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Calling All Horror Fans: It’s Time to Vote for The Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
Take advantage of this opportunity to make your voice heard and vote for the 2023 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards!
In 1992, Silence of the Lambs won “the big five” Academy Awards: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture.
It is the only horror movie ever to receive this prestigious honor. It’s the only horror movie ever to receive the award for Best Picture.
Meanwhile, horror gems like Hereditary, Midsommar, Malignant, The Invisible Man, Doctor Sleep, It Follows, and Oculus have floated by without a second look.
Let them keep their Oscars.
The award night explicitly made for horror fans is on the horizon.
What are the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards?
The Fangoria Chainsaw Awards began in 1992, and annually honor some of the best horror releases and performances the previous year had to offer in one spectacular show.
It is an opportunity for horror fans to come together while we cross our fingers that our favorites will receive the recognition they deserve.
It also is a time when we can reflect on the year’s horror and be informed about what we may have missed.
But, right now, it is the opportunity to make our voices heard.
Vote for Your Favorite Scary Movies from 2022
Maybe you’re like me and want to yell from the rooftops that Barbarian should win Best Wide Release. Perhaps you want to vote for anything but Barbarian because you don’t understand how anyone liked it.
Or maybe you’re far flung from this conversation and just want Pearl to win – even though we know Nope will likely bring it all home.
Nope Seems Poised for a Big Win
After all, out of the 18 nomination categories, Nope is an option in 9 of them, including Best Director, Best Score, Best Cinematography, Best Lead Performance – where Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer are nominees – and Best Supporting Performance, where Steven Yeun is nominated.
Ari Aster had clean sweeps of his own in the past, with six Chainsaw Award wins in 2019 for Hereditary and five in 2020 for Midsommar. It will be interesting to see if Jordan Peele can sweep the board with potentially record-breaking wins.
If any scary movie is enough of a cinematic masterpiece to warrant one of those little gold statuettes from the Academy, many of us can agree; it’s Nope. Since it was (un)surprisingly snubbed, horror fans will undoubtedly see that it receives the accolades it deserves during Fangoria’s award show. Despite this, I am still an avid champion for Barbarian in all five of its nomination categories.
We’re All Entitled to Our Horror Opinions
I won’t lie to you; not all decisions will be easy. I hit a personal brick wall when it came time to choose between Stranger Things and Yellowjackets for Best Series.
Yellowjackets is a criminally underrated show, and I eagerly await season two’s premiere in March. But I could not stop talking about Stranger Things in 2022, so much that it would feel disingenuous not to vote for the series that captured so much of my attention.
No disrespect meant for the other nominees – Chucky, What We Do in the Shadows, and Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities – but they weren’t even on my radar. On a side note, I am disappointed that Mike Flanagan’s Midnight Club didn’t make the cut.
We all have our opinions in horror, and just as I have shared mine, it’s your opportunity to share yours.
Be a deciding voice in *the* award show for horror before voting closes on February 27th at 11:59 pm PST.
The 2023 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards are Coming Soon
An official date has yet to be announced for when the 2023 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards will air. However, it aired in May of last year and April the year before, so it’s probably safe to expect a mid-Spring release.
When you stock up on your FCA merch, don’t forget to use code HORRORPRESSLLC for 10% off your order at the Fangoria shop!
Go vote now, and make your voice heard before time runs out!
Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone, the Holiday season has REALLY kicked off. We’ve covered our fair share of Holiday horror from underappreciated gems like Christmas Bloody Christmas and Dial Code Santa Claus to Black Christmas and Krampus! In the hopes of spreading some Holiday cheer (and fear!), the curator of all things Horror Press, James-Michael, has decided to bring the cloven-foot killer that is Krampus into your homes! But this isn’t your ordinary Krampus…this Krampus is chock full of special features and gift wrapped in 4K!
