There are a lot more people at Comic-Con than the program schedule may lead you to believe. I caught up with two young horror filmmakers at this year's Con: Jacob Gentry, one of the directors on The Signal, and Adam Wingard who made Pop Skull. We started talking about filmmakers that had impressed or influenced us. Two names that came up: Takashi Miike and Kiyoshi Kurosawa. In fact Asian Extreme Cinema in general was something we all had in common and felt the need to discuss.

For me, the San Diego Comic-Con is all about the contribution of artists to the realm of the Fantastic. While most of the ateendees battle lines at Hall H for the Hollywood studio panels (that hardly ever hit the right note for the genre), I look forward to meeting the real artists in the industry. This year my focus is on the hard working woman of horror cinema. My interviews at this year's Comic-Con range from horror icons such as Elvira, to great solid actress like the amazing Ashley Laurence (Hellraiser), to well know horror expert Jovanka Vuckovic editor-in-chief of Rue Morgue magazine and many more! Let's celebrate the Girl Power of horror cinema!

Sometimes terrible things happen quite naturally... The Reflecting Skin (Live Home Video)

Here's my list of the top hard-to-find movies selling at conventions around the world at this moment (see if you can track any down at Comic-Con, I dare ya.)

Arrebato (1980) - Spain's first cult film. A reclusive director named Iván Zulueta tells the story of a man's deadly obsession with the art of cinema in a modern-day, bizarre Spain, anticipating Cronenberg's Videodrome and Almodovar's films.

You might have tracked down a VHS copy of Jodorowsky's hard to find film at Comic-Con. (Producciones Panicas)

Back in the '90s one of my favorite things to do at the San Diego Comic-Con was to get my hands on plenty of fantastic genre movies. Right before the rise of DVD and after the death of Laser Discs, the Con was that unique place to get your rare, obscure movie fix. I remember getting El Topo and The Holy Mountain VHS tapes at $25 apiece, a bargain considering the hard-to-find collector's items these legendary Alejandro Jodorowsky finds were. That's when Comic-Con was about even more than comics or about huge studios presentations. Independent distributors were part of the act too with crazy and fun oddities such as The Star Wars Holiday Special or Roger Corman's lost classic The Fantastic 4: The Movie. You can't go wrong with titles like that!