The press release says it better than I will:

Film legend KAREN BLACK to make rare appearance at Toronto horror film expo

TORONTO, CANADA – Rue Morgue Magazine, in conjunction with Daniloff Productions, are thrilled to announce the addition of legendary film actor KAREN BLACK as a very special guest for the 2006 RUE MORGUE FESTIVAL OF FEAR National Horror Expo (Metro Toronto Convention Centre, the weekend of September 1-3, 2006).

“Obviously this is a huge coup for us, and I am extremely happy to be able to bring an actor of the calibre of KAREN BLACK to this year’s Festival of Fear” commented Rodrigo Gudino of Rue Morgue.

“I’m beside myself, and on behalf of Daniloff Productions I would like to share my elation associated with the Toronto appearance of film legend KAREN BLACK,” added David Daniloff of Daniloff Productions.

KAREN BLACK started studying under Lee Strasberg in New York City and has worked in a number of off-Broadway roles. Her first big film role was in “You’re a Big Boy Now” directed by Francis Ford Coppola. But the film that made her a star was “Easy Rider”, where she worked with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, and a supporting actor named Jack Nicholson. She appeared with Nicholson again the next year when they starred in the seminal classic film “Five Easy Pieces”, which garnered an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe win for Karen. Her roles have mainly consisted of waitresses, hookers and women on the edge of sanity, and her talent received another Golden Globe for “The Great Gatsby”…..

Another role for which she is well remembered is that of the jewel thief in Alfred Hitchcock’s last film, “Family Plot”. Karen was also praised as a woman terrorized by a murderous Zuni doll that comes to life in the TV cult horror movie “Trilogy of Terror”. She again won rave reviews for her roles in “Come Back to the Five and Dine Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean”, and the epic horror film “Burnt Offerings”, co-starring the late Betty Davis, Oliver Reed, and Burgess Meredith. Recently, Karen has appeared in Rob Zombie’s “House of 1000 Corpses”, “Firecracker”, with co-star and acclaimed musician Mike Patton, and most recently “Suffering Man’s Charity” from actor-director Alan Cumming.

EXCLUSIVE! Rue Morgue and Daniloff Productions are also very proud to present an exclusive intimate and interactive film career retrospective, Sunday September 3rd, 2006, aptly titled SHADES OF BLACK: An Intimate Evening With Karen Black. It will take place at Toronto’s historic Bloor Cinema. This unique event will reveal various layers of Karen Black’s film career through big-screen film montages, an on-stage interview with Karen by Richard Crouse from the popular Reel to Reel TV program and a distinctive live-from-the-floor Q & A assembly with fans. Doors open at 9:00pm, advance tickets are $20 and will be available at various Downtown Toronto retail locations. Karen will be selling and autographing the new Special Edition DVD of TRILOGY OF TERROR which includes filmed interviews with Karen and Richard Matheson.