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Time to Vote for This Year’s Reaper Awards
Consumer online voting is now under way for the Second Annual Reaper Awards, honoring the best horror/thriller titles on DVD and Blu-ray. Horror fans can vote for their favorite discs from the past year, as well as vote on which titles they are most looking forward to in the coming months, through October 1st at the official Home Media Magazine website or on the official Reaper Awards website. The awards are presented by Home Media Magazine and Dread Central. More info inside.Grimmy winners will be celebrated October 12th at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with a red carpet, pre-show cocktail party and dinner, followed by an awards show hosted by Dread Central’s Uncle Creepy.
Winners of the “Grimmys” will receive handcrafted Grim Reaper statuettes designed and sculpted by Joe Sena, president of SphereWerx LLC, parent company of the FearWerx horror and EMCE Toy brands. The statuettes were cast by Paul Clarke of EMCE Toys and hand-painted and assembled by Sena.
Among the celebrities scheduled to attend the event are independent filmmaker/producer/legend Roger Corman (the original Piranha), Sarah Butler (Anchor Bay’s upcoming I Spit on Your Grave theatrical remake), Danielle Harris (Hatchet II, Rob Zombie’s Halloween and Halloween 2, ), Kristina Klebe (Rob Zombie¹s Halloween), producer Peter Block (Saw, Frozen, John Carpenter’s The Ward), director Mick Garris (“Masters of Horror”), director Adam Green (Frozen, Hatchet II), producer Dan Farrands (The Haunting in Connecticut, co-director of Never Sleep Again) and director Tim Sullivan (“Scream Queens”,
2001 Maniacs).
Titles were submitted by participating studios with the field of nominees narrowed by a panel of horror experts and DVD reviewers. Horror experts participating as judges include Steve “Uncle Creepy” Barton from Dread Central; Brad “Mr. Disgusting” Miska of Bloody Disgusting, Shock Till You Drop‘s Ryan Turek aka “Ryan Rotten”, Staci Wilson from Horror.com, and Lawrence Raffel of FEARnet, The panel of judges also will select a “Best of Show” winner that will be announced at the ceremony.
Sponsors of the event include 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (Platinum); Anchor Bay Entertainment, FEARnet, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group (Gold); and Entertainment One, Image Entertainment, Lionsgate, MTI Home Video and Paramount Home Entertainment (Silver).
2010 Reaper Award Nominees:
The Crazies (Anchor Bay)
District 9 (Sony Pictures)
Jennifer’s Body (20th Century Fox)
Paranormal Activity (Paramount)
Trick ‘R’ Treat (Warner)
The Wolfman (Universal)
Zombieland (Sony Pictures)
Autopsy of the Dead (Zero Day)
The Children (Lionsgate)
Dante¹s Inferno (Anchor Bay)
Evil Aliens (Image)
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (CAV/1428 Films)
Parasomnia (eOne)
Someone’s Knocking at the Door (Breaking Glass)
Sutures (MTI)
Wrong Turn 3 (20th Century Fox)
Audition (Shout! Factory)
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (Paramount)
The Gate (Lionsgate)
Happy Birthday to Me (Anchor Bay)
Night of the Creeps (Sony Pictures)
After Dark Horrorfest Vol. 4 (Lionsgate)
The Hannibal Lecter Blu-ray Anthology (Fox/MGM)
Harper’s Island (Paramount/CBS)
The Icons of Horror Collection: Hammer Films (Sony Pictures)
True Blood: Season Two (HBO)
The Vengeance Trilogy (Palisades Tartan)
The William Castle Film Collection (Sony Pictures)
Albino Farm (MTI)
Grace (Anchor Bay)
Mother (Magnolia)
The Shadow Within (MTI)
Taxidermia (eOne)
The Crazies (Anchor Bay)
Daybreakers (Lionsgate)
District 9 (Sony Pictures)
Night of the Creeps (Sony Pictures)
The Stepfather (Shout! Factory)
True Blood: Season Two (HBO)
Fear Itself (Lionsgate)
Friday the 13th: The New Blood/Jason Takes Manhattan (Paramount)
The Hunger: Season 2 (eOne)
Pandorum (Anchor Bay)
Frozen (Anchor Bay)
The Human Centipede (MPI/IFC)
The Last Exorcism (Lionsgate)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) (Warner)
Predators (Fox)
The Fangoria Series (Phase 4)
Lost Boys 3: The Thirst (Warner)
Mirrors 2 (Fox)
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue (Kino Lorber)
Respire (MTI)
30 Days of Night: Dark Days (Sony Pictures)
Alien Anthology Blu-ray (Fox)
The Exorcist: Director’s Cut Blu-ray (Warner)
Psycho 50th Anniversary Blu-ray (Universal)
The Twilight Zone: Season 1-2 Blu-rays (Image)
Registration is now open online – click here for more details. Early-bird rates are available until September 28th. The awards show is currently only open to those who work in the entertainment industry.
For information on event sponsorship, contact Stephanie Prange (e-mail here) at (714) 338-6747.
Fans can also follow Reaper Awards on Twitter, and visit the Reaper Awards fan page on Facebook.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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