Friday, December 13, 2024

'Alien: Romulus' leads Best Horror Film nominees at the Saturn Awards for Friday the 13th


I told my readers to "Stay tuned for the horror nominees for Friday the 13th" to conclude 'Fallout' leads TV nominees plus 'Star Trek' vs. 'Star Wars' at the Saturn Awards, so I begin with the nominees for Best Horror Film.
Best Horror Film:
A Quiet Place: Day One
Abigail
Alien: Romulus
The First Omen
In a Violent Nature
Longlegs
Smile 2
Alien: Romulus leads horror movie nominees with seven nominations, followed by Longlegs with five, Smile 2 with four, A Quiet Place: Day One and Abigail with two, and The First Omen and In a Violent Nature with just this one. Before the nominations came out, I was thinking I would vote for A Quiet Place: Day One. Now that they've been published, I think I will go with the flow and vote for Alien: Romulus, although I will note that I think its nomination here is one last domino to fall from the decision not to present a Best Superhero Film award, which led to Venom: The Last Dance being nominated as a science fiction film and Deadpool & Wolverine being nominated for Best Action/Adventure Film.

The first didn't affect my vote at all; I was going to vote for Dune: Part Two regardless. The second made me change my vote from Twisters to Deadpool & Wolverine. It probably also kept a film like The Beekeeper from being nominated. In this category, I suspect that if there had been a Best Superhero Film category, Venom: The Last Dance would have been nominated there and the sixth slot would have gone to Alien: Romulus; the Saturn Awards nominated the rest of the Aliens franchise as science fiction. The sixth Best Horror Film nominee might then have been Five Nights at Freddy's or Terrifier 3. In that scenario, I'd have been more comfortable voting for Longlegs, Smile 2, A Quiet Place: Day One, or Abigail, although I might have voted for Five Nights at Freddy's on behalf of my students, who loved and supported the video game movie. They would have approved of that vote.

Follow over the jump for a movie category that includes four horror and horror-adjacent films plus a final pair of videos for the Best Film Music category.

Best Independent Film:
Dream Scenario
Late Night with the Devil
MaXXXine
The Substance
The Thicket
Thelma
The Substance leads this category with four nominations, followed by Dream Scenario, Late Night with the Devil, The Thicket, and Thelma with two each, and MaXXXine with just this one. IMDB has horror tags for The Substance, Dream Scenario, Late Night with the Devil, and MaXXXine, so they deserve to be covered today, while The Thicket and Thelma are action/adventure movies. Not only does The Substance have the most nominations among the "independent" films at the Saturn Awards — Thelma would be a true independent film, complete with a nomination at the Film Independent Spirit Awards — The Substance is far and away the best nominee in this field with seven nominations at the Critics' Choice Awards and six at the Golden Globes, including Best Picture at the Critics' Choice Awards, Best Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globes, and nominations for Demi Moore at both. I'm voting for both The Substance and Demi Moore.

I commented that "if Emmy-winner Cristobal Tapia de Veer's music from Smile 2 isn't better than Hans Zimmer's from Dune: Part Two, the latter is getting my vote" in 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' leads fantasy films at the Saturn Awards with 13 nominations. To that end, I'm embedding Smile.


Damn, that's creepy and makes for good sound effects, but it's not better music than Hans Zimmer's from Dune: Part Two, so the latter is getting my vote.

I close with a bonus track, Skye Riley - New Brain (from SMILE 2) (Official Audio).


That's catchy, but not enough to get me to change my mind.

I'm not done with horror, as I plan on covering the horror television series and other relevant TV categories, plus an acting category I didn't include in 'Fallout' leads TV nominees plus 'Star Trek' vs. 'Star Wars' at the Saturn Awards tomorrow. Stay tuned.

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