filled with games to play, that are all horror themed. From horror themed video games and tabletop games to unique, one of a kind carnival game experiences. Play games, win tickets toward our GRAND PRIZE RAFFLES at the end of the day!

TRIVIA CONTESTS AND LIVE ACTION GAME SHOWS – Only at Blood Bash can you participate in some of the most unique trivia contests and live action game shows! This year we are cooking up all new editions of some of your favorite games from the past as well as bringing in some new games to play for the very first time.

HALL OF HORRORS EXHIBIT – Take a walk down memory lane, visiting every “Best In Show”, “Favorite Male” and “Favorite Female” winning movie from every year at Blood Bash in our HALL OF HORRORS. Literally a long hallway filled with TVs showing all of the movies from year past!

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Events for the Week Feb 3rd-9th 2025

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Blood Bash 2025

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Blood Bash is coming back for our 8th iteration of our international horror film festival and convention on Friday, February 7th (Film Festival Bonus Night) and Saturday, February 8th (MAIN convention day) in 2025!!!!
What is Blood Bash?? Well, it’s a celebration of horror like you’ve never experienced before!!! Here are just SOME of the highlights of the show:
VENDOR ROOM – The true bread and butter of any convention, our Vendor Room is chock-full of over 50 tables of horror vendors selling anything from movie posters to fake heads to taxidermized real ducklings that are dressed up as Beetlejuice…yes…it was a thing.
FILM FESTIVAL – If the bread and butter of this festival is the vendor room, then the steak and eggs is the FILM FESTIVAL portion of this show. Each year we get over a THOUSAND entries into our festival, and we narrow it down to an elite 42-50 movies each year. Those movies (all shorts) will play during the weekend, with the semi-finalists playing on Friday night, and the Finalists playing on Saturday. These films are trying to win “Best In Show,” “Favorite Actor,” and “Favorite Actress” awards, voted on our Blood Bash judging panel and our VIP ticket purchasers!
COSPLAY CONTEST – Guys and gals alike can dress in their Saturday best and participate in our cosplay contest! Winners receive a trophy, a champion’s badge, some swag, and a place on the MeggaXP Wall of Fame!!!!
SCREAM QUEEN CONTEST – Our favorite event of the weekend – – guys and gals can both give it their best scream to try and take home top prize during our scream queen contest! But don’t blow it all on the first try, at Blood Bash, the top THREE screamers have to scream AGAIN in the finals! Can anyone dethrone BACK TO BACK champion Bethany M????
LIVE ACTION HORROR GAME SHOWS – Whether it’s Family Feud, Jeopardy, Horror Trivia Live, or any other show we come up with – audiences can participate or watch a variety of horror themed game shows!
HORROR THEMED CARNIVAL GAMES AND VIDEO GAMES – Take your turn tossing severed baby heads into a clown named Bilbi’s mouth. Toss some rings over bottles filled with blood. Throw darts or shoot nerf guns at horror icons. There are a lot of carnival games to be had at the Bash, and the best part – THEY’RE ALL FREE!!! Oh, and there are also horror themed video game challenges as well!!!
ADULT DRINK SPECIALS WITH A HORROR TWIST – – – The bar is open and we serve our usual horror themed cocktails – the Bruce Juice, the Monkey Shines Cocktail, etc.
BLOOD BASH AFTER-DARK FEATURING TATTERED & TORN (DETROIT’S SLIPKNOT TRIBUTE BAND) LIVE IN CONCERT – The return of the Blood Bash after-party is at hand and it is FULLY loaded with awesome stuff to do, but most importantly, you can see Tattered & Torn in concert, as they are one of the best Slipknot tribute bands you’ll ever see! This event will run from 7:30 PM – 11:00 PM!
MORE SURPRISES – BB24 was our biggest and best show yet, and because of that, we are more than likely going to add in a few extra surprises!

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Blood Bash 2023

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MeggaXP’s Blood Bash is coming BACK to the Commonwealth Commerce Center on February 11th, 2023 – with a special Film Festival BONUS NIGHT on Friday, February 10th!
Blood Bash 2023 will be our 6th annual International Horror Film Festival & Convention, and will feature horror films from all over the world! Last year, we had 2513 film submissions from 48 countries, of which we narrowed down to 60 films from 19 countries that actually screened at the show! The film festival shows an incredible amount of short films every year, and offers up three main prizes: Best In Show, Favorite Male Performance, and Favorite Female Performance!
But Blood Bash is WAY more than *just* a film festival! We also will have 40+ horror themed vendors in our vendor room selling anything horror related including prints, posters, shirts, paintings, one of a kind clothing and accessories, random oddities, and so much more! If it’s horror, you can find it here!
Still not convinced? Well then, perhaps you’ll be interested in some of the more unique things that we offer at Blood Bash. Things like FREE TO PLAY carnival games that go all day that are all HORROR THEMED. Things like “Feed Me Baby,” Blood Bottle Ring Toss, Our Horror Villain Shooting Gallery, and more! We also offer horror themed trivia challenges as well as video game challenges. Win tickets in ANY of these events and you will be entered in to win one of our GRAND PRIZE RAFFLES! All of our vendors generously donate items to our incredible prize baskets, and this year we will have THREE DIFFERENT prize drawing times. In the past we only did it at the end of the day, but this year we will be drawing prizes at 1:00 PM, 4:00 PM, and 7:00 PM.
If dressing up is your thing, you can participate in our COSPLAY CONTEST and enter to win a trophy as well as CHAMPIONS PASSES to the next year’s show!
Or if you’d rather compete in our SCREAM QUEEN contest, you can give it your all and try to out scream everyone else and also win a trophy and free passes to next year!
Blood Bash has become somewhat of a hidden gem in the Jackson community, and the people that come to this show have a blast! We’re not the biggest or flashiest convention, that’s for sure – and we don’t bring in a ton of horror guests, but we DO offer UNIQUE things to do at our show, and in the end – we want our focus to be on the two most important things – THE VENDORS AND THE MOVIES. So please, come out and support the artists, crafters, authors, and filmmakers that help make this show truly special.