If you haven’t seen Krampus, then what are you doing with your life? For those unfamiliar, Krampus follows a large family gathering of frustrating people who all get snowed in three days before Christmas. One by one, the family gets picked off by Christmas-themed creatures. Sometimes, the holidays truly are killer.
Enter Our Holiday Giveaway!
How to Enter:
Step 1. Make sure to FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM!
Step 2. LIKE the giveaway post!
Step 3. TAG A FRIEND who you think Krampus should visit!
The winner will be announced on Monday, December 15th and notified via direct message. If the winner does not respond within 24 hours, we’ll randomly select another winner.
WHAT YOU’LL WIN
What’s included in Krampus: The Naughty Cut? Let’s unwrap it and look:
- Audio commentary with director/co-writer Michael Dougherty, and co-writers Todd Casey and Zach Shields
- NEW interviews with Michael Dougherty, Visual Effects Artist Richard Taylor, Actors Allison Tolman, David Koechner and Emjay Anthony, Co-Writer/Co-Producer Todd Casey and more…
- Alternate ending
- Deleted/extended scenes
- Gag reel
- Krampus Comes Alive! – Five-part featurette including Dougherty’s Vision, The Naughty Ones: Meet the Cast, Krampus and his Minions, Practical Danger, and Inside the Snowglobe: Production Design
- Behind the scenes at WETA Workshop: Krampus
- And more!
So head over to our Instagram, follow our account, like our giveaway post, and tag a friend who you think Krampus should go visit!
Good luck!
**Giveaway entries are limited to addresses in the United States.**
**All entries must be 18 or older to enter**
Enter Our Halloween Giveaway!
How to Enter:
Step 1. Make sure to FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AND JOIN OUR FACEBOOK GROUP!
Step 2. LIKE AND SHARE the giveaway post!
Step 3. This is the most important step, email us at contact@horrorpress.com with your FULL Facebook name (so we can verify you’re in the group) and who your favorite character is from the Texas Chainsaw franchise.
**Giveaway entries are limited to addresses in the United States.**
**All entries must be 18 or older to enter**
What You’ll Win
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) Limited Edition 4K UHD from Arrow Video
- 4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
- Original DTS-HD MA 7.1 and 5.1 surround audio and lossless stereo audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Brand new audio commentary with Dread Central co-founder Steve “Uncle Creepy” Barton and co-host of The Spooky Picture Show podcast Chris MacGibbon
- Archival audio commentary with director Marcus Nispel, producer Michael Bay, executive producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form and New Line Cinema founder Robert Shaye
- Archival audio commentary with Marcus Nispel, director of photography Daniel Pearl, production designer Greg Blair, art director Scott Gallager, sound supervisor Trevor Jolly and composer Steve Jablonsky
- Archival audio commentary with Marcus Nispel, Michael Bay, writer Scott Kosar, Brad Fuller, Andrew Form and actors Jessica Biel, Erica Leerhsen, Eric Balfour Jonathan Tucker, Mike Vogel and Andrew Bryniarski
- Reimagining a Classic, a brand new interview with director Marcus Nispel
- Shadows of Yesteryear, a brand new interview with cinematographer Daniel Pearl
- The Lost Leatherface, a brand new interview with actor Brett Wagner
- Masks and Massacres, a brand new interview with makeup effects artist Scott Stoddard
- Chainsaw Symphony, a brand new interview with composer Steve Jablonsky
- Chainsaw Redux: Making A Massacre, a making-of documentary
- Ed Gein: The Ghoul of Plainfield, an in-depth look at the infamous killer who inspired the character of Leatherface
- Severed Parts, a look at the cutting room floor and some of the scenes excised from the final edit
- Deleted scenes including an alternate opening and ending
- Screen tests for Jessica Biel, Eric Balfour and Erica Leerhsen
- Behind-the-scenes featurette
- Cast and crew interviews
- Theatrical trailers and TV spots
- Concept art galleries
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Aaron Lea
- Double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Aaron Lea
- Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Michael Gingold
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