{"id":853857,"date":"2026-09-20T02:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T02:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/853857\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T02:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T02:02:09","slug":"topeka-film-festival-welcomes-spooky-season-early-with-sci-fi-horror-screenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/853857\/","title":{"rendered":"Topeka film festival welcomes spooky season early with sci-fi, horror screenings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A film festival in Topeka gave locals an early look at sci-fi and horror movies ahead of the fall season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashandbashfestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.slashandbashfestival.com\/\">Slash and Bash Film Fest<\/a> has been showing films at Cosmos Court in downtown Topeka for over 20 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The fest features seven movies, a costume contest and a short film contest for anyone who attends a screening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">While some more widely known movies will appear on screen, the owner of the film fest, Keith Van Sickle, said the purpose of the event is to show people lesser-known horror and sci-fi films.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI think that helps out the whole movie society, because there are so many movies that aren\u2019t recognized that we show here, and that is something that I love to do,\u201d Van Sickle said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Slash and Bash ends Saturday, Sept. 19 at 11:30 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cosmos Court will continue to show free movies every Monday for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">13 NEWS\u2019 Aja Carter contributed to this article. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A film festival in Topeka gave locals an early look at sci-fi and horror&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[294989,53414,2858,88,32353,6842,3729,360531,206,12226,360529,360530,46004,12531,77211],"class_list":["post-853857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-13-news","tag-cosmos","tag-court","tag-entertainment","tag-festival","tag-horror","tag-local","tag-movie-lovers","tag-movies","tag-sci-fi","tag-slash-and-bash-film-fest","tag-spooky-season","tag-topeka","tag-watch","tag-wibw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}