
The International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival shrank massively in 2011 when it was subsumed into the Phoenix Film Festival, but it grew successively with every year's event until it reached a new peak in its tenth anniversary year of 2014. The 2015 festival looks to be roughly the same size as the previous year, suggesting that its growth may have stabilised, with one more competition feature but two less showcase features. There thankfully remain four sets of short films.
The most notable difference is the lack of a classic film or a special guest to accompany it. Instead the focus is entirely on newer filmmakers, with many showcase features planning to send directors and/or talent for Q&As. Sadly, in the end, perhaps only Matthew Brown and Ashley Williams of
Julia showed up, but many of the competition films were represented by cast and/or crew.
The people behind the festival remained consistent, as always. Check them all out if you're into film in Arizona, beginning with Jason Carney and the folk at the
Phoenix Film Foundation. Monte Yazzie is the festival manager, who programs the showcase features with Andrea Beesley, the Midnite Movie Mamacita, is the festival director. Danny Marianino and Brandon Kinchen from
I Can Smell Your Brains program the competition side for horror and science fiction writer
Mike Stackpole handles sci-fi.
Here are all the films that screened this year, with titles linking to my reviews and the IMDb pages added for reference.
Rating System
1 -
Abysmal | 2 -
Bad | 3 -
Poor | 4 -
OK | 5 -
Good | 6 -
Excellent | 7 -
Classic
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Sci-Fi Features |
Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
Adventurados | 2014 | 4 | 4 | Berton Pierce | IMDb |
Clew | 2015 | 5 | 5 | Eric Badros | IMDb |
The Shells | 2015 | | | Max Finneran | IMDb |
The Sighting | 2013 | 4 | 4 | Doug Dezzani | IMDb |
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Showcase Features |
Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
Betamax | 2015 | 2 | 2 | Mike Etoll, Bobby Hacker, Jim Kunz, Scooter McCrae, Damon Packard and Vanessa Scully | IMDb |
Deathgasm | 2015 | 6 | 6 | Jason Lei Howden | IMDb |
The Editor | 2014 | 5 | 5 | Adam Brooks & Matthew Kennedy | IMDb |
Exeter | 2015 | | | Marcus Nispel | IMDb |
Julia | 2014 | 6 | 6 | Matthew A Brown | IMDb |
Kumiko the Treasure Hunter | 2014 | 5 | 5 | David Zellner | IMDb |
Lost Soul | 2014 | 6 | - | David Gregory | IMDb |
Monsters: Dark Continent | 2014 | 4 | 4 | Tom Green | IMDb |
When Animals Dream | 2014 | 5 | 5 | Jonas Alexander Armby | IMDb |
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Horror Shorts A |
Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
What is Momo? | | 4 | 4 | Ross Harris | n/a |
In Extremis | 2014 | 4 | 4 | Gregory Crosbie | IMDb |
Hush | 2014 | 4 | 5 | Michael G Kehoe | IMDb |
Dead Hearts | 2014 | 5 | 5 | Stephen W Martin | IMDb |
Boys Will Be Boys | 2014 | 4 | 4 | Richard Rotter | IMDb |
Bad Guy #2 | 2014 | 6 | 6 | Chris McInroy | IMDb |
M is for Mobile | 2013 | 5 | 4 | Baris Erdogan | IMDb |
Father Mud | 2014 | 5 | 4 | Jameson Hesse | IMDb |
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Horror Shorts B |
Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
Lure | 2013 | | | Kyle Robinson | IMDb |
Q | 2014 | | | Tom Vujcic | IMDb |
Less of You | 2014 | | | Byron Camacho | IMDb |
Paramnesia | 2014 | | | Michael May | IMDb |
I Owe You | 2015 | | | Mike McNeese | IMDb |
Viscera | 2014 | 4 | 4 | Lauren Marie Morrison | IMDb |
A Stranger Kind | 2014 | 5 | 5 | Oliver Murray | IMDb |
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Sci-Fi Shorts A |
Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
Death and the Iron Maiden | 2014 | 3 | 3 | Kevin McGuiness | IMDb |
Air | 2014 | 5 | 5 | Emma Maclennan | IMDb |
RomantiCorp: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Computer | 2014 | 5 | 5 | Kirill Kripak | IMDb |
2.0 | 2014 | 4 | 4 | Ally Burnham | IMDb |
Witch Hunt | 2014 | 4 | 4 | Johno Faherty | IMDb |
The Routine | 2014 | 5 | 5 | Brian Groh | IMDb |
Cassandra | 2014 | 5 | 5 | Guy-Roger Duvert | IMDb |
When Tears Have Fallen | 2014 | 5 | 5 | Henrik Henziger | IMDb |
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Sci-Fi Shorts B |
Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
Japanese Doctor Who | 2014 | 4 | 4 | Joshua Kahan | IMDb |
The Temporal Party | 2014 | 5 | 5 | Ignacio J Reveco | IMDb |
M-Theory | 2014 | 4 | 5 | T L Westgate | IMDb |
The Looking Planet | 2014 | 4 | 5 | Eric Law Anderson | IMDb |
Nostalgic | 2014 | 5 | 4 | Ronald Eltanal | IMDb |
Super Therapy! | 2014 | 4 | 4 | Kai Arne Soot & Stig Morten Waage | IMDb |
Valiant | 2014 | 5 | 5 | Robin Phillips | IMDb |
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