‘Obsession’ And ‘Backrooms’ Win Big at Fangoria Chainsaw Awards

© Focus Features/Courtesy Everett Collection ” Obsession “led this year’s Fangoria Chainsaw Awards with the most amount of wins, taking home 5 awards consisting of Best Director for Curry Barker and Best Lead Performance for Inde Navarrette. 19659004 Commemorating accomplishments in scary movie, tv and video gaming, the fan-voted awards premiered Sunday on Shudder and were hosted by Devon Sawa (“Final Destination,” “Chucky”). Amongst the night’s most noteworthy minutes were “Insidious” star Lin Shaye providing the last award of the night for “Obsession” and “Cujo” star Dee Wallace providing the Goodest Boy award to the leading dog in “Good Boy,” Nova Scotia retriever Indy. “Like the category it honors, the real enjoyable of the Chainsaw Awards is that we have the audience’s authorization to forge ahead. Scary fans not just wish to commemorate the movies and people who kept them viewing, however they wish to do it in a way befitting the important things they enjoy,” stated Michael Varrati, who composed and directed the event. “That’s why we can provide an unique award to a canine who ended up being a fan preferred or send our scream king host into a corn labyrinth to compete with things hiding behind the rows.” 19459048 Popular on Variety “Backrooms” made the 2nd greatest quantity of Chainsaw Awards, getting 3 wins for Best First Feature, Best Cinematography and Best Score. “Widow’s Bay” took home Best Series, while “Resident Evil: Requiem” won Best Video Game. Unique honorees of the night consist of Joe Bird, (“Talk to Me,” “Leviticus”) who got the Editor’s Eyeball Award to acknowledge his increasing profession in scary. A 2nd Editor’s Eyeball Award existed to co-presenter James A. Janisse, honoring him and Chelsea Rebecca or producing the scary YouTube channel, “Dead Meat.” The event was executive produced by Armen Aghaeian, Tara Ansley and Abhi Goel, with Amanda Grace Collins working as lead manufacturer and Phil Nobile Jr. and Varrati as manufacturers. See the complete list of winners listed below: 19659010 Finest Wide Release 19659011 “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” 19659012 “Backrooms” “The Bride!” “Faces of Death” “Forbidden Fruits” 19659016 “Hokum” WINNER: “Obsession” “Send Help” “Weapons” Finest Limited Release Movie 19659021 WINNER: “Dust Bunny” “Mārama” “Queen of the Dead” “The Serpent’s Skin” “Touch Me” Finest Streaming Premiere “I Am Frankelda” 19659028 “Influencers” “Mother of Flies” “Reflection in a Dead Diamond” 19659031 WINNER: “V/H/S/ Halloween” Finest International Movie 19659033 “Alpha” 19659034 WINNER: “Exit 8” “Mārama” “Reflection in a Dead Diamond” “The Wailing” 19659038 Finest First Feature 19659039 WINNER: “Backrooms” “Buffet Infinity” 19659041 “Dust Bunny” “Iron Lung” “Queens of the Dead” 19659044 Finest Lead Performance 19659045 Zazie Beetz, “They Will Kill You” 19659046 Jessie Buckley, “The Bride!” 19659047 Peter Dinklage, “The Toxic Avenger” Chiwetel Ejiofor, “Backrooms” 19659049 Ralph Fiennes, “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” 19659050 Rachel McAdams, “Send Help” WINNER: Inde Navarette, “Obsession” Toby Poser, “Mother of Flies” 19659053 Adam Scott, “Hokum” 19659054 Sophie Sloan, “Dust Bunny” Finest Supporting Performance Stacy Clausen, “Leviticus” Jacob Elordi, “Frankenstein” Elle Fanning, “Predator: Badlands” 19659059 Regina Hall, “Scary Movie” David Jonsson, “The Long Walk” 19659061 WINNER: Amy Madigan, “Weapons” Mads Mikkelsen, “Dust Bunny” Dacre Montgomery, “Faces of Death” 19659064 Jack O’Connell, “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” 19659065 Sigourney Weaver, “Dust Bunny” Finest Director WINNER: Curry Barker, “Obsession” Zach Cregger, “Weapons” Nia DaCosta, “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” 19659070 Bryan Fuller, “Dust Bunny” 19659071 Maggie Gyllenhaal, “The Bride!” Finest Screenplay 19659073 WINNER: Curry Barker, “Obsession” 19659074 Zach Cregger, “Weapons” 19659075 Alex Garland, “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” 19659076 Isa Mazzei and Daniel Goldhaber, “Faces of Death” Damian McCarthy, “Hokum” 19659078 Finest Cinematography 19659079 Sean Bobbitt, “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” WINNER: Jeremy Cox, “Backrooms” Andrew Droz Palermo and Rina Yang, “Mother Mary” Nicole Hirsch Whitaker, “Dust Bunny” 19659083 Colm Hogan, “Hokum” 19659084 Finest Score 19659085 Galvin Brivik, “Faces of Death” Alexandre Desplat, “Frankenstein” 19659087 Hildur Guðnadóttir, “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” Daniel Hart, “Mother Mary” 19659089 WINNER: Kane Parsons and Edo Van Breemen, “Backrooms” Finest Costume Design 19659091 Olivier Bériot and Catherine Leterrier, “Dust Bunny” WINNER: Kate Hawley, “Frankenstein” Carson McColl and Gareth Pugh, “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” Sandy Powell, “The Bride!” 19659095 David Tabbert, “Queens of the Dead” Finest Makeup FX Chris Gallaher, Nadia Stacey and Scott Stoddard, “The Bride!” WINNER: Mike Hill, “Frankenstein” 19659099 Centuries FX, “The Toxic Avenger” 19659100 John Nolan, “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” Arjen Tuiten, “Lee Cronin’s The Mummy” 19659102 Finest Creature FX Tradition Effects, “Dust Bunny” Studio Gillis and Wētā Workshop, “Predator: Badlands” 19659105 Millenium FX, “Primate” 19659106 Werner Pretorius and Amazing Ape Productions, “Backrooms” WINNER: Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” Finest Documentary Feature 19659109 “1000 Women in Horror” “Chain Reactions” 19659111 WINNER: 19659112 “In Search of Darkness: 1995-1999” “The Last Sacrifice” “Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror” 19659115 Finest Non-Fiction Television Series or Miniseries 19659116 “The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans” “Grave Conversations” WINNER: “The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs” 19659119 “Monstrum” “Svengoolie” Finest Series 19659122 “Alien: Earth” 19659123 “The Creep Tapes” “Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen” “The Vampire Lestat” 19659126 WINNER: “Widow’s Bay” Finest Video Game 19659128 “Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake” 19659129 “Little Nightmares III” 19659130 “No, I’m Not A Human” WINNER: “Resident Evil: Requiem” 19659132 “Silent Hill f” Finest Kill 19659134 Editor’s Eyeball Award Joe Bird James A. Janisse and Chelsea Rebecca, “Dead Meat” 19659137 Chainsaw Award for Goodest Boy 19659138 19459047 19459047 19459047 19659142 19459047 19459047 19659144