Congratulations to SINNERS, which handily routed the competition in this year’s Golden Claw Awards - seven wins, including a clean sweep of all the craft categories, a Lead Actor award for Michael B. Jordan, Best Director and Best Film.

It’s time for the 2026 GOLDEN CLAW AWARDS! We award these every year for horror film excellence. (Adele shown for illustrative purposes only.)

Emilie Blichfeldt's feature debut THE UGLY STEPSISTER flips Cinderella upside down and makes The Substance look like a fairy tale. A lacerating body-horror take-down of Disney princess niceties, it’s in cinema from April 18 (US) or 25 (UK). Full review below! #TheUglyStepsister 📽️🔪🎟️

Pretty much the #Oscars of the UK and Ireland horror scene. 😝 📽️ 👻 #horrorsky #filmsky A couple of hours to go!

Last night was the most prestigious night in the Awards’ calendar… the Golden Claws, celebrating the best horror films of the last 12 months! It was once again an honour to serve on the committee - watch the winner announcements below! 👇

The @horrorcriticsgroup.bsky.social Golden Claws have been announced. youtu.be/2EP4E1tKBxo?...

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Forget about the Oscars (WHO?). We have the only awards worth caring about. The UK & Ireland Horror Critics Group presents the winners of its 2025 Golden Claw Awards TONIGHT at 8pm GMT / 3pm ET / 12noon PT. Click to celebrate the best in horror cinema from the last year… 📽️👻 youtu.be/2EP4E1tKBxo

The Moor Just an amazing movie (I also loved Oddity but The Moor stayed in my head after watching it)

Our final ballots have now gone out to our members! Are you a British or Irish film critic who didn’t get one? Message us! On here, or via our website at horrorcritics.group - we’d love to have you vote! #GoldenClaws

Dan Stevens brought so much fun to these gnarly genre movies. He can do anything, and we’re so lucky he chooses these colourful, over-the-top, fantastical gigs.

David Jonsson FTW

Strong lineup!! Naomi or Juliette would get my vote.

Honoured to be hosting such an important award for 5 incredible films of stark visibility and allyship.

Announcing our GOLDEN CLAW AWARDS nominees! We are here to celebrate cinematic horror excellence through 2024. Here’s who our members have nominated… winners will be announced on March 1st! #GoldenClaws 📽️ 👻

This king….

Which one of these 3 did the most to push the genre forward in 2024? Coralie, who got body-horror all the way to the Oscars, Chris who took a classic 80s slasher format and (literally) turned it inside out, or Jane who used TV nostalgia as a dreamlike lens to explore the pain of repressed identity?

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Shout out to @dreadcentral.bsky.social with the skinny on the #GoldenClaws! 📽️ 👻 ❤️‍🔥

The @horrorcriticsgroup.bsky.social #GoldenClaws nominees have been announced - and The Substance has taken a lead, just ahead of Longlegs and I Saw The TV Glow. Winners announced on March 1st! 📽️ 👻

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Announcing our GOLDEN CLAW AWARDS nominees! We are here to celebrate cinematic horror excellence through 2024. Here’s who our members have nominated… winners will be announced on March 1st! #GoldenClaws 📽️ 👻

The rumours are true. UK & Ireland Horror Critics Group. 2025 Golden Claw Awards. Nominees announced: 12 noon GMT / 7am ET TOMORROW ❤️‍🔥📽️👻

It’s TRUE! Round 1 voting forms for the Golden Claw Awards have been sent out. If you didn’t get one, let us know! Any UK or Ireland horror critics can vote. This determines the nominees: we vote again in Feb to pick the winners. Message us for a form, and celebrate the best horror films of 2025!

Thank you to everyone who came out to the Horror Critics Group Christmas drinks last month! Pictured: everyone (who wasn’t up at the bar) that we could gather at 9pm 🥰

You can vote for us daily! We are working to change the landscape for Black and Brown creatives and critics by addressing inequities in the horror industry. Representation matters and we’d love your support!

#SXSW is coming to London - and Horror Critics Group committee member Mo Moshaty is proposing a panel on racial diversity in horror cinema filmmaking and criticism. If you’d like that panel to be selected, be sure to click on the link below and give it a vote! 📽️ 👻 #SXSWLondon

Currently being loosely remade as BUGONIA by Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone, SAVE THE GREEN PLANET is a great, still-underwatched entry in Korean genre cinema. Here’s Group member Anton Bitel with his take on this dark sci-fi escapade…

A great piece on the playful new @arrowvideo.bsky.social meta-horror THE LAST VIDEO STORE, from committee member Kat Hughes. If you remember the joys of DTV genre goodness, this one’s for you. 📽️ 👻

At the end of every winter, the Horror Critics Group hosts its annual Golden Claw awards, celebrating the best in horror cinema. Click the link see the films that were nominated and won in 2024 and 2023. Spoiler: Talk to Me, Barbarian and Nope all did very well! 🏆 📽️ 👻 www.horrorcritics.group/awards

Speaking of Wes Craven, here’s Russell Bailey on both A Nightmare On Elm Street AND Scream. When Wes cooked, he really cooked. 📽️ 👻

Happy birthday to Freddy K! 🎂 Here’s Horror Critics Group member Matt Glasby with some thoughts on what makes the Nightmare On Elm Street series a cut above most other franchises… 📽️ 👻

THE DRAFT is an unusual exercise in meta-horror from an Indonesian perspective. 🇮🇩 Here’s Horror Critics Group member Paul’s review out of @frightfest.bsky.social … 📽️ 👻

If you like the sounds of MAN BEAST, be sure to follow David and look out for his DARK EYES OF LONDON podcast in 2025! 📽️ 👻

Here is a starter pack of Horror Group members! They are all wonderful people and superb horror critics. So if you like horror criticism, or lovely folks in general, click the link and hit “Follow All”! #HorrorSky 📽️ 👻 go.bsky.app/7mMq5EF

Don’t forget to join @horrorcriticsgroup.bsky.social to come along to our Xmas drinks, be a member of the association and vote in the upcoming awards!

A UK or Irish lens in horror criticism enriches the genre. By exploring issues of identity, trauma, & myth from British and Irish perspectives, we can highlight diverse voices and foster cultural specificity. 📽️👻 If you'd like to join the Horror Critics Group, join us here: www.horrorcritics.group

If you’re a Horror Film Critic based in the UK or Ireland, sign up here to participate in our upcoming 2025 Golden Claw awards, celebrating the year in horror cinema… and to be invited to our Christmas Party, of course! 🥰 📽️ 👻 #HorrorSky horrorcritics.group

If you’re a Horror Film Critic based in the UK or Ireland, sign up here to participate in our upcoming 2025 Golden Claw awards, celebrating the year in horror cinema… and to be invited to our Christmas Party, of course! 🥰 📽️ 👻 #HorrorSky horrorcritics.group

If you’re a Horror Film Critic based in the UK or Ireland, sign up here to participate in our upcoming 2025 Golden Claw awards, celebrating the year in horror cinema… and to be invited to our Christmas Party, of course! 🥰 📽️ 👻 #HorrorSky horrorcritics.group/signup

We’re very happy to be here - more information on the 2025 Golden Claw Awards coming soon… 📽️👻 #HorrorSky