Obsession and Backrooms dominate Fangoria Chainsaw Awards

The horror films ‘Obsession’ and ‘Backrooms’ were the primary winners at this year’s Fangoria Chainsaw Awards. ‘Obsession’, directed by Curry Barker, secured five awards, including Best Director for Barker and Best Lead Performance for Inde Navarrette.

‘Backrooms’, directed by Kane Parsons and distributed by A24, earned three awards: Best Film of the Year, Best First Feature, Best Cinematography, and Best Score. The fan-voted ceremony, hosted by Devon Sawa, also recognized ‘Widow’s Bay’ as Best Series and ‘Resident Evil: Requiem’ as Best Video Game.

Other notable honors included the Editor’s Eyeball Award presented to Joe Bird, and a second Editor’s Eyeball Award given to James A. Janisse and Chelsea Rebecca for the horror YouTube channel ‘Dead Meat’.