The International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival is a sister festival to
The Phoenix Film Festival. It's shorter, cheaper and more fun; and also naturally restricted to genre film, showing everything that range might suggest. There are classic films you've seen with guest appearances from some of the stars; new features, some in competition; plenty of short films from student, amateur or up and coming directors; and a few odd other gems thrown in too.
This year the festival reaches its sixth year, returning once more to
MADCAP Theaters in Tempe. Special guests are Adam Busch with a screening of
Drones; Charles Cyphers with
The Fog; Lance Henriksen with
Aliens; and Tiffany Shepis with
Night of the Demons.
The people running this festival know precisely what they're doing and they're all major players in this local community. Check them all out if you're into film in Arizona, beginning with Chris and Jason and the folks at the
The Phoenix Film Foundation. Andrea, the
Midnite Movie Mamacita is the event director. Program directors are Danny and Brandon from
I Can Smell Your Brains for horror; and science fiction writer
Mike Stackpole for sci-fi.
Here are all the films showing this year, with film titles linking to my reviews and the IMDb pages added for reference. My reviews will fill in over the next week or so.
Rating System
1 -
Abysmal | 2 -
Bad | 3 -
Poor | 4 -
OK | 5 -
Good | 6 -
Excellent | 7 -
Classic
| | | | | |
| Showcase Features |
| Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
| Aliens | 1986 | 6 | 7 | James Cameron | IMDb |
| Avé Maria | 2009 | 5 | 5 | Chris Aurilia | IMDb |
| Closets | 2010 | 4 | 5 | Charles Peterson | IMDb |
| Drones | 2010 | 5 | 5 | Amber Benson & Adam Busch | IMDb |
| The Fog | 1980 | 5 | 5 | John Carpenter | IMDb |
| Jim | 2010 | 4 | 4 | Jeremy Morris-Burke | IMDb |
| King of Thorn | 2009 | 5 | 5 | Kazuyoshi Katayama | IMDb |
| Night of the Demons | 2009 | 4 | 4 | Adam Gierasch | IMDb |
| RoboGeisha | 2009 | 2 | 2 | Noboru Iguchi | IMDb |
| Snuff | 2010 | 3 | 3 | Brian Skiba & Liam Owen | IMDb |
| Suspiria | 1977 | 6 | 5 | Dario Argento | IMDb |
| Zenith | 2010 | | | Vladan Nikolic | IMDb |
The International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival is a sister festival to The Phoenix Film Festival. It's shorter, cheaper and more fun; and also naturally restricted to genre film, showing everything that range might suggest. There are classic films you've seen with guest appearances from some of the stars; new features, some in competition; plenty of short films from student, amateur or up and coming directors; and a few odd other gems thrown in too.
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