International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival

International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival

Location	Tempe, Arizona, United States
Language	International
Website	http://www.horrorscifi.com

International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival is a film festival dedicated to the genres of horror and science fiction. The event is held annually in Tempe, Arizona, United States. ^{[1] [2]} The festival was founded in 2005 by fans of horror and sci-fi films.

2005 festival awards

Hall of fame

• Tobe Hooper - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre , Poltergeist
• Lloyd Kaufman - The Toxic Avenger , Tromeo and Juliet

2006 festival awards

Hall of fame

• Mick Garris - The Stand , Masters of Horror

Sci-fi awards

• Best Science Fiction Feature - Firefly
• Best Director - Firefly
• Best Documentary - Pulp Fiction Art: Cheap Thrills and Painted Nightmares
• Best Animated Sci-Fi Feature - Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles
• Best Science Fiction Short Film - The Grandfather Paradox
• Best Science Fiction Animated Short - I Must Destroy You
• Best Alternate Reality Featurette - Assumption
• Best Surreal Short Film - Reality Check
• Best Science Fiction Musical - Alien Rose
• Best Alternate Reality Short - Outside In
• Best Science Fiction Tragedy - MICROGRAVITY
• Best Cinematography - Model Man
• Best Story in an SF Short Film - The Futurist
• Best Set Design - Adidas, Adi-color Green
• Best Surreal Future Short Film - Last Man in Brooklyn
• Best Fantasy Short Film - Say That You Love Me...

Horror awards

• Best Horror Feature - Unrest
• Best Actress - Corri English, Unrest
• Best Screenplay - In Memorium
• Best Splatter - The Slaughter
• Best Short - Penny Dreadful
• Best College Sound Design - Penny Dreadful
• Best Editing - Penny Dreadful
• Best Acting Ensemble - Death by Engagement
• Best Actress College Short - Emily Vacchiano, Penny Dreadful
• Creepiest Micro Short - No. 12
• Best Zombie Comedy - Zombies in Love
• Most Disturbing Short - Faceless
• Atomic Comics Fright Fest Award - Zomburrito
• Best Zombie Film - Recently Deceased
• Creepiest College Short - Watcher
• Best Foreign Short - Akai
• Goriest Micro Short - Deadly Tantrum
• Best Dark Future Drama - A through M
• Best Screenplay - A through M
• Best Dark Fantasy Short Film - Scribble
• Best Science Fiction Satire - Passion to the Max
• Best Dystopic Future Short Film - Bartholomew's Song
• Best Special Effects - Man vs. Woman
• Best Dark Future Foreign Film - Missing Pages
• Best Dark Future Short Film - The Salesman
• Best Superhero Short Film - Dial ‘A’ for Alphaman ^[3]
• Best Accidental Apocalypse - Genesis Antipode
• Best Science Fiction Short Drama - NIA
• Best Black and White Science Fiction Short - 36
• Best Story in a Dark Future Short Film - Robots Are Blue
• Creepiest Short - Room to Breathe
• Micro Short Hall of Fame - Ghost Busted
• Best Micro-Short Cinematography - The Cobbler's Daughter
• Best Adaptation - Pit and the Pendulum
• Most Promising Filmmaker - Schattenkind
• Best Comedy/Horror, Micro Short - Movie Monster Insurance
• Best Documentary - Horror Fans
• Best Micro Short Zombie Film - Cannibal Grave Yard
• Best Sound Design, Foreign Short - Bad Dreams
• Creative Vision Award - Siniestro
• Goriest Short - Terrorist Ate My Brain
• Best Comedy/Horror - Zombie American
• Best Animated Short - If I Had a Hammer
• Best Cinematography, Foreign Short - Devilwood
• Best Costumes, Foreign Short - Devilwood
• Best High School Short - Snowmaniac
• Best Actress Horror Short - Lea Moreno, The Need
• IHSFF Alumni Award, Best Returning Filmmaker - The Resurrectionist
• Best Music - The Resurrectionist
• Best Short Screenplay - The Resurrectionist
• Best Short Cinematography - The Listening Dead
• Best Effects - The Listening Dead
• Best Production Design - The Listening Dead

2007 festival awards

Source: ^[4]

• Best Horror Feature Film: Long Pigs
• Best Horror Short Film: Coming to Town
• Best Sci-Fi Feature Film: 11 Minutes Ago
• Best Sci-Fi Short Film: EPICAC
• Hall of Fame inductees:
  • Linda Blair ^[5]
  • Ken Foree ^[6]

2008 festival awards

Source: ^[4]

• Best Horror Feature Film: Farmhouse
• Best Horror Short Film: Kirksdale
• Best Horror Screenplay: Alien Raiders
• Best Sci-Fi Feature Film: Ray Bradbury’s Chrysalis
• Best Sci-Fi Short Film: D-I-M, Deus in Machina
• Hall of Fame inductees:
  • Jeffrey Combs ^[7]
  • Adrienne King ^[8]

2009 festival awards

Source: ^[4]

• Best Horror Feature Film: XII
• Best Horror Short Film: Jack The Reaper
• Best Horror Screenplay: Neighbor
• Best Sci-Fi Feature Film: Eyeborgs
• Best Sci-Fi Short Film: SchizoFredric
• Hall of Fame inductees:
  • Marilyn Burns ^[9]
  • Judith O'Dea ^[10]
  • Casper Van Dien ^[11]

2010 festival awards

Source: ^[4]

