Long-time GEP collaborator Kelly Reichardt to receive the Leopard Of Honor at the Locarno Film Festival, an award that has gone to the likes of Ken Loach, Agnès Varda, Werner Herzog and Jean-Luc Godard.

Jason Blum, Laurie Anderson and Costa-Gavras have also been selected for Locarno awards this year. 

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From Buzzfeed: “Filmmaker Jenn Wexler injects a welcome punk rock spirit and visual style for this creepy and occasionally contemplative backwoods slasher about a bloodthirsty park ranger hunting down tripping teenage punks on the lam.”

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 Portrait of the artist as a young man.

Roll out the red carpet! Break out your best Versace and Vera Wang outfits. It’s time, at last, to hand out some Thingy hardware. The best in horror movies from 2021! It may have taken us a while to get here, but we’ve got some winners to announce!

A big thank you to all who helped contribute to the Thingy Award voting once again. We had a number of very close races and even had a few ties amongst our categories this year. But enough waiting, let’s make some announcements. If you want to listen to the podcast and not spoil your enjoyment of the episode, either hop off this site (for now) and onto a streaming platform, or zoom down to the bottom of the page to the audio link to our Podcast. (And ignore the photos!)

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:

Nominees:
Coleman Domingo as William Burke in Candyman.
Larry Fessenden as Jakob in Jakob’s Wife
Rupert Grint as Julian Pearse in Servant
Matthew Modin as Scott Shaw in Wrong Turn
Cillian Murphy as Emmet in A Quiet Place Part II
Mark Proksch as Colin Robinson in What We do in the Shadows
Anupam Tripathi as Ali Abdul in Squid Game
Oh Yeong-Su as Oh Il-Nam in Squid Game

WINNER: Larry Fessenden as Jakob in Jakob’s Wife

See All the Nominees and Winners at
The Scariest Things

2017, Jenn Wexler on set of her punk rock slasher THE RANGER.
Be sure to check out Wexler’s sophomore film THE SACRIFICE GAME,
coming soon!

GEP Alumn Jenn Wexler (Director of THE RANGER and upcoming film
THE SACRIFICE GAME) to judge New Flesh Competition for
Best New Feature at 2022 Fantasia. 

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