Time to Vote in the Annual Rondo Awards!

It doesn’t look like much – a small gray bust of a 1940s horror-film actor – but to those lucky enough to win one, it’s as precious as any other award statuette.

It’s the Rondo – a yearly award where the voters are ordinary fans of science-fiction, horror, and fantasy, and the categories include Movies, TV, Blu-Rays, Restorations and Upgrades, DVD Extras, Documentaries, Articles, Books, Magazines, Magazine Covers, Websites, Blogs, Fan Events, and more.

The statuettes are modeled on and named after 1940s actor Rondo Hatton, whose facial disfigurement by the disease Acromegaly led to a career in Hollywood horror films.

Now in its 23rd year, the Rondos will wrap up at midnight on Sunday, April 20, 2025, Eastern Standard Time.

In 2006, Stephen D. Youngkin won the Best Book of 2005 Rondo for The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre (University Press of Kentucky).

This year, there are a few Lorre items on the ballot for the Best of 2024 –

#4 – Best Blu-Ray Collection – Among the nominees are two collections with Peter Lorre films.

Columbia Horror, from Indicator, includes Island of Doomed Men (1940). This is a Region B/2 box-set, packed with extras, such as audio commentary on Island of Doomed Men, as well as the other films in the set, and a documentary on Peter Lorre.

Order the Blu-Ray here from Amazon – United Kingdom.

Thrillers From the Vault, from Mill Creek Entertainment, includes The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942). This is a Region 1 Blu-Ray box-set, with some extras, including audio commentary on The Boogie Man Will Get You.

Order the Blu-Ray here from Amazon – United States.

#6 – Best DVD Extras – Among the nominees is “Darkness of the Morbid Brain”, a documentary on Peter Lorre by Jonathan Rigby. This documentary is available as an extra feature on the Columbia Horror Blu-ray box-set.

#17 – Best Cover – Among the nominees is the cover for Monster Bash #55, a portrait of Peter Lorre as Dr. Gogol by Micah Carey. This issue of Monster Bash was released December 4, 2024.

The official ballot is available on the Rondo Awards website.

Voting is done by eMail. To vote, simply cut and paste the ballot into an eMail, mark your choices, include your name, and send the eMail to David Colton at –

taraco@aol.com

Ballots will be accepted until midnight on Sunday, April 20, 2025, Eastern Standard Time.

More information on the Rondos, including the ballot and instructions, the history of the award, and past winners, may be found on the Rondo website.

Winners will be announced on the Rondo website as well as the Classic Horror Film Board, in the folder “Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards”.

Happy voting!