AWARDS
Every film on the shelf is automatically in the running. Once a year, the founders and guest judges go through everything submitted and hand out awards to independent horror that deserved a bigger room. Community awards go to the members who kept the walls.
馃弳 Best Feature
The best independent horror feature on the shelf this year.
馃弳 Best Short
The best independent horror short on the shelf this year.
馃弳 Best Practical Effect
For the gag that made us rewind. Corn syrup respected, silicone revered.
馃弳 Best Monster
Design, performance, presence. The thing we couldn't stop thinking about.
馃弳 The Fifteen Grand
The most movie per dollar. Budget bravado, honored.
Paranormal Activity was shot for $15,000 and grossed about $193 million: the best return-on-investment in film history. This award believes in you.
馃帠 The Shape
Most active member. The voice that never stops showing up.
In Halloween's 1978 credits, Michael Myers isn't named: he's billed only as "The Shape." Relentless, ever-walking, always there.
馃帠 H氓rga Host
Most meetups posted this year.
Midsommar's commune throws its big festival once every 90 years. You host more in a month.
馃帠 15,458 Strong
Organizer of the year's largest real-world gathering.
The Guinness record for the largest zombie gathering: 15,458 people, Minneapolis, 2014. A target, not a limit.
馃帠 Presumed Dead
Sighting of the year: the post that kept the most people up at night.
Blair Witch listed its living actors as "missing, presumed dead" and IMDb played along. Cannibal Holocaust's director had to produce his cast alive in court. The best stories blur the line.
馃帠 Final Girl
Kindest, most helpful member: the one who gets everybody through the night.
Coined by scholar Carol J. Clover in 1987 for the survivor who carries everyone's hope to the last reel. Gender-neutral here, obviously.
馃帠 Strode Streak
Longest consistent presence on the board.
Jamie Lee Curtis played Laurie Strode for 44 years across seven films. Show up like Laurie.
馃帠 Copy the Tape
Top recruiter: brings the most new members through the door.
In Ringu, the only escape is copying the tape and showing someone else. The curse survives by recruitment. So do communities.
馃帠 Lawnmower
The single most-reacted post of the year.
Peter Jackson's Braindead pumped roughly 300 litres of fake blood through its lawnmower finale: five gallons a second. For the post that drenched the whole feed.
馃暞 Class of 1896
The first five members. There at the premiere.
The first horror film ever, Georges M茅li猫s' Le Manoir du Diable, premiered Christmas Eve 1896 and ran three minutes. Everything since is a sequel.
馃暞 Surviving Print
The first one hundred members.
In 1925 a court ordered every print of Nosferatu destroyed. It survives because copies had already spread too far to catch. The first 100 are the prints that got away.
馃暞 Founder 路 Furniture 路 Take 148
Founder and crew badges, plus "Take 148" for magnificent stubbornness.
The Shining holds the Guinness record for retakes of one dialogue scene: 148. Some things are worth doing again until they're right.
Every badge carries a true piece of horror history. Categories may grow. Judges' decisions are final and gleefully subjective. See terms.