'Walking Dead' Runs Away With Top Reaper Awards

22 Oct, 2012 By: John Latchem

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Zombies overcame vampires and apes to score the top prize of the 2012 Reaper Awards. The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season — Special Edition, from Anchor Bay Entertainment, earned not only the Grimmy for Best TV on Disc, but for Title of the Year as well.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes, from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, also won two awards, taking Choice Theatrical Cut and Best Box Art. HBO Home Entertainment’s True Blood: The Complete Fourth Season won for Best Extras and Best Line of Dialogue: “I don’t care what happens as long as I get to kill shit!”

The Reaper Awards, presented by Home Media Magazine and DreadCentral.com, honor the top horror and thriller titles released between Aug. 1, 2011, and July 31, 2012. Studios submitted contenders for consideration by a panel of judges in conjunction with a consumer vote.

New this year was a category devoted to Spookiest Kidvid, with the winner receiving a special Grimmy Jr. trophy. The prize went to Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment’s 3D Blu-ray of The Nightmare Before Christmas.

2012 Reaper Awards Winners

Title of the Year
The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season — Special Edition
Anchor Bay Entertainment

Choice Theatrical Cut
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Best Direct-to-Video/Limited Release
Quarantine 2: Terminal
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Best Title From the Vault
Evil Dead 2: 25th Anniversary Edition
Lionsgate

Best Collection
Battle Royale: The Complete Collection
Anchor Bay Entertainment

Best TV on Disc
The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season — Special Edition
Anchor Bay Entertainment

Best Indie or Foreign Disc
The Last Circus
Magnolia Home Entertainment

Best Extras
True Blood: The Complete Fourth Season
HBO Home Entertainment

Best Packaging
Dark Shadows: The Complete Original Series
MPI Home Video

Best Box Art
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Best Big Bad
Cinderhella
Detention
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Best Kill
The Woodchipper
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
Magnolia Home Entertainment

Best Line
“I don’t care what happens as long as I get to kill shit!” — Jessica
True Blood: The Complete Fourth Season
HBO Home Entertainment

Judges’ Award
100 Greatest Horror Classics
Mill Creek Entertainment

Most Anticipated Title
Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines (on DVD and Blu-ray Oct. 23)
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Spookiest Kidvid
The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

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