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2025 Slasher's Choice Awards

December 31, 2025·1 hr 36 min·4 clips

The Hacker Slash horror community celebrates their year with listener-voted awards.

Hacker Slash signs off its 2025 run with the Slasher's Choice Awards, a year-end episode made for horror fans who like their rankings loud. Chris opens with the show's usual welcome-and-warning energy, then brings in Sean, Vinx, Chell, and Nathan for the panel. The group treats the episode as both a look back at the year's best and worst in horror and a handoff into 2026. The tone stays playful the whole time, with jokes, nicknames, and plenty of dunking, but the criticism still lands with some precision. The hosts are not just tossing out insults; they are breaking down what worked, what missed, and why. That gives the awards format some bite. The episode spends a lot of time on the year's disappointments, especially Hell House LLC Lineage. Nathan's Hell House LLC watch party comes up as part of the film's place in the panel's shared experience, and the movie ends up taking the win for most disappointing ending. The hosts treat that frustration as part of the fun, with the kind of exaggerated reaction the show clearly enjoys. The episode also leaves room for the larger shape of the year, so it feels like a closing chapter rather than just a list of winners and losers. By the end, the crew is looking ahead to 2026 with optimism, menace, and the same familiar rapport. The final stretch folds in the show's Patreon pitch and closes the season in a friendly, slightly unhinged way. What remains is a snapshot of a horror podcast ending the year by arguing in public and enjoying the fight.

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A rowdy 2025 awards special that mixes sharp horror criticism with recurring in-jokes and shared frustration.

This 2025 year-end Hacker Slash special is mostly a good time if the listener likes banter that has some teeth. The awards structure gives the hosts room to turn goofy nominee lists into firmer judgments about what landed and what did not, and the Hell House LLC Lineage running…

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