HALL of INFAMY - the awards show we'd like to see!
May 21st 2007 03:48
Back at the Academy Awards of 1982 Rick Baker won the first ever Oscar for Best Achievement in Makeup for his still astonishing transformation sequence (and assorted wounds) in An American Werewolf in London (1981), however since then very few horror movies have reaped that bestowment. Stan Winston won for makeup on Terminator 2: Judgment Day and for his animatronic work on Jurassic Park (1993). Winston and, I believe, Ray Harryhausen are the only two special effects technicians on the Hollywood Walk of Stars.
Over at the Saturns (Academy of Science-Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Awards) Dick Smith won for The Exorcist (1973), Altered States (1980), Scanners (1981). Rob Bottin won for RoboCop (1987) and Seven (1995). Tom Savini won for Day of the Dead (1985), he also got a Lifetime Achievement Award at the New York City Horror Film Festival in 2003. Greg Nicotero has won for Vampires (1998), Land of the Dead (2005), Sin City (2005), The Hills Have Eyes (2006) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006).
But what about the nitty-gritty awards, those in-betweeners that don’t necessarily involve individual people, which the horrorphiles really want to discuss, rather than an across the board general special effects makeup award?
Of course, it might be more fun to broaden the horizon, and make it an all-time greatest Hall of Infamy, in which case the selection process should include everything from 1968 onwards (the year Night of the Living Dead was released, the first real modern horror movie). Each year people select movies for the respective categories and each year the tally is weighed up, so adjustments might need to be made.
BEST CREEPY PRE-CREDITS SEQUENCE
SCARIEST MUSICAL SCORE
SCARIEST USE OF SOUND EFFECTS
BEST LINE SPOKEN BY A VILLAIN
BEST TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCE
MOST BLOODCURDLING SCREAM/BEST SCREAMER
BEST SEQUENCE OF EXTENDED JEOPARDY
MOST INVENTIVE DEATH SCENE
MOST GRUESOME DEATH SCENE
MOST SHOCKING DENOUEMENT
MOST TRANSGRESSIVE MOVIE
GORIEST MOVIE
SCARIEST MOVIE
So what would be some of your selections? Any additional categories (as I limited it to just 13)?
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Comment by Nickoftime's Sanity Corner
now this would be one awards show I'd definetly pay good money to go see!
Those are really cool categories! LOL
Great post!
Take care,
Nick
Comment by KylieW
Celebrity Obsession
Love the categories. I particularly like the Most Inventive Death Scene. I can't think of any other categories just at the moment
Kylie
Comment by Ruby
The Rubik's Cube
"Saw" and the series comes a close second.
Comment by Damo
Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile
Damo,
I thought about this one after and realised a lot of great horror villians never say a word! Like Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees for example .... So maybe the award has to be broader and actually more direct, like Scariest Villain Screen Presence ...? What do you think?