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The 2026 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards are almost here and we’ve got all the nominees for the year so far. This year’s ballot showcases the absolute smash of a year that horror movies have had with releases like Backrooms, Obsession, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, and Dust Bunny.
Get Out To Vote For The Chainsaw Awards
Voting runs from July 2nd and goes through July 15th right here.
Leading the pack for this year’s nomination slate are 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 Wide 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.
“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.
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.
The Full List Of Nominees
BEST WIDE RELEASE
● 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
● Backrooms
● THE BRIDE!
● Dust Bunny
● Faces of Death
● Hokum
● Leviticus
● Obsession
● Send Help
● Weapons
BEST LIMITED RELEASE MOVIE
● Forbidden Fruits
● 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
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