2020 HMF October Challenge Awards

[Tiggnutz]

Post it when you know it.

[DancesWithWerewolves]

Best Actor: Donald Sutherland, Don't Look Now
Best Supporting Actor: Bruce Campbell, Sundown: The Vampire In Retreat
Best Actress: India Eisley, Look Away
Best Supporting Actress: Deborah Foreman, Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
Best Villain: Tie: Princess, The Loved Ones; and Papacorn, Circus of the Dead
Best Hero: George, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
Best FX: Rubber
Best Kill: Titty-burst then stomach ripping, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
Best Set-O-Ta-Ta's: Janus Blythe, Eaten Alive
Best Cinematography: Lyle Vincent, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
Best Editing: Opera
Best Music Score: Bei Ru, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
Best Writing: Ana Lily Amirpour, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
Best Director: Dario Argento, Opera
Most Pleasant Surprise (aka: hey, this wasn't a shitfest!): Hunter's Moon
Best One-Liner: "That's two penetration rooms in a row; let's go for three!" CarausHELL
Best Scream: Clu Gullagher, From Whisper To A Scream
Best Movie: Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
Best Movie Honorable Mentions: Color Out Of Space, Don't Look Now, Opera, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Sundown: The Vampire In Retreat, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

Worst Actor: Rob Zapple, Witchtrap
Worst Actress: Tara Killian, Slaughter Studios
Worst Writing: Kevin Tenney, Witchtrap
Worst Director: Michael James Alexander, Werewolf Island
Worst FX: Desert Wolf
Worst Acting Ensemble: Werewolf Island
Biggest Disappointment (i.e. expected much better/should've been much better): The Wolf of Snow Valley
Worst Movie: Werewolf Island
Worst Movie Dishonorable Mentions: Desert Wolf, Witchtrap, Necropolis, Iron Wolf, Dogman 2

[Tiggnutz]

Best Actor - Anton Yelchin (Odd Thomas)
Best Supporting Actor - Josh Gad (Little Monsters)
Best Actress - Marta Milans (Devoured)
Best Supporting Actress - Jena Malone (The Neon Demon)
Best New Watch - Open 24 Hours
Best Cinematography - The Neon Demon
Best Soundtrack - The Neon Demon
Best Kill - Buzzsaw to the face (Doom Asylum)
Worst New Watch - Scare Me

[DancesWithWerewolves]

Ooh, Jena Malone's in Neon Demon? I've had a thing for her for a long time, maybe I'll give that a shot now

[Tiggnutz]

Ooh, Jena Malone's in Neon Demon? I've had a thing for her for a long time, maybe I'll give that a shot now

She's great in everything imo really good in Neon Demon

[zombie]

my top 5 new watches are as follows..

one must fall
blacula
requiem for a vampire
color out of space
whatever happened to baby jane?

the worst: grace's room

[Jigsaw]

I want to give my movies some shitty awards, might work on that before the election results come in.

[Jigsaw]

New watches: 67
Rewatches: 53



Best New Watch: The Strange Door (1951)
Honorable Mentions: Murders in the Zoo (1933), Killer High (2018), Eye of the Devil (1966)

Most Enjoyably Surprising Watch (New watch): Killer High (2018)
Honorable Mentions: Wilderness Survival for Girls (2004), The Strange Door (1951), Eye of the Devil (1966)

Most Enjoyable Rewatch: The Walking Dead (1936)
Honorable Mentions: The Night Flier (1997), The Birds (1963)

Most Impressive Watch: Silent House (2011)


Worst New Watch: The Hunger (1983)
Honorable Mentions: Return of the Living Dead III (1993), Shark Week (2012)

Least Enjoyable Rewatch: Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis (2005)
Honorable Mentions: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972)

Biggest Letdown (New watch - high expectations, but ended up disliking): M.D.C. - Maschera di cera (1997)
Honorable Mention: Wolfen (1981)

Wasted Potential (New watch - cool concept, but failed hard): House on Haunted Hill (1999)


Most Forgettable Watch: Lost Souls (2000)
Honorable Mention: The First Power (1990), The House Next Door (2006)


And a special mention to Laird Cregar who starred in The Lodger (1944) as one of the most quality performances of the month.