23rd Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards
As another season of Rondo Awards rolls in, all of us at Film Masters are thankful for the tremendous love and support we've experienced from our physical media community this past year. We were able to put out 12 Blu-ray releases in 2024, 8 of which were Special Editions that were made truly special with a bevy of unique bonus features. We also expanded our line to include Limited Editions, and were blown away by the positive reception. Thank you for the interviews, social media comments, and nice words in our inbox (yes, we do read them all!). We are truly grateful to everyone who has supported us in 2024! You allow us to keep on preserving, archiving, and caring for film.
A fun side-effect of what we do is being nominated for the 23rd Annual Rondo Awards! Thanks to our incredible fans, we and our contributors were nominated in quite a few categories. See the full list below, as well as how to vote.
HOW TO VOTE: Voting is by email only. Simply copy this ballot into an email (cut-and-paste works fine), and mark your choices with an X, or use bolded text or highlighted color. We know that can be awkward so you can also just type your picks into an email. Send the email to David Colton at taraco@aol.com no later than Sunday night at midnight, April 20. Full website/ballot here.
Film Masters is nominated for:
Question 3: Best Blu-ray:
— TORMENTED (1960; Film Masters)
Question 4: Best Blu-ray Collection:
— CREATURE WITH THE BLUE HAND (1967)/WEB OF THE SPIDER (1971; Film Masters)
Question 6: Best DVD Extras:
— NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST (1959; Film Masters) Documentary from Ballyhoo Motion Pictures 'Made from TV, Bernard Kowalski as a Director' AND
— TORMENTED (1960; Film Masters) ‘Bert I. Gordon, Bigger Than Life,’ documentary with C. Courtney Joyner by Ballyhoo Motion Pictures
Question 7: Favorite Commentator:
— Gary Rhodes, Larry Blamire (Tormented, 1960)
To sum up from Film Masters; we're proud of the work we did in 2024 and look forward to 2025! Our mission continues to be restoring neglected film prints to the highest quality we can, while preserving the integrity of the print. We're constantly digging up new prints and evaluating what we can restore. Rest assured — there's a lot of magic that's been happening behind the scenes and many films are on the way! To tease... if we count our queue for the upcoming months, we're currently in progress on 7 releases with another 6 on the way. That's a lot at once for our small team!