Voting for the Splatcademy Awards is now live!

Click here for the official ballot!

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Splattercast #167 is up.

We announce the nominees for the 3rd Annual Splatcademy awards and then take a bite out of the Jaws franchise.

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Here you go folks, the official list of nominees for the 3rd Annual Splatcademy Awards. We’ve also included links to all the podcasts presenting. It’s going to be fun!

Check out the nominees and let the debate begin!

Full coverage and discussion of the nominees on the upcoming Splattercast. And remember, voting goes live on February 1st, so you have a week to think about who you’ll vote for.

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We’ve been mentioning it on the last couple of Splattercast episodes, but preparation for the 3rd Annual Splatcademy Awards is well underway. This year, the show will take place on Monday, March 8th. One day after Hollywood’s Academy Awards, which by now, has become tradition for us. I’ve set up a new page that you can check for all the latest news on presenters and nominees. But here’s some fresh info.

• We’ve completed selecting the nominees in each category. We’ve got one film left to check out that may change a couple categories if it is deemed necessary: Sick Girl. Otherwise, nominees are set.
• You might have heard that the Academy Awards will feature 10 nominees for Best Picture this year, we have decided to piggyback off our sister awards ceremony ( ) and do the same. Should make for a wide-open field!
• We’re going to be courting some potential controversy this year, and for once, I’m not the cause of it! Could a big name, well-received, genre film have been left out of the nominations entirely? You’ll have to wait and see.
• The full list of nominees will be revealed on Monday’s Splattercast (167) and voting will go live on February 1st.

We’re hoping to make this year’s show even bigger than last year! We’ve got some new podcast presenters and might have some super secret features added to the show.

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It’s up. Revel in the orgy of horror podcasting goodness.

Special thanks to all the podcasters who presented:

19 Nocturne Boulevard ,Bloody Good Horror, B-Movie Cast, Cadaver Lab, The Cheap and Dirty Podcast, Drunken Zombie, Horror Etc., Horror Movie Fans Radio W/ Mike, Dried Blood Podcast, It Came From the Basement, Just Another Fucking Movie Podcast, Mail Order Zombie, The Midnight Horror Show, The Midnight Podcast, Motion Picture Massacre, Night of the Living Podcast, The Obscure 80’s Podcast, The Sleepy Cast, SweHorror, and The Zombie Chronicles

And a warm squishy hug to Explodey Jo, Jackie, and Codey for their outstanding help. Deejay as well, who made some great commercials.

And of course, I can’t forget to thank our Lifetime Achievement Award recipient for contributing an acceptance speech. I won’t spoil the surprise…

On behalf of everybody at the Splattercast, we hope you enjoy the show!

p.s. the file on Deadlantern.com is very large. If you don’t mind a lesser quality sound, head on over to our podomatic page.

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There are only 10 days until the 2nd Annual Splatcademy Award Ceremony! A quick bit of news: We’re going to be shutting down the ballot Sunday night in order to give winners time to send in acceptance speeches. So if you haven’t voted yet, you’ve only this weekend left to do it so get on it!

We’re working on some special surprises as well. I don’t want to give anything away in case they fall through, but we’re crossing our fingers.  Stay tuned…

We have a great lineup of podcasts this year that will be presenting the 20 awards. Here’s links to all of them and their respective categories:

19 Nocturne Boulevard: Scream Queen of the Year
Bloody Good Horror: Best Foreign Horror Film
B-Movie Cast: Achievement in Cinematography
Cadaver Lab: Best Death Scene
The Cheap and Dirty Podcast: Best Horror Podcast not Named The Splattercast
Drunken Zombie: Achievement in Makeup
Horror Etc.: Best Actor
Horror Movie Fans Radio W/ Mike: Best Television Series
Horror Yearbook: Achievement in Horror Design/Key Art
It Came From the Basement: Best Film
Just Another Fucking Movie Podcast: Achievement in Visual Effects
Mail Order Zombie: Best Horror Blog/Website Not Named Deadlantern.com
The Midnight Horror Show: Scariest Scene or Moment
The Midnight Podcast: Achievement in Sound/Score
Motion Picture Massacre: Best Actress
Night of the Living Podcast: Best Villain
The Obscure 80′s Podcast: Best Director
The Sleepy Cast: Achievement in Breasts
SweHorror: Best No to Low Budget Indie
The Zombie Chronicles: Best Screenplay, Original or Adapted

After the show, Jeff and I have to go dance together at 10 different balls. I can’t wait to tell everyone how gorgeous he looks.

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Update (Jeff): Whaddup, guys? I have dialled back the anti-spam (duplicate vote) checking on the vote.deadlantern.com ballot page. Hopefully everyone will be able to use it now. It looked fine to me in my pre-launch testing but people were running into problems that I didn’t forsee and I apologize for the inconvenience.

If you still can’t vote at the ballot site, you can send in a ballot via e-mail, using the doc that Mat uploaded (see below) or just e-mail him a list of your choices (mat@deadlantern.com). Mat will keep track of these manual votes using his trusty abacus. Nobody knock it over before the voting is done!

Also, on the electronic side, it may appear to you that you can vote multiple times now, but rest assured we are still logging the uniqueness of each vote and will be able to filter out spamming attempts from the final tallies. We also reserve the right to send Deejay to the houses of multiple voters to have a little chat with them about the sanctity of elections. We have your IP addresses and Mat can social engineer your ISP service reps into telling us where you live.

If you can’t successfully vote online: DOWNLOAD THE “PAPER BALLOT”

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