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First Annual Reaper Awards Winners Announced
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
Curry Barker’s Obsession has been on a generational run at the box office these last several weeks, with the incredible word-of-mouth driving the box office totals higher and higher and higher with each passing week. After a debut weekend of $17 million, Obsession made a whopping $23 million in its second weekend, and then scared up $26.4 million in its third weekend. In its fourth weekend, Obsession just scared up another $25.6 million in the U.S.!
Deadline notes in a report this morning, “Obsession reps the biggest fourth weekend ever for a horror movie ahead of 1999’s Blair Witch Project which did $24.3M.”
Worldwide, Obsession is now the highest grossing movie in history for Focus Features. The current worldwide total is $224.7 million, while the domestic total is $152.1 million.
That makes Obsession now the highest grossing horror movie of 2026, far exceeding the $207.9 million worldwide total ($121.9 million domestically) of Scream 7 earlier this year!
Yes, the highest grossing horror movie of 2026 is an ORIGINAL HORROR MOVIE!
From A24 and director Kane Parsons, Backrooms is already nipping at the heels of that record after just a couple weeks in release. The current domestic total of Backrooms is $135 million, while the worldwide total is now sitting at a very healthy $212.6 million. That means Backrooms has also already surpassed Scream 7, and may soon pass Obsession as well.
The best part? The production budget for Obsession was just $750,000, with Focus Features acquiring the film for a reported $15 million. Even when you factor in the marketing spend and the fact that theaters get their own sizable cut, this one is a MASSIVE win for Focus.
In Curry Barker’s theatrical debut Obsession, after breaking the mysterious One Wish Willow to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.
Inde Navarrette (“Superman & Lois”) and Michael Johnston (“Teen Wolf”) star.
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