Stanley Film Festival

Stanley Film Festival was a horror film festival located in Estes Park, Colorado. Founded in 2013, the festival showcased independent horror films, including features, shorts and special events with guest filmmakers. The festival was named for the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park where it is held, a neo-Georgian hotel that was the inspiration and setting of Stephen King's horror novel The Shining. The festival also held a student film competition titled, The Stanley Dean's Cup.^{[citation needed]}

2013 Festival

The inaugural festival was held May 2–5, 2013.^[1] Opening night film: The Purge with director James DeMonaco and producer Jason Blum in attendance.^[2] The 2013 festival was curated by Programming Director Landon Zakheim and programmer Michael Lerman, with films from 13 different countries.^[3]

Selected films

Film	Director	Country	Additional Notes
100 Bloody Acres	Colin and Cameron Cairnes	Australia
Aftershock	Nicolás López	USA, Chile	Closing Night
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane	Jonathan Levine	USA
Beneath	Larry Fessenden	USA
Berberian Sound Studio	Peter Strickland	United Kingdom
Big Bad Wolves	Navot Papushado & Aharon Keshales	Israel
Black Rock	Katie Aselton	USA
Cabin Fever – Unrated Director's Cut	Eli Roth	USA
Frankenstein's Army	Richard Raaphorst	Netherlands
Here Comes the Devil	Adrián García Bogliano	Mexico
Macabre	Kimo Stamboel & Timo Tjahjanto	Singapore, Indonesia
Maniac	Frank Khalfoun	USA
No One Lives	Ryûhei Kitamura	USA
Room 237	Rodney Ascher	USA
Sightseers	Ben Wheatley	United Kingdom	Centerpiece
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari	Robert Wiene	Germany
The Purge	James DeMonaco	USA	Opening Night
The Rambler	Calvin Lee Reeder	USA
The Shining	Stanley Kubrick	USA
Tower Block	James Nunn & Ronnie Thompson	United Kingdom
V/H/S/2	Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans, Gregg Hale, Eduardo Sánchez, Timo Tjahjanto & Adam Wingard	USA, Canada, Indonesia
Vanishing Waves	Kristina Buozyte	Lithuania, France, Belgium
Wither	Sonny Laguna & Tommy Wiklund	Sweden

Special Events

• "Secrets of The Shining" panel discussion about Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, which complimented a screening of Room 237.

It included Room 237 director Rodney Ascher and subject Jay Weidner, Leon Vitali, who was Kubrick's personal assistant on The Shining,

Mick Garris, director of The Shining (TV miniseries), and moderated by Badass Digest writer Devin Faraci.

• Presentation of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with live piano score by performer Hank Troy.
• "Composing for Genre Cinema" - a panel discussion with film score composers, Nathan Barr, Jonathan Snipes, William Hutson, Hank Troy and Mark Schulz.
• Live performance by the John Chaos Sideshow.

2013 Awards

Award	Recipient	Film/Note
Visionary Award	Eli Roth	Example
Audience Award for Feature	Franck Khalfoun	Maniac
Audience Award for Short	Ryan Spindell	The Root of the Problem
Stanley Dean’s Cup	John McSween	Peak of Terror

2014 Festival

The 2nd annual festival took place April 24–27, 2014.