• Best Horror Feature Film: Rage
• Best Horror Short Film: The Furred Man
• Best Horror Screenplay: Ashes
• Best Sci-Fi Feature Film: Everything’s Eventual
• Best Sci-Fi Short Film: Cockpit: The Rule of Engagement
• Hall of Fame inductees:
  • Charles Cyphers ^[12]
  • Lance Henriksen ^[13]

2011 festival awards

Source: ^[4]

• Best Horror Feature Film: Absentia
• Best Horror Short Film: Bugbaby
• Best Sci-Fi Feature Film: Triple Hit
• Best Sci-Fi Short Film: Picture Show at the End of the World
• Hall of Fame inductees:
  • Heather Langenkamp ^[14]

2012 festival awards

Source: ^[4]

• Best Horror Feature Film: It’s In The Blood
• Best Horror Short Film: Brutal Relax
• Best Sci-Fi Feature Film: Pig
• Best Sci-Fi Short Film: Secret Identity

2013 festival awards

Source: ^[4]

• Best Horror Feature Film: Found
• Best Horror Short Film: Killer Kart
• Best Sci-Fi Feature Film: Channeling
• Best Sci-Fi Short Film: White Room: 02B3

2014 festival awards

Source: ^[4]

• Best Horror Feature Film: Billy Club
• Best Horror Short Film: The Carriage or Dracula and My Mother
• Best Sci-Fi Feature Film: S.O.S.: Save Our Skins
• Best Sci-Fi Short Film: The Developer

2015 festival awards

Source: ^[4]

• Best Horror Feature Film: Blood Punch
• Best Horror Short Film: Dead Hearts
• Best Sci-Fi Feature Film: Clew
• Best Sci-Fi Short Film: Air

2016 festival awards

Source: ^[4]

• Best Horror Feature Film: Night of Something Strange
• Best Horror Short Film: Night of the Slasher
• Best Sci-Fi Feature Film: Parallel
• Best Sci-Fi Short Film: Helio

2017 festival awards

Source: ^[4]

• Best Horror Feature Film: The Night Watchmen
• Best Horror Short Film: Wandering Soul
• Best Sci-Fi Feature Film: The Open
• Best Sci-Fi Short Film: Real Artists

2018 festival awards

Source: ^[4]

• Best Horror Feature Film: The Evil Within
• Best Horror Short Film: Fisher Cove
• Best Sci-Fi Feature Film: Chimera
• Best Sci-Fi Short Film: Noro

2019 festival awards

Source: ^[4]

• Best Horror Feature Film: My Soul to Keep
• Best Horror Short Film: Zombied
• Best Sci-Fi Feature Film: Last Sunrise
• Best Sci-Fi Short Film: The Way the Future Was

2020 festival awards

Source: ^[4]

• Best Horror Feature Film: To Your Last Death
• Best Horror Short Film: Asking for a Friend
• Best Sci-Fi Feature Film: The Honeymoon Phase
• Best Sci-Fi Short Film: Secret Space

2021 festival awards

Source: ^[4]

• Best Horror Feature Film: The Stairs
• Best Horror Short Film: The Relic
• Best Sci-Fi Feature Film: 12 Months of Kai
• Best Sci-Fi Short Film: Fearfully Made

2022 festival awards

Source: ^[4]

• Best Horror Feature Film: CRABS!
• Best Horror Short Film: #NOFILTER
• Best Sci-Fi Feature Film: The Alternate
• Best Sci-Fi Short Film: Golem

2023 festival awards

Source: ^[4]

• Best Horror Feature Film: Mind Body Spirit
• Best Horror Short Film: Madame Hattori’s Izakaya
• Best Sci-Fi Feature Film: Once Upon A Time in the Future: 2121
• Best Sci-Fi Short Film: That’s Our Time

2024 festival awards

Source: ^[4]

• Best Horror Feature Film: Sheryl
• Best Horror Short Film: Wait For It
• Best Sci-Fi Feature Film: Tim Travers and the Time Travelers Paradox
• Best Sci-Fi Short Film: Lost in the Sky

See also

• List of fantastic and horror film festivals

References

1. "Help Center - The Arizona Republic". help.azcentral.com. Retrieved 2023-01-31.
2. "Phoenix.gov". Archived from the original on 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
3. Jackson, Mike, Dial 'A' for Alphaman (Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy), Steam Powered Films, retrieved 2021-10-14
4. "Awards". International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. 2011-11-21. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
5. "Linda Blair — 2007 IHSFF Hall of Fame Inductee". International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. 2007-01-26. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
6. "Ken Foree — 2007 IHSFF Hall of Fame Inductee". International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. 2007-11-20. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
7. "Jeffrey Combs — 2008 IHSFF Hall of Fame Inductee". International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. 2008-11-20. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
8. "Adrienne King — 2008 IHSFF Hall of Fame Inductee". International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. 2008-01-26. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
9. "Marilyn Burns — 2009 IHSFF Hall of Fame Inductee". International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. 2009-01-26. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
10. "Judith O'Dea — 2009 IHSFF Hall of Fame Inductee". International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. 2009-01-26. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
11. "Casper Van Dien — 2009 IHSFF Hall of Fame Inductee". International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. 2009-01-26. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
12. "Charles Cyphers — 2010 IHSFF Hall of Fame Inductee". International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. 2010-11-21. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
13. "Lance Henriksen — 2010 IHSFF Hall of Fame Inductee". International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. 2010-11-21. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
14. "Heather Langenkamp — 2011 IHSS Hall of Fame Inductee". International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. 2011-11-21. Retrieved 2025-04-09.

External links

• Official website