Best Horror Movie

Previous Winners:  A Quiet Place, It, Don’t Breathe, It Follows, The Conjuring, As Above So Below, Cabin in the Woods, Doctor Sleep, Black Box, Fear Street trilogy, The Menu

Horror has been on a kind of renaissance over the last decade or so. There are all kinds of horror subgenres from slasher to horror/comedy to psychological. All are represented in the Best and Worst of 2023.

WORST

Runners-Up: Insidious: The Red Room, The Nun 2, It Lives Inside

Winner: Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey

Easiest pick of the night. Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey is the odds on favorite to be the worst movie of the year (wait for that list), so it seems reasonable that this is this worst film too. The other runners-up are bad, but this is painfully atrocious. 

BEST

Runners-Up: Scream VI, Skinamarink, M3GAN, The Blackening

Winner: A Haunting in Venice

The best of the films featuring Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot, A Haunting in Venice is stylish, frightening and a great horror/mystery. The cast does a sensational job and the story’s twist is excellent. One of the top films of the year.