{"id":248020,"date":"2025-10-24T07:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/248020\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T07:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:23:14","slug":"this-years-best-kills-that-didnt-take-home-the-chainsaw-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/248020\/","title":{"rendered":"This Year’s Best Kills That Didn’t Take Home The Chainsaw Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of the baddies who didn’t make the cut for Best Kill (Credit: Converse\/Focus Features\/Columbia Pictures)<\/p>\n

With this year\u2019s Chainsaw Awards<\/a> in the bag, we saw plenty of brilliant filmmakers take home the most coveted award in horror, as voted by you, the FANGORIA readers. But the biggest award of the year, Best Kill, is always a write-in, letting you, our dear readers, tell us what impressed you the most on the big screen in the last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since the category is always a write-in, we only ever announce the winner during the awards, rather than the many contenders for the big award of the night \u2014 we received countless votes recounting your favorite bloody, vicious, and totally killer horror movie deaths from the last year, but unfortunately, only one can win. (Congrats to the folks behind Terrifier 3<\/a>, by the way!) But, since you lovely readers are always curious about what ends up in the mix, and we at FANGORIA love to celebrate all things horror, not just the big winners, we wanted to highlight some of our favorite submissions for this year\u2019s category, as written in by you, our lovely audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Without further ado, here are some of YOUR favorite kills of the year that didn\u2019t quite make the cut! (Spoilers incoming, obvs.)<\/p>\n

Sinners \u2014 Remmick\u2019s Final Encore<\/p>\n

\"Jack
\nJack O’Connell in SINNERS (Credit: Warner Bros. Discovery)<\/p>\n

It wouldn\u2019t be 2025 without some mention of Ryan Coogler\u2019s runaway hit Sinners <\/a>\u00a0\u2014 which took home several awards, including Best Wide Release \u2014 and specifically Remmick the vampire\u2019s (Jack O\u2019Connell) death by sunlight. Y\u2019all were particularly obsessed with the piece of guitar that ended up sticking out of his head \u2014 a particularly fun piece of makeup design, if I do say so myself. (Or is it prop design? Either way, it rips.)<\/p>\n

Nosferatu \u2014 Bouncing On It Deadly Style<\/p>\n

\"NOSFERATU
\nNOSFERATU (Credit: Focus Features)<\/p>\n

Speaking of vamps, I\u2019d be the first person to tell you that horror took a sexy turn this past year, especially when it comes to vampires wanting to bounce on it crazy style<\/a>. The voters of the Chainsaw Awards seemed to agree, as many of you wrote in to nominate poor Nosferatu\u2019s (Bill Skarg\u00e5rd) death in the movie bearing his name, when he perished by sunlight while, and I quote, \u201cmaking sweet, sweet love\u201d with Lily-Rose Depp\u2019s Ellen Hutter. Talk about a bad hookup. <\/p>\n

Smile 2 \u2014 Gallner\u2019s Gory Demise<\/p>\n

\"Kyle
\nKyle Gallner in SMILE (Credit: Walter Thomson\/Paramount Pictures)<\/p>\n

When it comes to dying, we\u2019d be remiss if we didn\u2019t mention Kyle Gallner, more specifically in Smile 2<\/a>, where he picks up from where the first film left off, having just inherited the curse of the Smile Entity from Sosie Bacon\u2019s Rose Cotter. In the process of passing on the curse to drug dealer Lewis (Lukas Gage), he bites the bullet, and according to our readers, the Strange Darling star is just \u201cso good at dying.\u201d <\/p>\n

Final Destination: Bloodlines \u2014 Too Metal For The MRI<\/p>\n

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\nFINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES (Credit: Warner Bros. Discovery)<\/p>\n

The Final Destination franchise has given us some of the best kills in horror history, and this year\u2019s latest entry, Final Destination: Bloodlines<\/a>, is no exception. As described by one FANGORIA reader, \u201cPoor Erik was hardcore punk a little too close to the MRI machine and got himself crushed into a ball of mush, mixed with granny’s stolen wheelchair and all. Don’t play with overpowered magnetism, kids!\u201d<\/p>\n

MaXXXine \u2014 Crunched By a Car Crusher<\/p>\n

\"Kevin
\nKevin Bacon in MAXXXINE (Credit: A24)<\/p>\n

Mia Goth is one of the greatest scream queens of the twenty-first century, and she cemented her status in horror history in Ti West\u2019s X trilogy, which wrapped up \u00a0with MaXXXine<\/a>. The adult film star turned aspiring actress experienced some deadly kills in her rise to glory \u2014 including Kevin Bacon\u2019s sleazy private investigator John Labat, as one voter put it, \u201cbeing juiced like an orange in his car while the dogs lapped it up.\u201d That\u2019s why we don\u2019t play around in junkyards, kids!<\/p>\n

Terrifier 3 \u2014 Death By Rodent<\/p>\n

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\nTERRIFIER 3 (Credit: Cineverse)<\/p>\n

While Terrifier 3<\/a>\u2019s shower kill scene took home the big prize, Jess\u2019s (Margaret Anne Florence) death by rat was also an honorable mention \u2014 it\u2019s got to be gnarly if it nearly made Art himself (David Howard Thornton) throw up! As one reader says, \u201cIf there’s any chance to make your killer sick to their stomach because of their own craft, that definitely should mean something.\u201d <\/p>\n

Miscellaneous Murders & Mayhem<\/p>\n

\"Chi
\nChi Lewis-Parry in 28 YEARS LATER (Credit: Columbia Pictures)<\/p>\n

There were so many great and gory submissions for this year\u2019s award \u2014 so many that I can\u2019t fit them all in this article! But just for you lovely readers (and voters), I\u2019ll give you a sneak peek at some of the other deaths that were a hit with audiences this year.<\/p>\n

Oz Perkins\u2019 Stephen King adaptation The Monkey<\/a> had some great kills, including the death-by-pool-electrocution death that Theo James\u2019 Hal witnesses, and even though he won Best Supporting Performance, Nicholas Cage\u2019s killer in Perkins\u2019 Longlegs<\/a> lost out for his gnarly self-inflicted death. There\u2019s also 28 Years Later<\/a>\u2019s terrifying alpha Samson (Chi Lewis-Parry) ripping his poor victim\u2019s spine out, and Jack Quaid\u2019s terrible boyfriend Josh in Companion<\/a> getting his just desserts via electric corkscrew. (They\u2019re not just good for wine, folks!)<\/p>\n

Thank you all so much for voting in and watching this year\u2019s Chainsaw Awards! If you missed the event live, you can revisit it now on Shudder <\/a>or stream it on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tMaggie Boccella<\/a><\/p>\n

A self-professed Babe With the Power and bad movie enthusiast, Maggie Boccella is a pop culture junkie whose work also appears on Collider, Blossom Mag, and Certified Forgotten, as well as her podcast Girlies for McGann. When not writing, she’s probably watching a schlocky horror movie (Slumber Party Massacre 2 forever) or reading a murder mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the baddies who didn’t make the cut for Best Kill (Credit: Converse\/Focus Features\/Columbia Pictures) With this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-248020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}