About this Event
COLORADO FESTIVAL OF HORROR: CLOWNS VS. WITCHES RETURNS FOR YEAR 6!
Colorado’s original, home-grown, fan-run horror convention and film festival rises again September 18–20, 2026, in its new bigger & better location, the Denver Marriott Tech Center!
Denver, CO — Colorado Festival of Horror (COFOH): Clowns vs. Witches is back for its sixth terrifying year, summoning slashers, creepy clowns, black cats, ghouls, aliens, ghosts, scary witches, and everything that goes bump in the night. September 18–20, 2026, at the Denver Marriott Tech Center (4900 S. Syracuse St., Denver, CO).
Colorado’s horror scene comes alive at COLORADO FESTIVAL OF HORROR: CLOWNS VS. WITCHES, where evil clowns grin, witches whisper, and nightmares collide! Join fans from near and far for a weekend of blood-splattered panels, twisted workshops, frightening film festival, haunted vendors, celebrity Q&As, and interactive scares, plus after-hours costume contest, trivia, tattoo competition, karaoke, midnight ghost stories, and more. From the feral laughter of clowns to the shadowed chants of witches, COFOH is the ultimate cursed circus of chaos, carnage, and fun — touch up the greasepaint, grab your spellbooks, and choose your side — Clowns vs. Witches, where the screams are just getting started.
🎬 The Reel Horrors Film Festival at COFOH is back for its second year! Last year, we showcased a terrifyingly thrilling lineup of six 45-minute short film blocks, featuring submissions from Colorado filmmakers, first-timers, international talent, and award-winners from festivals like SXSW, Fantasia Fest, and even the Academy Awards - the majority of which were World, US, or Colorado Premieres! In 2026, the festival expands to three full days of hair-raising programming, giving you the chance to meet the masterminds behind the madness and pick up insider tips during exclusive filmmaker panels. Don’t miss your chance to experience horror on the big screen like never before!
Our Guests:
- David Howard Thornton ("Art the Clown" from Terrifier franchise, The Mean One, Screamboat)
- Amelie McLain ("Little Pale Girl" from Terrifier 2, Transference, General Hospital)
- Samantha Scaffidi ("Victoria Heyes" from Terrifier, Terrifier 2, & Terrifier 3, Demon Hole)
- Joshua Leonard (The Blair Witch Project, Hatchet, Bates Motel, Unseen)
- Michael C. Williams (The Blair Witch Project, Ghost Game, The Objective, Altered)
- Adam Green (Director of Hatchet 1-3, Victor Crowley, Frozen, Holliston)
- PARRY SHEN (Hatchet 1-3, Victor Crowley, General Hospital, The Hazing, Better Luck Tomorrow)
- Tiffany Shepis-Tretta (Victor Crowley, Sharknado 2, The Hazing, Tromeo and Juliet, Model Hunger, Star Trek: Picard)
- Chiodo Bros. (Stephen Chiodo, Edward Chiodo, Charles Chiodo) (Killer Klowns From Outer Space, Critters 1-4, Team America: World Police, Elf, Stargate SG-1)
- Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, Suitable Flesh, Jakob's Wife, Body Double, Chopping Mall, From Beyond, Castle Freak, Beyond the Gates)
- Veronica Cartwright (Alien, The Birds, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Witches of Eastwick)
- Kelsey Livengood aka Mischief the Clown (The Dead Place, Clown Motel 2-3, Night of the Dead Sorority Babes, Babezilla 2)
- The Enigma Live (The X-Files, Firecracker)
- Filmmaker Anthony Cousins (Frogman, Frogman Returns, Scare Package)
- Filmmaker Aurelio Voltaire (The Demonatrix, Nosferatu, Model Hunger)
- Horror Author Stephen Graham Jones (The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is A Chainsaw, I Was A Teenage Slasher, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Earthdivers, True Believers)
- Horror Author Jon Bassoff (The Memory Ward, Corrosion, Beneath Cruel Waters, The Drive-Thru Crematorium)
- Horror Author Mario Acevedo (The Nymphos of Rocky Flats, Steampunk Banditos, Cats In Quarantine, University of Doom, Denver Noir, It Came From the Multiplex)
- Horror Author Christina Bergling (Savages, Screechers, Red Walls, The Waning, The Rest Will Come, Followers)
- Horror Author Matt Strollo (The Crimson Traveler debut novel)
- Horror Author Sam Knight (Chunky Monkey Pupu, Son of Igor, Planet of the Apes: Tales From the Forbidden Zone, Permutations: A Well World Mosaic Novel)
- Badge Artists Thane Frederick Benson & Alyssa Leischer (Alystrations)
- Paranormal investigators Bryan Bonner & Bob Lewis of Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society
- Horror cosplay personality Colleen Cole
- Jack Hanley & Shay Wescott with the COFOH Presents: Reel Horrors Film Fest organizers Jack Hanley, Shay Westcott, Bryan Bonner, and Art Zamarripa
- Hollywood Concept Artist Xander Smith (Scream Queens, American Horror Story, The Greatest Showman, Godzilla vs. Kong, Agatha: All Along)
3-Day Weekend and Single Day tickets available NOW!
Colorado Festival of Horror 2026: Clowns vs. Witches includes the following spine-tingling activities:
- The Death Dealers Room for the macabre, hosting a menagerie of artists and vendors selling their creepy wares
- Engrossing horror actors with autographs, selfies, photo ops, merchandise, Q&As and film screenings
- Renowned horror comic book writers and artists
- Delightfully fiendish panels, workshops, and Monster Main Events
- The faint-inducing Gore Galore Costume Extravaganza contest
- The Monstrous Tattoo Competition, Hosted by The Enigma Live
- 3-Day Reel Horrors Film Fest
- After-Hours activities for haunting fun like Horror Trivia, Karaoke, Lip Sync Battle, Midnight Ghost Stories, and Drawn In Blood Drawing Competition 6
- Specially crafted beer, wine, mead, and hot sauce!
- Exclusive Colorado Festival of Horror: Clowns vs. Witches merchandise
- Exciting licensed merchandise from sponsor Bit Bot Media plus a signing of the limited-to-50 TRUE BELIEVERS #3 comic (Barbara Crampton cover) with Special Guest Barbara Crampton in-person and Stephen Graham Jones
- Chills and thrills compliments of Terror in the Corn, the #1 haunt in the country, plus a signing for the Terror In the Corn #3 comic book premiere
- Forensic Pathology presentation & "Devil In the Trunk" indie film panel from sponsor Six Feet Under Horror Fest
- Upcoming news on a the "Terror in the Palm of Your Hand" SHIVER app, coming soon from Shiver Vertical
- Monsters throughout the hotel, courtesy of Distortions Unlimited
- Dedicated, horror-loving sponsors
- An eerily hospitable hotel venue with rooms, pool, restaurant and bar
- A haunting ambiance for fans of everything horror.
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COFOH Entertainment LLC, presents the Colorado Festival of Horror: Clowns vs. Witches event highlighting the horror genre, and all that it bleeds. COFOH is a platform for the community to unite over the love of horror and everything that creeps in the night!
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Denver Marriott Tech Center, 4900 South Syracuse Street, Denver, United States
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