It’s nearly that time of year again! The Fangoria Chainsaw Awards are back this Halloween season to celebrate the best achievements in horror and voting is officially open.

Fans worldwide will determine the winners, all you have to do is vote.

Cast Your Vote: https://fan.gd/vote 

Nominees were selected by a nominating body of industry tastemakers, creators, and professionals, drawing from the most impactful releases between July 2025 and June
2026.

Fangoria previews, “Leading the pack for this year’s nomination slate is 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple and Bryan Fuller’s Dust Bunny, each earning 9 nominations. Dust Bunny scored nominations across major categories including Best Limited Release, Best Director, and two nods in Best Supporting Performance for Mads Mikkelsen and Sigourney Weaver. Meanwhile, Nia DaCosta’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple demonstrated broad strength across categories, earning recognition for Best Wide Release, Director, Screenplay, Score, and Makeup FX.”

That’s only the start of the expansive nomination list.

“If there’s a theme to be found in this year’s crop of nominations, it’s that horror lovers do not and will not abide by what mainstream box office numbers decide the ‘winners’ are. The big horror hits are here, of course, but so too are fiercely independent visions that, for one reason or another, have yet to find the audience they deserve. If we can get more eyeballs on these genre gems by celebrating them at the Chainsaw Awards, that’s a win for all of us,” said FANGORIA Editor-in-Chief Phil Nobile Jr.

“One of the most rewarding parts of putting the Chainsaw Awards together every year is seeing the passion and fervor of the fans. Ultimately, they’re the ones who rally behind the nominees and make the final call,” said Michael Varrati, writer and director of the FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards. “This year’s nominees reflect a wide range of diverse stories, titles, and creatives whom horror enthusiasts have championed since our last show. I encourage fans to get out and vote, because it may well be their voice and love of fright that changes the course of horror history.”

Voting closes at 11:59 PM PT on July 15.

Winners will be revealed October 25, 2026 during the FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards broadcast on Shudder.

Official Nominees for the 2026 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards. Nominees are presented alphabetically within each category:

BEST WIDE RELEASE
●  28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
●  Backrooms
●  THE BRIDE!
●  Faces of Death
●  Forbidden Fruits
●  Hokum
●  Leviticus
●  Obsession
●  Send Help
●  Weapons

BEST LIMITED RELEASE MOVIE
●  Dust Bunny
●  Mārama
●  Queens of the Dead
●  The Serpent’s Skin
●  Touch Me

BEST STREAMING PREMIERE
●  I Am Frankelda
●  Influencers
●  Mother of Flies
●  Reflection in a Dead Diamond
●  V/H/S/Halloween

BEST INTERNATIONAL MOVIE
●  Alpha
●  Exit 8
●  Mārama
●  Reflection in a Dead Diamond
●  The Wailing

BEST FIRST FEATURE
●  Backrooms
●  Buffet Infinity
●  Dust Bunny
●  Iron Lung
●  Queens of the Dead

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
●  Zazie Beetz, They Will Kill You
●  Jessie Buckley, THE BRIDE!
●  Peter Dinklage, The Toxic Avenger
●  Chiwetel Ejiofor, Backrooms
●  Ralph Fiennes, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
●  Rachel McAdams, Send Help
●  Inde Navarette, Obsession
●  Toby Poser, Mother of Flies
●  Adam Scott, Hokum
●  Sophie Sloan, Dust Bunny

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
●  Stacy Clausen, Leviticus
●  Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
●  Elle Fanning, Predator: Badlands
●  Regina Hall, Scary Movie
●  David Jonsson, The Long Walk
●  Amy Madigan, Weapons
●  Mads Mikkelsen, Dust Bunny
●  Dacre Montgomery, Faces of Death
●  Jack O’Connell, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
●  Sigourney Weaver, Dust Bunny

BEST DIRECTOR
●  Curry Barker, Obsession
●  Zach Cregger, Weapons
●  Nia DaCosta, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
●  Bryan Fuller, Dust Bunny
●  Maggie Gyllenhaal, THE BRIDE!

BEST SCREENPLAY
●  Curry Barker, Obsession
●  Zach Cregger, Weapons
●  Alex Garland, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
●  Isa Mazzei and Daniel Goldhaber, Faces of Death
●  Damian McCarthy, Hokum

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
●  Sean Bobbitt, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
●  Jeremy Cox, Backrooms
●  Andrew Droz Palermo & Rina Yang, Mother Mary
●  Nicole Hirsch Whitaker, Dust Bunny
●  Colm Hogan, Hokum

BEST SCORE
●  Gavin Brivik, Faces of Death
●  Alexandre Desplat, Frankenstein
●  Hildur Guðnadóttir, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
●  Daniel Hart, Mother Mary
●  Kane Parsons & Edo Van Breemen, Backrooms

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
●  Olivier Bériot & Catherine Leterrier, Dust Bunny
●  Kate Hawley, Frankenstein
●  Carson McColl & Gareth Pugh, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
●  Sandy Powell, THE BRIDE!
●  David Tabbert, Queens of the Dead

BEST MAKEUP FX
●  Chris Gallaher, Nadia Stacey & Scott Stoddard, THE BRIDE!
●  Mike Hill, Frankenstein
●  Millennium FX, The Toxic Avenger
●  John Nolan, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
●  Arjen Tuiten, Lee Cronin’s The Mummy

BEST CREATURE FX
●  Legacy Effects, Dust Bunny
●  Studio Gillis and Wētā Workshop, Predator: Badlands
●  Millennium FX, Primate
●  Werner Pretorius and Amazing Ape Productions, Backrooms
●  Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
●  1000 Women in Horror
●  Chain Reactions
●  In Search of Darkness: 1995-1999
●  The Last Sacrifice
●  Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror

BEST NON-FICTION TV SERIES OR MINISERIES
●  The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans
●  Grave Conversations
●  The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs
●  Monstrum
●  Svengoolie

BEST SERIES
●  Alien: Earth
●  The Creep Tapes
●  Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen
●  The Vampire Lestat
●  Widow’s Bay

BEST VIDEO GAME
●  Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake
●  Little Nightmares III
●  No, I’m Not A Human
●  Resident Evil: Requiem
●  Silent Hill f