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Award for the Horror film which had the most impact on the audience

Nominations are:

Dawn of the Dead
Dracula (1931)
Halloween (orig)
Jaws
Night of the living Dead
The Exorcist

This movie, adapted from the 1971 novel of the same name, was nominated for 10 Academy Awards of which it won 2, and grossed over $400,000,000 worldwide

Loosely based on the documented exorcism of a 12 year old boy in 1949, and showing a condensed version of the actual Rite of Exorcism, the winner of this award is

The Exorcist

A very controversial movie, it’s impact on audiences had them fainting, screaming and becoming genuinely terrified during the original showing of this movie, and still has the same impact today, almost 30 years after it’s release