2015 Reaper Awards Nominees Announced; Fan Vote Now Open!
If you’re a regular Dread Central reader, you’ll know that each year we co-sponsor the Reaper Awards with Home Media Magazine, and per usual, Labor Day is when the voting kicks off. We have some quite worthy nominees this year so be sure to read on for the details and then vote for your favorites!
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2015 Reaper Awards – Nominees and Voting Details:
Online voting is under way for the 2015 Reaper Awards and will run through October 9. The ballot can be accessed through HomeMediaMagazine.com/ReaperVote, HomeMediaAwards.com, or ReaperAwards.com.
The Reaper Awards, honoring the best horror and thriller titles of the past year on DVD and Blu-ray Disc, are presented by Home Media Magazine and DreadCentral.com. Eligible titles were released between August 1, 2014, and July 31, 2015. Winners will be announced October 19.
Fans can select their favorites from the past year in several categories. Titles were submitted by participating studios. If you believe a title is missing from the list, it may be due to the studio not submitting it for consideration. Feel free to write in un-nominated titles in the space provided. There is also a blank on the ballot for you to pick the Best Horror/Thriller Title of the past year.
Results of the consumer vote will be combined with the selections of a judging panel of horror experts and home entertainment reviewers. The panel of judges will also select a Title of the Year.
Choice Theatrical Cut (films that debuted in theaters within the past year or so before being released on DVD or Blu-ray)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Fox)
It Follows (Anchor Bay)
Oculus (Fox)
As Above So Below (Universal)
Best Limited Release/Direct-to-Video Title
Wrong Turn 6 (Fox)
The Possession of Michael King (Anchor Bay)
Open Windows (Cinedigm)
ABCs of Death 2 (Magnolia)
Horns (Anchor Bay)
Best Title From the Vault (Re-release or Catalog Title)
Mad Max — Collector’s Edition (Shout! Factory)
Pumpkinhead — Collector’s Edition (Shout! Factory)
Escape From New York — Collector’s Edition (Shout! Factory)
Alien: 35th Anniversary Edition (Fox)
Nightbreed — Director’s Cut (Shout! Factory)
Contamination (Arrow)
Phantom of the Paradise — Collector’s Edition (Shout! Factory)
Best Collection
Leprechaun: The Complete Movie Collection (Lionsgate)
Halloween: The Complete Collection (Anchor Bay)
Gamera: The Showa & Heisei Collection (Mill Creek)
Best TV Collection
TV Guide Spotlight: TV’s Spookiest Halloween Episodes (Mill Creek)
Spartacus: The Complete Series (Anchor Bay)
True Blood: The Complete Series (HBO)
The Strain: Season 1 (Fox)
The Walking Dead: Season 4 (Anchor Bay)
Best Indie or Foreign Disc
The Babadook (Shout! Factory)
V/H/S: Viral (Magnolia)
Open Windows (Cinedigm)
It Follows (Anchor Bay)
Best Extras
Phantom of the Paradise — Collector’s Edition (Shout! Factory)
The Walking Dead: Season 4 (Anchor Bay)
Nightbreed — Director’s Cut (Shout! Factory)
Pumpkinhead — Collector’s Edition (Shout! Factory)
Alien: 35th Anniversary Edition (Fox)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Fox)
Spider Baby (Arrow)
Leprechaun: The Complete Movie Collection (Lionsgate)
True Blood: The Complete Series (HBO)
Best Box Art
Nightbreed — Director’s Cut (Shout! Factory)
The Drownsman (Anchor Bay)
Phantom of the Paradise — Collector’s Edition (Shout! Factory)
Contamination (Arrow)
True Blood: Season 7 (HBO)
Society (Arrow)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Fox)
The Possession of Michael King (Anchor Bay)
Escape From New York — Collector’s Edition (Shout! Factory)
As Above So Below (Universal)
Best Packaging
Planet of the Apes: Caesar’s Warrior Collection (Fox)
The Babadook Limited Edition (Shout! Factory)
Nightbreed — Director’s Cut (Shout! Factory)
The Walking Dead: Season 4 Limited Edition — Tree Walker (Anchor Bay)
Spartacus: The Complete Series Limited Edition — Gladiator Statue (Anchor Bay)
Society (Arrow)
Best Big Bad
The Man-Eating Vagina — “V/H/S: Viral” (Magnolia)
It — “It Follows” (Anchor Bay)
Best Scream Queen
Ginger (Tara Buck) — “True Blood: The Complete Series” (HBO)
Jay (Maika Monroe) — “It Follows” (Anchor Bay)
Zoe (Olivia Wilde) — “The Lazarus Effect” (Fox)
Best Kill
Time Index 0:14:20 to 0:15:00 — Axe beheading — “ABCs of Death 2” (Magnolia)
Time Index 0:43:30 to 0:44:00 — Marta devours husband with man-eatng vagina — “V/H/S: Viral” (Magnolia)
Time Index 0:04:15 to 0:04:45 — Barbed-wire biker — “Wrong Turn 6” (Fox)
Time Index 0:28:15 to 0:30:15 — Desiree — “Muck” (Anchor Bay)
Time Index 0:06:45 to 0:07:00 — Dead Assassin Takes Out Target — “ABCs of Death 2” (Magnolia)
Time Index 1:35:30 to 1:37:05 — Kaylie gets impaled — “Oculus” (Fox)
Best Line of Dialogue
Koba: “Caesar Weak!” Caesar: “Koba Weaker!” — “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” (Fox)
“Tell you what. Your god and my god can go to a motel and have a circle jerk … I’ll be in Hell having a 3-way with the Devil” – Pam — True Blood S7 (HBO)
Zoe: “I went somewhere.” Frank: “That was a dream!” Zoe: “No, it was hell!” — “The Lazarus Effect” (Fox)
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