The Chainsaw spotlight continues as we highlight our 2022 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards nominees! We love to cozy up on the couch and pop some homemade corn, this week we are celebrating Best Streaming Premiere Movie. (We’ve previously showcased Best Wide Release, Best Limited Release, and Best First Feature in case you missed it!) We want you to make an informed vote so we are spending these next few weeks celebrating and showcasing all of our incredible nominees.
Hopefully, you’ve had a chance to get caught up on any of the Best directorial debuts, Wide, and Limited Release nominees you may have missed. And if you’ve watched them all, you have time to revisit before casting your vote! Happy viewing and congratulations to all of the wonderful horror makers who fueled our year with (the right kind) of nightmares.
Our nominees for Best Streaming Premiere Movie are:
The Boy Behind The Door – Justin Powell and David Charbonier – watch now
The sophomore film from The Djinn creators delivers a horrific tale of child abduction. Two best friends, Bobby (Lonnie Chavis) and Kevin (Ezra Dewey) are abducted on their way home from school. When Bobby manages to escape, he doesn’t get very far once he realizes he can’t leave Kevin behind. In an interview with FANGORIA for their first movie, The Djinn, Powell said “We love kids in horror: Child’s Play, Jurassic Park, those movies really stuck with us, the kids in those movies.”
Fear Street: 1666 – Directed by Leigh Janiak – stream on Netflix
While we love the Fear Street trilogy as a whole, we are specifically celebrating the third and final installment of Leigh Janiak’s teen scream collection, tying together all the Shadyside goodness. Check out our Convo X Fango as we get deep and spoiler-y with Fear Street actors Julia Rehwald, Olivia Scott Welch and Fred Hechinger chatting FX, needle drops and the pleasant surprise factor that blossoms in the time between script-to-screen.
Lucky – Directed by Natasha Kermani – stream Lucky now
Brea Grant is a force to reckoned with and it was a busy year for her both on and off camera, with Lucky, 12 Hour Shift and another Chainsaw nominated feature The Stylist. In Lucky, Grant plays a suburban woman who fights to be believed as she finds herself stalked by a threatening figure who returns to her house night after night. When she can’t get help from those around her, she is forced to take matters into her own hands
The Power – Directed by Corinna Faith – watch now
A young nurse in 1974 is forced to work the night shift in a crumbling hospital as striking miners switch off the power across Britain. Inside the hospital walls lurks a terrifying presence that threatens to consume her and everyone around her.
Violation – Directed by Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer – watch now.
Suddenly we’re craving ice cream, anyone else? A troubled woman on the edge of divorce returns home to her younger sister after years apart. But when her sister and brother-in-law betray her trust, she embarks on a vicious crusade of revenge (and that’s putting it quite lightly.)