Selected films

Film	Director	Country	Additional Notes
Doc of the Dead	Alexandre O. Philippe	USA	Opening Night
What We Do in the Shadows	Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement	New Zealand	Closing Night
The Babadook	Jennifer Kent	Australia
Blood Glacier	Marvin Kren	Austria
Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead	Tommy Wirkola	Norway/Iceland
Eyes Wide Shut	Stanley Kubrick	UK/USA
The Fall of the House of Usher	Jean Epstein	France/USA
Gremlins	Joe Dante	USA
Housebound	Gerard Johnstone	New Zealand
Late Phases	Adrian Garcia Bogliano	USA
Lesson of the Evil	Takashi Miike	Japan
LFO	Antonio Tublen	Sweden/Denmark
Moebius	Kim Ki-duk	South Korea
The Nightmare Before Christmas	Henry Selick	USA
Nothing Bad Can Happen	Katrin Gebbe	Germany
Open Windows	Nacho Vigolando	Spain/USA
Ragnarok	Mikkel Brænne Sandemose	Norway
R100	Hitoshi Matsumoto	Japan
Rigor Mortis	Juno Mak	Hong Kong
The Sacrament	Ti West	USA
Sleepwalkers	Mick Garris	USA
Starry Eyes	Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer	USA
The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears	Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani	Belgium / France / Luxembourg
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – 40th ANNIVERSARY RESTORATION	Tobe Hooper	USA
Witching and Bitching	Alex de la Iglesia	Spain
Who Can Kill a Child?	Narciso Ibáñez Serrador	Spain

2014 Awards

Award	Recipient	Film/Note
Visionary Award	Elijah Wood Daniel Noah Josh Waller	Founders of SpectreVision
The Master of Horror Award	Joe Dante
Audience Award for Feature	What We Do In The Shadows
Audience Award for Short	Here Be Monsters
Jury Award for Short	Ghost Train
Stanley Dean's Cup Jury Award and Stanley Dean's Cup Audience Award	Wormbug

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2015 Festival

The 3rd annual festival took place April 30 - May 3, 2015.

Opening night film: Cooties with SpectreVision production company partners Daniel Noah, Josh Waller, and Elijah Wood in attendance.^[5]

Selected films

Film	Director	Country	Notes
The Nightmare	Rodney Ascher	USA
We Are Still Here	Ted Geoghegan	USA
Body	Dan Berk & Robert Olsen	USA
The Boy	Craig Macneill	USA
Deathgasm	Jason Lei Howden	New Zealand
Director's Commentary: The Terror Of Frankenstein	Tim Kirk	USA
The Final Girls	Todd Strauss-Schulson	USA	Closing Night
Cooties	Jonathan Milott & Cary Murnion	USA	Opening Night
Goodnight Mommy Ich Seh Ich Seh	Severin Fiala & Veronika Franz	Austria
The Hallow	Corin Hardy	United Kingdom
Hollow	Ham Tran	Vietnam
The Invitation	Karyn Kusama	USA	Centerpiece
Let Us Prey	Brian O'Malley	United Kingdom
Over Your Dead Body Kuime	Takashi Miike	Japan
Scherzo Diabolico	Adrian Garcia Bogliano	Mexico
Shrew's Nest Musarañas	Juanfer Andrés & Esteban Roel	Spain
Some Kind Of Hate	Adam Egypt Mortimer	USA
Stung	TBenni Diez	USA
Sun Choke	Ben Cresciman	USA
The Treatment	Hans Herbots	Belgium
When Animals Dream Når Dyrene Drømmer	Jonas Alexander Arnby	Denmark
Shivers	David Cronenberg	Canada	Retrospective
Re-Animator	Stuart Gordon	USA	Retrospective
The Bride Of Frankenstein	James Whale	USA	Retrospective
Diabolique Les Diaboliques	Henri-Georges Clouzot	France	Retrospective
Repulsion	Roman Polanski	United Kingdom	Retrospective
The Rocky Horror Picture Show	Jim Sharman	USA	Retrospective

2015 Awards

Award	Recipient	Film/Note
Visionary Award	Tom Quinn	RADiUS-TWC co-president
Audience Award for Feature	The Final Girls	Director Todd Strauss-Schulson
Audience Award & Jury Award for Short Film	The Babysitter Murder	Director Ryan Spindell
Stanley Dean's Cup Colorado Prize	Moon Studios	Director Merritt Crocker
Stanley Dean's Cup International Prize	Inherent Noise	Director Karol Jurga

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External links

• Official Site - www.stanleyfilmfest.com