2008 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards

The 2008 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards season is nearing. As of last week, the suggested nominees for different awards categories are as follows:

No Nominees for
Best Restoration
Best Audio Site Or Podcast
Best DVD Company

Best Film
Cloverfield
Diary Of The Dead
Hellboy II The Golden Army
The Orphanage (Is It eligible?)
Dark Knight
Iron Man
Let The Right One In
THE WILD MAN OF THE NAVIDAD (is It eligible?)

Best Indie Film
Spine Tingler -The William Castle Story
The Blind Date Of Coffin Joe
Dungeon Of Dr. Dreck

Best TV
Steven Mofatt's Doctor Who Two Parter SILENCE IN THE LIBRARY/FOREST OF THE DEAD?
Steven Mofatt's Jekyll (Is It eligible?)
Daives Doctor Who Midnight
Dead Set - UK Channel 4
True Blood
Pushing Daisies
Mark Gatiss' Crooked House

Horror Host (active)
The Manor
Svengoolie
Karlos Borloff
The Ghouligans
Mister Lobo

Best Magazine
Little Shop Of Horrors
Filmfax
Mad Scientist (As Best Fanzine)

Best Article
Corman-Dan Heller yak-fest in Video Watchdog 138
Charles B Griffith Article Video Watchdog 141
John Fulton Bio - Monsters From The Vault
"Who Saved Hitler's Brain?" by Brian Albright, FILMFAX #118
Ted Newsom - Series That Never Was Little Shop Of Horrors 21
Joe Winters - Political Perils - Scary Monsters 68
Mark F. Berry - "Harry Redmond Jr: The Last Survivor of Skull Island," from VIDEO WATCHDOG #146.

Best Cover
Mark Maddox Little Shop Of Horrors 20 For The Amicus Issue
Bruce Timm Little Shop Of Horrors 20 (Back Cover)
Jeff Preston - Curse Of Frankenstein Little Shop Of Horrors 21
Frank Dietz - Curse Of Frankenstein Little Shop Of Horrors 21 (back cover)
Daniel Horne Monsters From The Vault vol 14 issue 26
Daniel Horne Monsters From The Vault vol 13 issue 25
Gabe McIntosh - G-Fan #83
No name given - Mad Scientist #17

Best Writer
Porfle aka blackbiped of HKFCN (as best dvd reviewer)

Best Book
Ray Harryhausen - Master of the Majicks
Martin Grams - Twilight Zone Book
Tom Weaver - I Talked With A Zombie
Sam Stall - Dracula's Heir
Tim Lucas - Videodrome
David Hedison - The Fly At Fifty

Best Comic
Wulf & Batsy
LOCKE & KEY: WELCOME TO LOVECRAFT by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez

Best CD
The Creeping Cruds - Tennessee Bloodbath

Count Alucard's CONTROVERSY OF THE YEAR
Battle For Famous Monsters name and legacy
Midnight Marquee moving from print to web only
DVD Market Bottoming out
demise of xploitedcinema.com
Legend Films releasing Paramount catalog and poor distribution
Best Buy Exclusives From Legend Warner, etc.
London After Midnight Lost & Found & Lost Again
Will The Real Batman Please Stand Up
Was Bela Lugosi Filmed Behind the Ice in Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man
dueling stuntmen issue in FMTW.
The Creature did do a cameo on Abbott & Costello's Colgate Comedy Hour

Best Event/Best Convention
The 25th Annual 24 Hour Ohio Sci-Fi Marathon
Schlocktober Film Fest NYC
World Zombie Day Pittsburgh
It's Alive 2008 Zombie Fest (As best convention)
Spooky Movie 2008 - The 3rd Annual Washington, D.C. International Horror Film Festival
B-Movie Celebration Franklin IN
Castle Blood Beallsville PA
The Haunted Mansion - Disney parks
The Jar Reunion at the University of North Alabama
G-FEST XV Mangled Skyscraper Award presentation

Best Website
Count Gore's Weekly Web Program
letsscarejessicatodeath.net
E-gor's Chamber Of Horror Hosts
Dwrayger Dungeon Presents: Monster Movie Music 1950-1969

Artist of the year
Kezilla58 (discussed as fan art)
Roger Koch (ZombieDad)

Best DVD
The Cartoon Adventures Of Major Mars (As best indie dvd)

Best Classic DVD
Icons Of Horror - Hammer Films
Night Galley - Season 2

Best DVD EXTRA
The Mist in Black & White
Hellboy - In Service Of The Demon
Festival of Horrors Volume 1 Steve Niles take on Count Gore

Best DVD Commentary
The rapid-fire commentary track on 42nd Street Forever, Vol. 3

Classic Most In Need Of A Release
House Of Horrors (1946)

Best Toy,Model, Or Collectible
Amok Time Toys 12" Rondo Hatton Figure

Monster Kid Of The Year
Jim Miller for spreading the dvd love over seas
Joe Moe
Cameron McCasland/Larry Underwood/Linda Wylie/Michael Creason For Trash Day Of The Dead from The Go Green With Dr. Gangrene campaign
Dennis Druktenis - Editor Of Scary Monsters Magazine
Tim Lucas
Jim Clatterbaugh

Hall Of Fame
Count Gore De Vol
William Gaines & Al Feldstein Of EC COMICS
Carlos Clarens
Denis Gifford
Walt Lee
Alice Cooper
Michael Jackson
Screaming Jay Hawkins
Rankin & Bass
Gene Colan
Haruo Nakajima
Vic Mizzy
Rod Serling
Dick Bennick aka Doctor Paul Bearer
Taylor White
Bert I. Gordon
Jim Clatterbaugh
Donna & Tim Lucas
Bill Warren
Don Shay
Don Glut
Dick Klemensen
Jonathan Frid
Dan Curtis
Jack Pierce
Christopher Lee
Barbara Steele
John Landis
David Skal
David J. Schow
Bob Wilkins
Walt Disney
Ray Dennis Steckler
Dick Smith
Billy Van

Nominations with no categories given
Ted Newsom
Bob Furmamek

Discussion of New Categories
Best Hi Def/Blu-Ray
Splitting a best website / best blog categories
Best Fan Art

More suggestions have been posted since the above list was compiled. The final nominees will be chosen from fan suggestions. So, if you have a nomination suggestion for 2008, go here and post your suggestion!