Vote for the 2026 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, if you dare

I concluded Drink to smartphones lowering birth rates for World Population Day and National Mojito Day by telling my readers, "Stay tuned for the Sunday entertainment feature. I have an awards show my readers can vote in for free, as long as they are interested in horror and horror-adjacent science fiction movies and television." Those are the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards for horror movies, podcasts, series, and video games. I'm letting PVD Horror list and discuss the nominees along with their votes in Fangoria Chainsaw Awards 2026 Nominees.

It's that time again, Fangoria Chainsaw Award nominees have been announced and the ballots are out! Join us as we go through the categories and pick our winners from a very strong 12 month span that featured films such as Obsession, Backrooms, Weapons, Frankenstein, and many more!

Vote for your favorites, Voting closes July 15 at 11:59 PM PT.

If that's too long, watch Fangoria Chainsaw Awards by Scarah Damsel of the Doomed.

The scream of the crop has arrived!
The nominations for the 2026 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards are officially LIVE! @fangoria gathered 35 of the best new horror films across 14 categories to celebrate the very best in the genre.
Now it’s YOUR turn to decide the winners.
IMPORTANT: The voting window is open for a limited time!
Deadline: July 15th, 2026
Vote Now: Head to Fangoria.com and let your horror-loving voice be heard!

Voting link.

Follow over the jump for my votes and PVD Horror's.


First, my votes.

Best Wide Release Movie: Weapons.
Best Limited Release: Dust Bunny.
Best Streaming Premiere: Reflection in a Dead Diamond.
Best International Movie: Reflection in a Dead Diamond.
Best First Feature: Backrooms.
Best Lead Performance: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Backrooms.
Best Supporting Performance: Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein.
Best Director: Zach Cregger, Weapons.
Best Screenplay: Zach Cregger, Weapons.
Best Cinematography: Jeremy Cox, Backrooms.
Best Score: Alexandre Desplat, Frankenstein.
Best Costume Design: Kate Hawley, Frankenstein.
Best Makeup FX: Mike Hill, Frankenstein.
Best Creature FX: Studio Gillis and WETA Workshop, Predator: Badlands.
Best Documentary Feature: Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror.
Best Non-Fiction Series or Miniseries: Monstrum.
Best Series: Widow's Bay.
Best Video Game: Resident Evil: Requiem.
BEST KILL - Tell Us! The Boogeyman, Widow's Bay.

My votes for Dust Bunny, Frankenstein, and Weapons were influenced by their nominations at the Saturn Awards and Oscars. Widow's Bay already has 19 nominations at the Emmy Awards, which I plan on resuming my coverage tomorrow — stay tuned — and I expect Backrooms and Obsession will get two to four nominations each at the Critics Choice Super Awards on Wednesday. Stay tuned for those, too.

Now PVD Horror's votes:

Best Wide Release Movie: Obsession.
Best Limited Release: Queens of the Dead and The Serpent's Skin.
Best Streaming Premiere: Mother of Flies.
Best International Movie: Exit 8.
Best First Feature: Backrooms
Best Lead Performance: Inde Navarrette, Obsession, and Ralph Fiennes, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. Tough category.
Best Supporting Performance: David Jonsson, The Long Walk, and Amy Madigan, Weapons, with Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein, and Jack O'Connell, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, and Dacre Montgomery, Faces of Death, getting consideration. Yeah, this was another tough category.
Best Director: Currey Barker, Obsession, with Nia DaCosta for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple getting consideration.
Best Screenplay: Hokum and Weapons.
Best Cinematography: Backrooms and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.
Best Score: Backrooms with 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple getting consideration.
Best Costume Design: Frankenstein.
Best Makeup FX: Frankenstein and The Bride.
Best Creature FX: Primate with Five Nights at Freddy's getting consideration.
Best Documentary Feature: In Search of Darkness: 1995-1999: Journey Back Into Iconic '90s Horror with Chain Reactions getting consideration.
Best Non-Fiction Series or Miniseries: The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs.
Best Series: Widow's Bay and Creep Tapes, with Alien: Earth getting consideration.
Best Video Game: Resident Evil: Requiem.
Best Kill: Obsession and Primate.

That's a wrap for today's post. As I wrote above, stay tuned for coverage of the Emmy Awards and Critics Choice Super Awards nominees with Bastille Day in between.