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It’s finally time. First you all picked the nominees, and now we have your top picks for the first ever Bloody Disgusting Reader’s Choice Awards.  This is the result of tens of thousands of votes from horror fans around the world.  For everyone who predicted Stephen King’s IT would walk away with things, you weren’t far off. But there were also some surprises and it was really exciting to watch the votes pour in and see how the horror community felt about such a great year of horror.  Some of these races were really close so we included a breakdown of the votes for each category by percentage.

And the winners are…

Best Horror Film – IT

Best Actor in Film – Daniel Kaluuya for Get Out

Best TV Show – Stranger Things

Best Actor in TV – Alfonso Herrera for The Exorcist

Best Kill – IT, Pennywise attacks Georgie

Best Villain – Pennywise, IT

Best Final Girl – Beverly Marsh, IT

Best Scare – Scarecrow comes to life in Annabelle

Best Indie Film – The Void

Best Video Game – Friday the 13th: The Game

Best Comic or Graphic Novel – The Walking Dead

Thanks to everyone who voted, here’s to a great year of horror in 2018! Look back at all of the nominees presented by Linda Blair, Doug Bradley, Kane Hodder, Dee Snider, Felissa Rose, Steve Dash, the Soska Sisters, Diora Baird, Charlie Benante, and The Horror Show HERE and enjoy some outtakes and see the amazing team that helped to put this all together below. Special thanks to Survey Monkey and sponsors Days of the Dead and World of Death!

Winners of the 2017 Bloody Disgusting Reader’s Choice Awards will receive this custom hand made award created by talented Mike Skaggs.

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Legendary Grimdark ‘Warhammer 40,000’ Artist John Blanche Has Passed Away at 78

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In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).

Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.

While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.

The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.

Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.

We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.

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