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2025 Tabloid Witch Award Winners

 

* Best Horror Feature Film ......................... Carlos Marban Torres (The Photographer)

* Best Horror Documentary ........................ Hamilton Young Ward (Smile for the Dead)

* Best Dramatic Horror Short Film .............. Andrea R. Ciobanu (Immortal Reflections)

* Best Comedic Horror Short Film .............. Erin Broussard, Donny Broussard (Arson)

* Best Animated Horror Film ...................... Alceo Fx Positano, Elisa Siboldi (Transitus S.E. 2025)

* Best Avant-Garde Horror Film .................. Sean Kurosawa (Girls Just Wanna Have Kill)

* Best Trash Horror Film ............................. Keith Ruggiero (Head)

* Best Horror Music Video ........................... K.K. Hammond & Richard Heeley (Walk With Me Through the Fire)

* Best Dramatic Actress .............................. Maria Folomeeva (Broken Reality)

* Best Dramatic Actor .................................. Mark Hindman Smith (The Eternal Footman)

* Best Comedic Actress .............................. Olivia Peck (Arson)

* Best Comedic Actor .................................. Christopher DeSantis (Incarnation)

* Best Cinematography ............................... Caitlin Brown (Be Nice)

* Best Editing .............................................. Sean Kurosawa (Girls Just Wanna Have Kill)

* Best Visual Effects .................................... Luis Miguel Henao, Gabriel A. Patron Herrera (Reflections)

* Best Make-Up Effects ............................... Kaleb Lewis, Isa Salazar (Arson)

* Best Music Soundtrack ............................. Sam Nobles (Smile for the Dead)

* Honorable Mention ................................... Joseph Harding, Kate McGee, Dane McDowell (Dead Weight)

* Honorable Mention ................................... Arlin Godwin, Trevor Taylor (Stop Taking Pictures)

* Honorable Mention ................................... Daniel Ziegler (Horror Spell)

* Honorable Mention ................................... The Farrington Bros (Chompy's Burgers)

 

 

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Check out 2025's Best Horror Music Video winner, Walk With Me Through the Fire:

 

 

 

 

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