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First Annual Reaper Awards Winners Announced

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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Anchor Bay Entertainment each claimed four Grimmys at the Reaper Awards October 13, but Anchor Bay’s (incredible) Hellraiser boxed set walked away with the top prize, reports Home Media Magazine, who hosted the event alongside Dread Central. The first ever Reaper Awards honored the best horror-themed DVDs and Blu-ray Discs released between Sept. 1, 2008, and Aug. 31, 2009. A panel of judges selected nominees from a pool of studio submissions, with winners determined by an online vote held in September. Winning titles were honored with a Grimmy, a hand-painted statuette resembling the Grim Reaper. Check out a list of winners below.

The Hellraiser boxed set earned two Grimmys, for Best in Show and Best Packaging. The set came in a gold box fashioned after the Lament Configuration box from the films, and included the 20th anniversary DVDs of the first two films and the Blu-ray of the first film. The Blu-ray version of the first film also won for Best Remastering.

Sony Pictures won for Best Blu-ray for its Ghostbusters 25th anniversary re-release (an award it hardly deserves and I think Sony should do the right thing and return the Grimmy after its embarrassing transfer); Best Vampire/Werewolf film award for Underworld: Rise of the Lycans; Best Zombie film award for Quarantine; and Best Indie/Foreign for [REC], the Spanish film upon which Quarantine is based.

Best Theatrical went to Universal Studios Home Entertainment’s The Last House on the Left, a remake of a 1972 Wes Craven film.

The original Last House,/i> earned 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and MGM a Grimmy for Best Slasher. A tie in that category also yielded a Grimmy to Anchor Bay’s direct-to-video film Laid to Rest, which introduced a new horror villain to the genre: ChromeSkull.

Michael Felsher, owner of Red Shirt Pictures, a company that produces DVD special features, earned a lifetime achievement Grimmy.

2009 Reaper Award Winners:

* Best in Show: Hellraiser Box Set, Anchor Bay Entertainment
* Best Theatrical: The Last House on the Left (2009), Universal Studios Home Entertainment
* Best DTV Release: Alien Raiders, Warner Home Video
* Best Re-release: Friday the 13th: Deluxe Editions (Parts 1-6), Paramount Home Entertainment
* Best Boxed Set or TV Series: Dexter: The Complete Third Season, Paramount Home Entertainment/CBS/Showtime
* Best Indie/Foreign: [REC], Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
* Best Slasher (tie): Laid to Rest, Anchor Bay Entertainment; The Last House on the Left (1972), 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/MGM
* Best Vampire/Werewolf: Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
* Best Zombie: Quarantine, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
* Best Ghost Story: The Haunting in Connecticut, Lionsgate
* Best Packaging: Hellraiser Box Set, Anchor Bay Entertainment
* Best Re-mastering: Hellraiser, Anchor Bay Entertainment
* Best Blu-ray Disc: Ghostbusters, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
* Lifetime Achievement: Michael Felsher, Red Shirt Pictures

Horror movie fanatic who co-founded Bloody Disgusting in 2001. Producer on Southbound, V/H/S/2/3/94, SiREN, Under the Bed, and A Horrible Way to Die. Chicago-based. Horror, pizza and basketball connoisseur. Taco Bell daily. Franchise favs: Hellraiser, Child's Play, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Scream and Friday the 13th. Horror 365 days a year.

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Matilda Firth Joins the Cast of Director Leigh Whannell’s ‘Wolf Man’ Movie

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Pictured: Matilda Firth in 'Christmas Carole'

Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.

Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things),  Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.

The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).

Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.

Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.

Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.

In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.

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