The Canadian Horror Marathon Awards Part 2


We now bring you back to a show already in progress.

Welcome back to the Canadian Horror Marathon Awards.  When we left off, Ginger Snaps: Unleashed had just won the Worst Movie award and the Worst Actress award, and My Bloody Valentine had won the Canucker and the Worst Actor award.  I’m going to continue handing out awards, this time for Best Actor/Actress/Movie, as well as a few others.  Let us begin.

The first award following our intermission will be the award for Best Actress of the Canadian Horror Marathon.  The nominations for this category include Eva Allen for Beyond the Black Rainbow, Carrie-Anne Moss for Fido, and Jamie Lee Curtis for Prom Night.  The winner has already won an award, however.  Margot Kidder wins Best Actress of the Canadian Horror Marathon for her work in Black Christmas.  She stands out in a good way in that movie.  It feels like she’s playing herself which elevates the performance beyond the typical performance, for me at least.  She is the character.  Congratulations on your win, Margot.  Don’t drink too much in celebration.

Moving forward, the next award is for Best Actor of the Canadian Horror Marathon.  There were a lot of good actors in this marathon, but I got the nominations down to only a few.  Billy Connolly earned himself a nomination for his work in Fido.  George C. Scott in The Changeling gets a nomination.  How could you not nominate that one?  Michael Ironside got himself a nomination for Scanners.  And the last nominee for this award is Stephen McHattie for his great performance as Grant Mazzie in Pontypool.  However, one man stood out above all these nominees to take the title of Best Actor.  This man comes from a movie called Beyond the Black Rainbow.  This man’s name is Michael Rogers.  His performance as Barry Nyle was pitch perfect, getting the downward descent from dark to madness right where it needed to be at all times.  Nobody could have done it better.

Do you know what time it is?  Don’t tell me you don’t.  It’s rapidfire time!

Hey, You Look Like Joe Anderson – Eric Johnson in Ginger Snaps: Unleashed
Bonus Movie That I Never Got Around To - Deathdream
Best Haunted House Movie – The Changeling
One of the Few Films That Has Made Telekinesis Fights Entertaining – Scanners
On the Air Award – Pontypool
Math Nerds Unite – Cube

Two more awards people.  It’s a horror marathon.  No horror marathon would be complete without an award for Best Death.  That is why this award is here, to give recognition to the best death of the Canadian Horror Marathon.  The nominees include the black and white flashback sequence of Beyond the Black Rainbow, the head explosion in Scanners, and the beheading in Prom Night.  The winner, though, has to go to The Burning.  A bunch of kids get on a raft and approach a canoe.  Out of the canoe jumps the bad guy, brutally murdering all of them.  How can the mass murder of children not make the top of the list?  Winner, winner, chicken dinner.  The Burning wins Best Death of the Canadian Horror Marathon.

Here we are.  Final award of the marathon.  Best Movie.  You’ve been waiting this whole time to hear which one I would pick.  I know you have.  And it’s come down to this moment.  I will list all of the nominees, including the winner.  Then I will say which nominee wins.  So, let’s get at it then.  First nominee is Pontypool.  Second nominee is Beyond the Black Rainbow.  Third nominee is My Bloody Valentine.  Fourth nominee is Scanners.  Fifth nominee is The Changeling.  And the final nominee is The Burning.  I enjoyed each of these movies.  They have some good performances, and in the case of one, an award winning bad performance.  They all tried something different and succeeded in certain areas, while not succeeding in others.  I wouldn’t call any of them perfect.  This race is really a two horse race, and those two movies are close in terms of winning.  I have to pick one over the other.  I might think I’m crazy upon further reflection, and you may agree with that assessment, or you might think I’m crazy already.  I’m going to choose My Bloody Valentine as the Best Movie of the marathon.  Something about it just connected with me.  I liked it a lot.  Congratulations to My Bloody Valentine.

That brings the Canadian Horror Marathon to a close.  It was an interesting month.  I don’t regret seeing any of these movies.  Each of the six nominees for Best Movie were movies that I really liked and would enjoy revisiting.  Some of the other movies fall into that as well.  It was fun.  These awards are now done.  Thank you for reading, and enjoy whatever it is you’re doing.

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