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

“Obsession” led this year’s Fangoria Chainsaw Awards with the most amount of wins, taking home five awards including Best Director for Curry Barker and Best Lead Performance for Inde Navarrette.

Celebrating achievements in horror film, television and gaming, the fan-voted awards premiered Sunday on Shudder and were hosted by Devon Sawa (“Final Destination,” “Chucky”). Among the night’s most stand-out moments were “Insidious” star Lin Shaye presenting the final award of the evening for “Obsession” and “Cujo” star Dee Wallace presenting the Goodest Boy award to the leading canine in “Good Boy,” Nova Scotia retriever Indy.

“Like the genre it honors, the true fun of the Chainsaw Awards is that we have the audience’s permission to push the envelope. Horror fans not only want to celebrate the films and individuals who kept them watching, but they want to do it in a manner befitting the thing they love,” said Michael Varrati, who wrote and directed the ceremony. “That’s why we can present a special award to a dog who became a fan favorite or send our scream king host into a corn maze to contend with things lurking behind the rows.”

“Backrooms” earned the second highest amount of Chainsaw Awards, receiving three 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.

Special honorees of the night include Joe Bird, (“Talk to Me,” “Leviticus”) who received the Editor’s Eyeball Award to recognize his rising career in horror. A second Editor’s Eyeball Award was presented to co-presenter James A. Janisse, honoring him and Chelsea Rebecca or creating the horror YouTube channel, “Dead Meat.”

The ceremony was executive produced by Armen Aghaeian, Tara Ansley and Abhi Goel, with Amanda Grace Collins serving as lead producer and Phil Nobile Jr. and Varrati as producers.

See the full list of winners below:

Best Wide Release

• “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple”
• “Backrooms”
• “The Bride!”
• “Faces of Death”
• “Forbidden Fruits”
• “Hokum”
• WINNER: “Obsession”
• “Send Help”
• “Weapons”

Best Limited Release Movie

• WINNER: “Dust Bunny”
• “Mārama”
• “Queen of the Dead”
• “The Serpent’s Skin”
• “Touch Me”

Best Streaming Premiere

• “I Am Frankelda”
• “Influencers”
• “Mother of Flies”
• “Reflection in a Dead Diamond”
• WINNER: “V/H/S/Halloween”

Best International Movie

• “Alpha”
• WINNER: “Exit 8”
• “Mārama”
• “Reflection in a Dead Diamond”
• “The Wailing”

Best First Feature

• WINNER: “Backrooms”
• “Buffet Infinity”
• “Dust Bunny”
• “Iron Lung”
• “Queens of the Dead”

Best Lead Performance

• Zazie Beetz, “They Will Kill You”
• Jessie Buckley, “The Bride!”
• Peter Dinklage, “The Toxic Avenger”
• Chiwetel Ejiofor, “Backrooms”
• Ralph Fiennes, “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple”
• Rachel McAdams, “Send Help”
• WINNER: Inde Navarette, “Obsession”
• Toby Poser, “Mother of Flies”
• Adam Scott, “Hokum”
• Sophie Sloan, “Dust Bunny”

Best Supporting Performance

• Stacy Clausen, “Leviticus”
• Jacob Elordi, “Frankenstein”
• Elle Fanning, “Predator: Badlands”
• Regina Hall, “Scary Movie”
• David Jonsson, “The Long Walk”
• WINNER: Amy Madigan, “Weapons”
• Mads Mikkelsen, “Dust Bunny”
• Dacre Montgomery, “Faces of Death”
• Jack O’Connell, “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple”
• Sigourney Weaver, “Dust Bunny”

Best Director

• WINNER: Curry Barker, “Obsession”
• Zach Cregger, “Weapons”
• Nia DaCosta, “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple”
• Bryan Fuller, “Dust Bunny”
• Maggie Gyllenhaal, “The Bride!”

Best Screenplay

• WINNER: Curry Barker, “Obsession”
• Zach Cregger, “Weapons”
• Alex Garland, “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple”
• Isa Mazzei and Daniel Goldhaber, “Faces of Death”
• Damian McCarthy, “Hokum”

Best Cinematography

• 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”
• Colm Hogan, “Hokum”

Best Score

• Galvin Brivik, “Faces of Death”
• Alexandre Desplat, “Frankenstein”
• Hildur Guðnadóttir, “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple”
• Daniel Hart, “Mother Mary”
• WINNER: Kane Parsons and Edo Van Breemen, “Backrooms”

Best Costume Design

• 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!”
• David Tabbert, “Queens of the Dead”

Best Makeup FX

• Chris Gallaher, Nadia Stacey and Scott Stoddard, “The Bride!”
• WINNER: Mike Hill, “Frankenstein”
• Millennium FX, “The Toxic Avenger”
• John Nolan, “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple”
• Arjen Tuiten, “Lee Cronin’s The Mummy”

Best Creature FX

• Legacy Effects, “Dust Bunny”
• Studio Gillis and Wētā Workshop, “Predator: Badlands”
• Millenium FX, “Primate”
• Werner Pretorius and Amazing Ape Productions, “Backrooms”
• WINNER: Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2”

Best Documentary Feature

• “1000 Women in Horror”
• “Chain Reactions”
• WINNER: “In Search of Darkness: 1995-1999”
• “The Last Sacrifice”
• “Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror”

Best Non-Fiction TV Series or Miniseries

• “The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans”
• “Grave Conversations”
• WINNER: “The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs”
• “Monstrum”
• “Svengoolie”

Best Series

• “Alien: Earth”
• “The Creep Tapes”
• “Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen”
• “The Vampire Lestat”
• WINNER: “Widow’s Bay”

Best Video Game

• “Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake”
• “Little Nightmares III”
• “No, I’m Not A Human”
• WINNER: “Resident Evil: Requiem”
• “Silent Hill f”