The Scariest Things Podcast Episode 168: The 2023 Thingy Awards

The Envelope, Please! There was a strong youth movement in the horror movie offerings of 2022. Breakout stars who received prominent roles in major studio productions factored significantly in the 2023 Thingy Awards. This was a great year for the big studios, who brought us multiple original stories bolstered by studio budgets and talented directors. As usual, The Scariest Things had an open invitation to our fan base to participate in the voting, and we also recruited a number of jury members from our friends in the media whom we know have seen at least a majority of the horror films that were issued in 2022. Our only regret this year is that we didn’t have enough short films to respond to, and that is always a difficult film to select a winner from with a broad audience, and we will be looking for a way to re-integrate best Horror Short for the future Thingy Awards. This year, we have a formal tie-break methodology. Every so often, The Scariest Things has an in-house competition to decide who the Mayor of Tropetown will be. This year the Mayor’s scepter was passed to Liz Williams in the recent Spooky Time 15 Episode because she made the better Tubi film recommendations. (The best way to select a mayor!) As such the Mayor is given the responsibility to break any ties that happen in the Thingy Award selections. A quick note, if you are an avid Podcast listener and want to hear the winners announced by Eric and Liz, step away from this post, and load up your podcast feed, and then come back. With that said, I think I see a limousine pulling up… The 2023 Thingy Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Horror Movie Role It seems like it has to be said every year, but the best actress is the hardest and most jam-packed of the nominee groups.  It’s the same story for 2022. There were so many great performances by actresses in 2022 where these women simply owned the genre. This year, a definitive new wave of young actresses is on the scene. Rebecca Hall holds down the fort for the veteran actresses, but there is a generational push that has arrived, so much so that we couldn’t include everybody.