2015 Reaper Awards Winners Announced; It Follows and Halloween: The Complete Collection Dominate!
Debi Moore
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Anchor Bay and Shout! Factory’s joint release of Halloween: The Complete Collection earned the top honor at the 2015 Reaper Awards competition. The Blu-ray collection of all the films in the Halloween franchise also earned Best Collection.
In addition, Anchor Bay’s It Follows won four awards, including Choice Theatrical Cut, Best Digital Release, Best Scream Queen for Maika Monroe’s Jay, and Best Big Bad for the malevolent “It” force.
Anchor Bay also won for Best TV Collection for The Walking Dead: Season Four on Blu-ray.
Shout! Factory’s Nightbreed: The Director’s Cut — Limited Edition won two awards, Best Title From the Vault (Re-release or Catalog Title) and Best Box Art.
The 2015 Reaper Awards, presented by Home Media Magazine and DreadCentral.com, honor the top horror and thriller titles released between August 1, 2014, and July 31, 2015. Studios submitted contenders for consideration by a panel of judges in conjunction with a consumer vote.
2015 Reaper Awards Winners
Horror Title of the Year
Halloween: The Complete Collection, Anchor Bay Entertainment/Shout! Factory
Choice Theatrical Cut
It Follows, Anchor Bay Entertainment
Best Limited Release/Direct-to-Video Title
ABCs of Death 2, Magnolia Home Entertainment
Best Title From the Vault (Re-release or Catalog Title)
Nightbreed: The Director’s Cut — Limited Edition, Shout! Factory
Best Collection
Halloween: The Complete Collection, Anchor Bay Entertainment
Best TV Collection
The Walking Dead: Season Four, Anchor Bay Entertainment
Best Indie or Foreign Disc
The Babadook, Shout! Factory
Best Extras
Spider Baby, Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment
Best Box Art
Nightbreed: The Director’s Cut — Limited Edition, Shout! Factory
Best Packaging
Planet of the Apes: Caesar’s Warrior Collection, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Best Big Bad
“It” — It Follows, Anchor Bay Entertainment
Best Scream Queen
Jay (Maika Monroe) — It Follows, Anchor Bay Entertainment
Best Kill
Barbed-Wire Biker — Wrong Turn 6, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Best Line of Dialogue
Pam: “Tell you what. Your god and my god can go to a motel and have a circle jerk for all I care. I’ll be in Hell having a three-way with the devil.” — True Blood: Season 7, HBO Home Entertainment
Spookiest Kidvid
Witch’s Night Out, Mill Creek Entertainment
Best Digital Release
It Follows, Anchor Bay Entertainment
Best Digital TV Release
The Strain: Season 1, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Judges’ Award
As Above, So Below, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Open Windows, Cinedigm Entertainment Group
Leprechaun: The Complete Movie Collection, Lionsgate
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