KILLER REVIEWS MOVIE AWARD WINNERS FOR 2009 Featuring the best horror films of 2009 Killerreviews.com launched the first annual awards ballot in October 2009 wherein we received countless responses through our message board, fellow horror sites and personal emails voting on such categories as Best Horror Film and Best DVD Release. When the votes were processed by our accountants at Price Waterhouse Coopers, there were some surprises and some clear victors in 13 separate categories. Now that everyone has funneled through the Joan River’s Red Carpet and gotten to their seats, it’s time to announce the winners. Best Horror Film The nominees were: Halloween 2 Drag Me To Hell The Haunting in Connecticut Paranormal Activity Friday the 13th And the winner was: Paranormal Activity. New, raw, scary and now, a box office hit. It is no surprise that Paranormal Activity ran away with the award, easily beating out Friday the 13th that came in second. Best Science Fiction Film The nominees were: Star Trek District 9 Watchmen Terminator Salvation Monsters vs. Aliens And the winner was: District 9. Neill Blompkamp’s movie about aliens and their struggle for survival in a South African compound known as District 9 narrowly beat out Star Trek to take the award. Scariest Film The nominees were: Halloween 2 Drag Me to Hell The Unborn Paranormal Activity Haunting in Connecticut And the winner was: Paranormal Activity. No surprise that the film that won Best Horror comes in and takes more hardware with its win for scariest film. Paranormal Activity was everything that is was built up to be and easily won the majority of the votes in this category. Best Director The nominees were: Zach Snyder for Watchmen Neill Blompkamp for District 9 Rob Zombie for Halloween 2 Henry Selick for Coraline Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds And the winner was: Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds. This race was the closest of any of the categories with Quentin just barely eking out a win from Neill Blompkamp. Don’t worry Neill, you are definitely on our radar and we expect that you will end up with a trophy case full of hardware by the time your career is over. Best Movie Poster The nominees were: Drag Me to Hell Jennifer’s Body Friday the 13th Halloween 2 The Unborn And the winner was: Jennifer’s Body. Call it the Fox Factor, but Megan Fox looking all sexy in a schoolgirl setting easily won out over Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees inspired prints. Best sequel or remake The nominees were: My Bloody Valentine Star Trek Halloween 2 The Last House on the Left Terminator Salvation And the winner was: Star Trek. Voting was not even close as Star Trek easily beat runner up, The Last House on the Left. Surprisingly, Halloween 2 which has received plenty of attention and commentary on the Killerreviews.com message board ranked dead last in the voting. She’s So Damn Hot Award The nominees were: Danielle Harris - Halloween 2 Zoe Saldana – Star Trek Sienna Miller – G.I. Joe Odette Yustman – The Unborn Megan Fox – Jennifer’s Body And the winner was: Danielle Harris for Halloween 2. Danielle Harris was a guest on the Killerreviews.com Podcast Episode 19 and her charm must have rubbed off on our voters who picked the young Halloween star over the much hyped Megan Fox of Jennifer’s Body. So much for the Fox Factor. Best Television Series 2009 The nominees were: Dexter Heroes Smallville Supernatural True Blood And the winner was: Dexter. By almost a 3 to 1 vote over runner up Supernatural, Dexter takes home the trophy. Best Death Scene 2009 The nominees were: Hand in Disposal – The Last House on the Left Arrow to the Head – Friday the 13th Nascar Death – The Final Destination Nigerian Drug Lord Kill – District 9 Naked Chick – My Bloody Valentine And the winner was: Nascar Death – The Final Destination. No category provided as much discussion as Best Death Scene. There were the Nascar Death supporters and the Naked Chick supporters each unwilling to budge. Upon review we found that few people saw both films so the winner may have been a result of the most watched. In the end, Nascar Death won by a nose. Now, if only we can get a horror film to put a naked girl being killed in a racecar and we have a hands down winner. Best Creature or Monster The nominees were: Prawns – District 9 Dragon Creature – Outlander T-800 – Terminator Salvation Snow Creature – Star Trek Twisted Creature – The Unborn And the winner was: Prawns – District 9. District 9 won its second trophy as the aliens in a race struggle with the humans won for best creature or monster. Best Video Game of 2009 The nominees were: F.E.A.R. 2 : Project Origin Resident Even 5 Batman Arkham Asylum Ghostbusters Wolfenstein And the winner was: Batman Arkham Asylum. A clear and decisive victory, Batman Arkham Asylum easily won for game of the year. Best Ass Kicking Female The nominees were: Megan Fox – Tranformers 2 / Jennifer’s Body Malin Akerman – Watchmen Alison Lohman – Drag Me To Hell Isabelle Fuhrman – Orphan Beyonce – Obsessed And the winner was: Malin Akerman for Watchmen. As alter ego, Silk Spectre II, Akerman kicked serious booty in Watchmen. The movie might have been unnecessarily long, but seeing Akerman kick some bad guy ass made us thankful her scenes didn’t hit the cutting room floor. Best DVD/Blu-ray Release The nominees were: Watchmen Trick ‘R Treat American Werewolf in London X-Men Origins: Wolverine The Wizard of Oz And the winner was: Watchmen. Yet another close vote between Zach Snyder’s Watchmen and An American Werewolf in London. But when all the votes were counted, Watchmen edged out the 1981 classic. Special thanks to the following sites who helped us decide our winners! Mitch at HorrorSociety.com Caretaker at GraveyardShow.com Eric at DoubleFeatureShow.com Will at HorrorYearbook.com Grey at TheDarkHours.net Super special thanks to all the Killer Reviews fans who gave us their nominees and votes. You guys are awesome! If you'd like to comment on this article you can do so on the Message Forum. Come on... Tell us what you think!