Fright Meter Awards 2015 - Nominations Announced

Yesterday the Fright Meter Awards nominations were announced. These awards have been presented annually since 2007 and for the first time I have been on the committee deciding what gets put forward for consideration. The Fright Meter Awards is a registered non profit organisation dedicated to honouring the years best in horror made up of around fifty bloggers, actors, directors, producers and others from around the world. So here are the nominations, not all of which I personally agree with but a chunk of what I voted for did make it through so is all good. So here are the nominations...



Best Horror Movie

The Final Girls
Goodnight Mommy
It Follows
Spring
What We Do in the Shadows

Best Director

Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (Spring)
Guillermo del Toro (Crimson Peak)
Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz (Goodnight Mommy)
Ted Geoghegan (We Are Still Here)
David Robert Mitchell (It Follows)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Mark Duplass (Creep)
Lou Taylor Pucci (Spring)
Ryan Reynolds (The Voices)
Kurt Russell (Bone Tomahawk)
Taika Waititi (What We Do in the Shadows)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Barbara Crampton (We Are Still Here)
Taissa Farmiga (The Final Girls)
Nadia Hilker (Spring)
Maika Monroe (It Follows)
Lin Shaye (Insidious: Chapter 3)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Larry Fessenden (We Are Still Here)
Matthew Fox (Bone Tomahawk)
Richard Jenkins (Bone Tomahawk)
Leigh Whannell (Cooties)
Rainn Wilson (Cooties)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Malin Akerman (The Final Girls)
Jessica Chastain (Crimson Peak)
Deanna Dunagan (The Visit)
Lisa Marie (We Are Still Here)
Sierra McCormick (Some Kind of Hate)

Best Screenplay

Bone Tomahawk
The Final Girls
It Follows
Spring
What We Do in the Shadows

Best Makeup 

Bone Tomahawk
Crimson Peak
Deathgasm
We Are Still Here
Wolfcop

Best Special Effects

Crimson Peak
Deathgasm
Headless
Insidious: Chapter 3
Stung

Best Score

Crimson Peak
Deathgasm
The Editor
The Final Girls
It Follows

Best Editing

The Final Girls
It Follows
Spring
Unfriended
We Are Still Here

Best Cinematography

Bone Tomahawk
Crimson Peak
It Follows
Spring
We Are Still Here

Best Short Film

Chomp
The Confession of Fred Krueger
The Package
Ronald McDonald Playground Slaughter
Selfie From Hell

So there you have it, all the nominations including a fair few I haven't seen yet so I will have to try and do that before voting for who the winners should be.