Podcasts
Celebrating the Best Horror of 2023 with the Hereditary Awards Winners! [Horror Queers Podcast]
Back in December, Trace and I opened up voting in the fifth annual “Hereditaries” (named after Toni Collette’s Hereditary omission), our version of the horror Oscars. Our supporters on Patreon helped us narrow down the shortlist in 20 categories and then the public at large, including folks on this site, voted on the winners throughout December 2023.
Going into the voting, blockbusters like Evil Dead Rise (7 nominations) and Saw X (6 nominations) led the nominations, alongside quiet streaming sleepers like Cobweb (8 nominations) and non-English language classic When Evil Lurks (5 nominations).
Now it’s time to reveal who won in the following categories:
- Best Wide Release
- Best Indie Release
- Best Under The Radar Film
- Best Non-English Language Horror Film
- Best Horror TV Show
- Best Queer Horror
- Best First Feature Director
- Best Director
- Best Lead Performance
- Best Supporting Performance
- Best Ensemble
- MVP 2023
- Best Creature Design
- Best Score – New for 2023
- Best Villain
- Best Sequence
- Most Painful (Non-Fatal) Injury
- Best Ending
- Best Kill
We received plenty of feedback from the 900+ voters that the toughest category to vote for was Best Sequence, which makes sense considering the nominees:
- Ambulance Attack – Cocaine Bear
- Peephole – Evil Dead Rise
- Ginza Attack – Godzilla Minus One
- M3GAN’s Dance – M3GAN
- Hell Montage – The Outwaters
- Valentina’s Trap – Saw X
- Ladder – Scream VI
- Raft Attack – Sick
- Head Bash – Talk To Me
- Dog Attack – When Evil Lurks
Naturally since we are a queer horror podcast, Trace and I were delighted to shine a spotlight on the exceptional breadth of LGBTQIA nominees this year (PS: we have episodes on all of these titles except Summoning Sylvia, in case you’re interested in how they engage with queerness):
- Attachment
- birth/rebirth
- Huesera: The Bone Woman
- Jagged Mind
- The Latent Image
- My Animal
- Summoning Sylvia
- Swallowed
But enough from us: go listen to the episode, which features breakdowns of who should win vs who we believe will win, as well as the voting percentages in each category (two were literally so close that the winner was decided by 0.1% and 0.8% of the vote!).
The Halloweenies celebrate Alien Day (LV-4/26) with a Resurrection!
Join co-hosts Dan Caffrey, McKenzie Gerber, Michael Roffman, and Justin Gerber as they awaken from a cryosleep of 200 years aboard the Auriga. In the first of two episodes dedicated to Alien Resurrection, the gang talks the development, the production, Joss Whedon, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and what this all this might be like under Danny Boyle’s direction.
Stream the first of two episodes below, and stay tuned for Pt. on May 3rd. Later in May, they will also cover both 2004’s Alien vs. Predator and 2007’s Alien vs. Predator: Requiem.
Subscribe to the Halloweenies via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, RadioPublic, and RSS. New to the Halloweenies? Catch up with the gang by revisiting their essential episodes on past franchises such as Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Scream, The Evil Dead, and Chucky! This year? They’re looking to the stars with the Alien franchise.
You can also become a member of their Patreon, The Rewind, for hilariously irreverent commentaries (e.g. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Gremlins, Jaws), one-off deep dives on your favorite rentals (e.g. Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Invasion of the Body Snatchers ), and even spinoffs like their recent run Fortune & Glory: An Indiana Jones Podcast.
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