The highly-coveted Reaper Awards are up for grabs for all accepted features at Grimmfest – there’s all sorts of categories from Best Scare to Best Film via Best Production Design, Best Screenplay and more!

Our intrepid jury consisted of…

Mary Beth McAndrews, Editor-in-Chief at Dread Central; Dr Linnie Blake, Founder of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University; film festival programmer and Screen Anarchy News Editor Andrew Mack, and acclaimed genre author Simon Bestwick.

The Reaper and all at Grimm HQ thank each member of the jury for their time, we are so grateful and hope you enjoyed watching this year’s selection.

Now let’s dive into it!

BEST FEATURE – Piggy

BEST DIRECTOR – Carlota Perada, Piggy

Special mentions – Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper for Vesper, Raul Cerezo and Fernando Gonzalez for The Passenger

BEST ACTOR – RAMIRO BLAS for The Passenger

Special mention – Neal Ward for Feed Me

BEST ACTRESS – LAURA GALÁN for Piggy

Special mentions – Eline Schumacher for Megalomaniac and Stefania Casini for The Goldsmith

BEST SCREENPLAY – The Goldsmith

Special mentions – Candyland and Do Not Disturb

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – Megalomaniac

Special mention – Night Sky

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – Vesper

Special mention – Feed Me

BEST SHORT – Baby Fever

BEST SCORE – Megalomaniac

Special mentions – Vesper and The Lake

BEST SCARE – The Harbinger

BEST SFX – Moon Garden

Special mentions – Pussycake and The Passenger

AUDIENCE AWARD – Feed Me

Congratulations to all of our winners!

Let us know your thoughts on the socials and we’ll see you all very soon…