The 2025 BOBI Awards were announced on Friday, May 23rd at 5:30 pm. The Viewers’ Choice Awards were announced on May 25th at the end of the festival. You can find the winners and honourable mentions below.

INDUSTRY AWARDS

Best Cinematography

WINNER  - Josh Laemmle, Michael McCourt, Danielle McCourt for Purgatory

Best Original Score

WINNER  - Red Tiles for the original score composed by Isserley

Best Special Effects

WINNER  - Locked in the Cellar Creations for Dungeon of Death

Best Performance from an Actor in a Non-Human Role

WINNER  - Savannah Hagin as The Abomination in ABHORRENT

Best Beast

WINNER  - Scott Davis, Eli Moores, and Bara Bara Mahto for the Great Worm and tentacles in Lupe Q and the Galactic Corn Cake

Filmmaker to Watch

WINNER  - Owen McCourt (Director of Purgatory)

HONOURABLE MENTION - Maxwell, Emmett and Michael Dorfman of Dorfman Brothers Films (Directors of Fangs of the Forgotten)

Best Supporting Performance

WINNER  - Osawa Muskwa for The Damnation

HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Ryan Lunn for The Damnation, Liam Siebolt for Lucy's Birthday

Best Leading Performance

WINNER  - Zeddy Chevron for trial.doc

HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Hannah Brennen for Doll, Sofia Skates for Lupe Q and the Galactic Corn Cake, Fernando Navarro for Evil Dinner

Best Short Film

WINNER  - Evil Dinner

HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Lucy's Birthday, Red Tiles, Passion, The Noonday Demon

Best Micro Film

WINNER  - Lupe Q and the Galactic Corn Cake

HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Fangs of the Forgotten, Exit the Red Room: A David Lynch Tribute

Best Student/Emerging Film

WINNER  - Doll

HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Crystal Eyes, Last Blood, Agnes Wakes Up, Pitch Dark

Best Animated Film

WINNER  - Les Bêtes

HONOURABLE MENTIONS - The Shrouding, The Noonday Demon, The Lost Echo

Best Feature

WINNER  - Coffintooth

HONOURABLE MENTIONS - The Damnation, Demon Hunter: Time 2 Kill, Bawla, Girls Just Wanna Have Kill

JURORS’ CHOICE AWARDS

Grossest Gag

WINNER  - From One Hole to Another

If you’ve seen this film, you’ll know why we gave it this award.

The Bram Stoker Award

WINNER  - Coffintooth

Many of this year’s films were bloody, so it was hard to narrow it down to just one, but in the end Coffintooth won out for its consistency.

The Mary Shelley Award

WINNER  - Girls Just Wanna Have Kill

This film really stood out to us because of its innovative approach to storytelling and filmmaking.

The Edgar Allan Poe Award

WINNER  - Agnes Wakes Up

From beginning to end this film created an eerie atmosphere that chilled us to the bone.

VIEWERS’ CHOICE AWARDS

Favourite Film

WINNER  - Dungeon of Death

HONOURABLE MENTIONS - State of Mind, The Damnation

Favourite Non-Human

WINNER  - The Figure (played by Scott Johnson) in State of Mind

HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Zombies (played by Jack Myers & William Albert) in Last Blood, The Whisper/Minerva (played by Julie Mainville) in Dungeon of Death

Favourite Beast

WINNER  - Organ Creature in From One Hole to Another

HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Victor (bat form) in Dungeon of Death, Pizza Monster in Evil Dinner

Best Kill

WINNER  - Parker Blaine (played by Anna Clary) in Coffintooth (drill in the face)

HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Minerva (played by Julie Mainville) in Dungeon of Death (Raullin neck bite), Thomas Albert in Last Blood (zombie machete kill)

Best Death

WINNER - Raullin (played by Keith Busher) in Dungeon of Death (death by vampire)

HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Anna in The Lost Echo (death by head explosion), Connor Easton Osunab (played by Ian Wickham) in Purgatory (death by plastic bag)