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The BAFTA nominations prove awards bodies are finally taking horror movies seriously

With Hugh Grant nominated for a BAFTA for Heretic and Demi Moore winning a Golden Globe for Oscars hopeful The Substance, the once derided genre has been elevated to the big leagues

And she isn't the only actor that many feel to have been passed over for their stand-out part in a horror film; just look at Toni Collette in 2018's Hereditary, beloved by critics but ultimately shut out by the Academy gatekeepers. At the BAFTAs this morning, Hugh Grant got a Best Actor nomination for his eerie atheist in Heretic, a sharply written flick in which he terrorises a pair of Mormon missionaries who turn up at his doorstep. Grant's inclusion might've been at the expense of Daniel Craig, whose exceptional performance in Queer is about as physically and emotionally vulnerable as you'll ever see from an ex-Bond, but it's refreshing nonetheless to see an actor in a horror movie considered among the leading lights of an awards season.

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