Horror films like Obsession are shut out of the Golden Globes – unless they pretend to be comedies Tom Beasley

What do this year’s wish-gone-wrong tale Obsession, gross-out transformation bloodbath The Substance, and Jordan Peele’s generational masterpiece Get Out have in common? Well, they’re all modern horror success stories, with critics and at the box office, and they broke free of genre snobbery to become awards-season contenders.

They’re also toe-tapping laugh riots. At least that’s what the Golden Globes would have you believe. The Globes present a conundrum for horror. Its major categories are split into either “drama” or “musical or comedy” and it’s fair to say neither of those is an obvious home for throat-ripping gorefests or white-knuckle ghost-train rides. So if you’re managing an awards push for a hotly tipped horror, what road do you take? The answer, often, is titters and tap-dancing. Read More.....