Last Updated on September 17, 2024 by Angel Melanson
We are back, baby, and we can't keep the secret any longer! You've asked for it, and now we're here to give you the answer to your burning questions. The 2024 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards will premiere on Sunday, October 13th at 9pm ET, exclusively on Shudder. Fango friend David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil, Oppenheimer) returns to host for the fourth year in a row, and we could not be more excited to welcome him back. This time, he's joined by… well… me, Angel Melanson! That's right, the cat's out of the bag, and somehow, in this wild Matrix reality we are living in, I get to join the beloved Dastmalchian as co-host. (What is this life?!)
David is also up for Lead Performance nominee for Late Night With The Devil, and our iconic 2024 presenters include Skeet Ulrich (Scream, Riverdale), Madeleine McGraw (The Black Phone, the upcoming The Necklace), Dewayne Perkins (The Blackening, for which he’s also nominated as Best Supporting Performance) and Lauren LaVera (the upcoming Terrifier 3).
Because we've shifted to an October show, our nomination window this year was rather massive, which led to an absolutely stacked list of nominees, which include Evil Dead Rise, M3GAN, Infinity Pool, The First Omen, I Saw the TV Glow, Yellowjackets and Chucky.
“We couldn’t just drop a 2023 awards show in October of 2024, so our nominees represent the best of not only all of last year, but the first half of this year,” said producer and FANGORIA editor-in-chief Phil Nobile Jr. “This of course meant an unprecedented, absolutely brutal level of competition across 18 months of movies and shows. But it’s the Chainsaw Awards; getting a little bloody is, after all, totally on-brand for us.”
The special is written and directed by Michael Varrati (There’s A Zombie Outside, the Midnight Mass podcast), and is produced by Armen Aghaeian, Rebekah McKendry and Nobile. Executive Producers are FANGORIA Studios’ Tara Ansley and Abhi Goel.
“Generally speaking, horror fans love things that defy convention. To that end, with each passing year we’ve been looking to push the Chainsaws into a space that exists past the traditional award show structure,” says Varrati. “This is an event that allows us to celebrate the genre that we love, while also crafting a television special that fits firmly inside of it. We wanted to give audiences a show that not only celebrates horror creators…but horror fans.”
This year's ceremony will premiere Sunday, October 13th at 9pm ET on Shudder TV, Shudder’s in-app programming feed. The Chainsaw Awards will be made available on-demand on Shudder across all platforms, partners and territories beginning Monday, October 14th.
Full list of 2024 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards Presenters:
- Fede Alvarez (director, Alien: Romulus)
- Johnny Berchtold (actor, The Passenger)
- Alejandro Brugués (director, The Inheritance)
- Michael Carbonaro (star, The Carbonaro Effect)
- Spencer Charnas (singer, Ice Nine Kills)
- Peaches Christ (co-host, Midnight Mass podcast)
- Akela Cooper (writer, Malignant)
- Catherine Corcoran (actor, Terrifer)
- Thomas Dekker (actor, Swimming with Sharks)
- Dane DiLiegro (actor, Prey)
- Tananarive Due (author, The Reformatory)
- Larry Fessenden (director, Blackout)
- Alec Gillis (special effects supervisor, Alien: Romulus)
- Brea Grant (director, 12 Hour Shift)
- Gigi Saul Guerrero (director, Satanic Hispanics)
- James A. Janisse (co-host/producer, The Kill Count)
- Lauren LaVera (actor, Terrifier 3)
- Alice Maio Mackay (director, T Blockers)
- Madeleine McGraw (actor, The Black Phone)
- Phil Nobile Jr. (editor-in-chief, FANGORIA Magazine)
- Dewayne Perkins (actor/co-writer, The Blackening)
- Biqtch Puddin’ (performer, The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula)
- Chelsea Rebecca (co-host/producer, The Kill Count)
- Felissa Rose (actor, Sleepaway Camp)
- Tiffany Shepis (actor, Star Trek: Picard)
- Skeet Ulrich (actor, Scream)
- Lachlan Watson (actor, Chucky)
- Throb Zombie (performer, The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula)
Since 1992, the Chainsaw Awards have honored top achievements in the horror genre, with past recipients including Mia Goth, Jordan Peele, John Carpenter, Anthony Hopkins, Wes Craven, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, James Wan, Lupita Nyong’o, Edgar Wright and Elisabeth Moss. Read more about the history of the FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards right here.
