The 2025 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards Land On Shudder October 19

You’ve been asking, and we’ve been thanking you for your patience with a promise that all the Chainsaw news would be revealed soon. Well, the wait is over. We finally have the 2025 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards airdate, host reveal, list of presenters, and all the Chainsaw answers you could hope for. (No, we aren’t telling you who won, you’ll have to tune in for those answers, but nice try.) “But tune in WHEN?!” I hear you cry into the abyss. 

This year’s award show will boldly take us… to space, the final frontier of all great horror franchises. Carrying us through blastoff and beyond are this year’s out of this world Chainsaw Awards hosts Barbara Crampton and Josh Ruben. Our star-studded homage to space-horror premieres Sunday, October 19, at 9:00 p.m. ET on Shudder. 

Crampton and Ruben won’t be alone. Debbie Rochon will narrate the show from liftoff to last scream, and the presenter lineup is stacked: Ryan Coogler (Sinners), Ernest Dickerson (Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight), and David Howard Thornton (Terrifier) will take the stage, while shock rock legends GWAR unleash their signature spectacle to present Best Kill. They’ll be joined by Shannon Purser, Felissa Rose, Tiffany Shepis, Bill Moseley, Jeffrey Reddick, Peaches Christ, Reece Feldman, and many more.

This year’s nominee list is a murderer’s row of Hollywood heavyweights and genre trailblazers. Nicolas Cage (Longlegs), Michael B. Jordan (Sinners), Demi Moore (The Substance), and Lily-Rose Depp (Nosferatu) headline a star-packed slate, joined by Bill Skarsgård, Ralph Fiennes, and Hugh Grant in supporting turns that prove horror’s reach across the industry.