The Scariest Things is proud to announce the winners of the Best of the Horror Genre for 2018! We honor all the films, big and small from the year that was.

The Oscar nominations just got announced last week, and despite all the wonderful offerings that they could have picked from, they pretty much gave the genre the shaft. No Toni Collete? Come on! How about make up for Suspiria? No? More Kids table for you, horror films!

It’s sad. I really love awards shows, and I do have a love/hate relationship with the Academy Awards, but as the saying goes, if you can’t beat em, try beating them again until they are a bloody pulp on the sidewalk. Wait, no? That’s not the saying?

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Well, we were wise to the ways of mainstream Hollywood and came up with The Thingy Awards a few weeks back, and some of our favorite people got involved in the voting. So it’s up to us to do the genre proud!

And in order to do so, we’re getting the band back together! Several of our Top 100 jurors came back for this, and a fair bit of new blood to boot.

Now, to be fair, we let our esteemed filmmakers stump for their own films, but The Scariest Things nominated them because we thought their films were awesome! But, in order to judge scary, you need to know scary, and these judges are not the scariest, but the smartest people for the job!

The Scariest Things Crew:

• Mike Campbell
• Liz Williams
• Robert Zilbauer
• Amy Faust
• Eric Li (hello!)

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Our esteemed film makers!

• Marc Martinez Jordan (Framed)
• Chris McInroy (We Summoned a Demon)
• Al Loughler (The Dollmaker)
• Ryan Barger and Katie Akana (The Hamster)
• F.C. Rabbath (A Brilliant Monster)
• Danny Gosser (Immortal Macabre)
• Pawel Lukomski (Folk Tales)

The Festival Folks and Industry Insiders!

• Max Federman (Wizard World)
• Gwen Callahan (The Portland Horror Film Festival, HP Lovecraft Film Festival)
• Justin Harlan (Buried Alive Film Festival)
• Jessica Safavimehr (Fangoria)

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The horror press!

• David Day (Horror Movie Talk Podcast)
• Bryce Hanson (Horror Movie Talk Podcast)
• Joseph Perry (Diabolique, Ghastly Grinning, Gruesome Magazine)
• Luca Pincelli (Horror World and Reviews)

Our Patreon Patrons! (Thank you SO MUCH!)

• Sharon Yablon
• Nathan Tice
• Ian Parker
• Matt Howl

A horror movie actress!

• Marsha Fee Berger (St. Agatha)

Our most passionate Scariest Things supporter!

• Tom Carter

And last, but certainly not least, the most knowledgable horror fan in existence:

• Jeff Dean (The Portland Horror Trivia Massacre)

We’ll post the results in a bit… but if you want to know who won NOW, you’ll have to listen to the Podcast!

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