2024 Chainsaw Award Winners Announced
Fangoria has announced the winners in the annual Chainsaw Awards, honoring the best horror movies over the past eighteen months.
“Though the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards have been around for over 30 years, our current age of horror has delivered a high volume of next-level entertainment the likes of which fans have never seen,” said Fangoria’s Editor-in-Chief Phil Nobile Jr. “Fans will have their work cut out for them, as choosing the best of the best from this genre has truly never been more difficult – or more fun.”
Winners are marked in red.
Achievement in Non-Fiction
- Amityville: An Origin Story
- The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Season 5
- The Enfield Poltergeist
- The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs
- Svengoolie
Best Cinematography
- The First Omen – Aaron Morton
- I Saw the TV Glow – Eric K. Yue
- In A Violent Nature – Pierce Derks
- Infinity Pool – Karim Hussain
- Poor Things – Robbie Ryan
Best Costume Design
- The First Omen – Paco Delgado
- Immaculate – Lisa Crescioli
- Late Night With the Devil – Steph Hooke
- Lisa Frankenstein – Meagan McLaughlin
- Poor Things – Holly Waddington
Best Creature FX
- Evil Dead Rise – Adam Johansen and Damian Martin, Odd Studio
- Five Nights at Freddy’s – Jim Henson’s Creature Shop
- Infested – Thierry Onillon and Léo Ewald
- The Last Voyage of the Demeter – Göran Lundström
- M3GAN – Adrien Morot and Kathy Tse, Morot FX Studios
Best Director
- Brandon Cronenberg – Infinity Pool
- Lee Cronin – Evil Dead Rise
- Danny and Michael Philippou – Talk To Me
- Demián Rugna – When Evil Lurks
- Arkasha Stevenson – The First Omen
Best Documentary Feature
- Dario Argento Panico
- The Legacy of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre
- Satan Wants You
- Sharksploitation
- We Kill For Love
Best First Feature
- The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
- Birth/Rebirth
- It Lives Inside
- Skinamarink
- Stopmotion
Best International Movie
- The Coffee Table
- Exhuma
- Infested
- Huesera: The Bone Woman
- When Evil Lurks
Best Lead Performance
- Tobin Bell – Saw X
- David Dastmalchian – Late Night with the Devil
- Kaitlyn Dever – No One Will Save You
- Nell Tiger Free – The First Omen
- Kathryn Newton – Lisa Frankenstein
- Lupita Nyong’o – A Quiet Place: Day One
- Emma Stone – Poor Things
- Lily Sullivan – Evil Dead Rise
- Sydney Sweeney – Immaculate
- Sophie Wilde – Talk to Me
Best Limited Release
- Cobweb
- Enys Men
- I Saw the TV Glow
- The Outwaters
- Suitable Flesh
Best Makeup FX
- Abigail – Liz Byrne, Paul Byrne & Matthew Smith
- Evil Dead Rise – Luke Polti and Tristan Lucas
- In A Violent Nature – Steven Kostanski
- Talk To Me – Bec Buratto, Paul Katte and Nick Nicolaou
- When Evil Lurks – Marcos Berta
Best Score
- Evil Dead Rise – Stephen McKeon
- The First Omen – Mark Korven
- Godzilla Minus One – Naoki Satô
- I Saw the TV Glow – Alex G
- Infinity Pool – Tim Hecker
Best Screenplay
- The First Omen – Arkasha Stevenson, Tim Smith and Keith Thomas; story by Ben Jacoby
- Infinity Pool – Brandon Cronenberg
- Late Night With the Devil – Colin and Cameron Cairnes
- M3GAN – Akela Cooper; story by Akela Cooper and James Wan
- Talk To Me – Danny Philippou and Bill Hinzman
Best Streaming Premiere
- No One Will Save You
- Sick
- Totally Killer
- V/H/S/85
- Where the Devil Roams
Best Supporting Performance
- Dave Bautista – Knock at the Cabin
- Joe Bird – Talk To Me
- Nicolas Cage – Renfield
- Mia Goth – Infinity Pool
- Kathryn Newton – Abigail
- Bridgette Lundy Paine – I Saw the TV Glow
- Dewayne Perkins – The Blackening
- Dan Stevens – Abigail
- Alyssa Sutherland – Evil Dead Rise
- Alisha Weir – Abigail
Best Television Series
- Chucky
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- Interview with the Vampire
- The Last of Us
- Yellowjackets
Best Video Game (new category)
- Alan Wake 2
- Dead Space Remake
- Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game
- Resident Evil 4 Remake
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Best Wide Release Movie
- Abigail
- Evil Dead Rise
- The First Omen
- Godzilla Minus One
- Infinity Pool
- Late Night With the Devil
- M3GAN
- Satanic Hispanics
- Talk To Me
- When Evil Lurks
Additional awards:
Best Kill (write-in award): In a Violent Nature – Yoga Kill
Best Felissa Rose Movie: Craving
Editorial Eye on the Future (tie): Dewayne Perkins, Vision Video (Dusty Gannon)