Festivals: Stanley Film Fest
After Stanley; Enter The Overlook Film Festival
As you've seen on this site, we've been big supporters of The Stanley Film Fest over the three years that fest ran from 2013-2015. Well now it is time to be big supporters of a brand-new festival called The Overlook...
XLrator Media Grabs Hold Of North American Rights For Thriller SUN CHOKE
Ben Cesciman's sophomore effort Sun Choke has found distribution with XLrator Media through their Macabre label. The film will undoubtedly get a theatrical and digital release and we will likely have a home video release shortly after that. LOS ANGELES (January...
Stanley Film Festival 2015 Interview: SUN CHOKE Director Ben Cresciman On Loneliness And Isolation In LA
[Photo by Jessica Barnthouse/Wicked Bird Media.]There isn't a lot more I can say about Sun Choke that I haven't already discussed in my original review here or in the conversation with actresses Barbara Crampton, Sarah Hagan, and Sara Malakul Lane...
Stanley Film Festival 2015 Interview: The Ladies of SUN CHOKE On The Dark Side Of Humanity
Sun Choke is an odd film. It holds many secrets and doors, both closed and open. It's a film that may reveal more of itself with multiple screenings over time, but it's a mysterious lady that doesn't like talking much....
Stanley Film Festival 2015 Interview: COOTIES Stars On Bringing The Horror of The '80s Back
From many people who attended the Stanley Film Festival this past weekend, I heard that Cooties was a stand-out among the features. I spoke to writer and actor Leigh Whannell, actor and producer Elijah Wood, and actor Alison Pill on tainted chicken nuggets,...
Stanley Film Festival 2015 Interview: The Minds Behind SpectreVision
[photo by Jessica Barnthouse/Wicked Bird Media]Winners of the Stanley Film Festival's 2014 Visionary Award, production company SpectreVision blazed back into Estes Park, CO, to present a new cut of their feral child horror-comedy, Cooties. (The film originally debuted at Sundance 2014....
Stanley Film Fest 2015: Wrapped Up In Photos
The 2015 third edition of the Stanley Film Fest has come and gone and it was without a doubt, another huge success. The good folks at the Denver Film Society have again curated a super enjoyable "horror-film summer camp" with...
SOME KIND OF HATE: Image Entertainment Picks Up Supernatural Slasher
Image Entertainment has picked up the North American rights for Adam Egypt Mortimer's supernatural slasher flick Some Kind of Hate. The flick had its world premiere at the Stanley Film Festival this past weekend. Some Kind of Hate stars Ronen Rubenstein (It Felt...
Stanley Film Festival 2015 Review: SUN CHOKE Brings Ambiguous Back
Writer-director Ben Cresciman's second feature, Sun Choke, premiered at the Stanley Film Festival this weekend. It's a film that's not easy to describe: imagine a fever dream sprung from the mind of an unreliable narrator that is both a murderer,...
Stanley Film Fest 2015 Preview: ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Picks
We've made no secret of our fondness for the upstart Stanley Film Fest. Taking place at the historic Stanley Hotel (famous as Stephen King's inspiration for The Shining) in Estes Park, Colorado, Stanley has quickly become the premier destination horror...
Watch The New Teaser For SOME KIND OF HATE
The world premiere of Some Kind of Hate will take place at the Stanley Film Festival on May 2 at 1:30 p.m. [Note corrected time] --- just days away. Adam Egypt Mortimer's feature will focus on dead high school girl...
Oscilloscope Laboratories Gets Their Hands On Berk And Olsen's BODY
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to Dan Berk and Robert Olsen's Body. The film premiered at Slamdance and will play next at the Stanley Film Festival, the genre festival that takes place in the hotel that inspired The Shining. A...
Stanley Film Fest 2015: COOTIES Will Open Colorado Fest
We've made it pretty clear we are big fans of the Stanley Film Fest over the last few announcements of the Film Lineup and the Events Lineup. Today brings one more piece of news and it's that Cooties will be...
Stanley Film Fest 2015: THE FINAL GIRLS, THE INVITATION, WE ARE STILL HERE Lead Solid Horror Lineup
Quickly becoming the most exciting festival on the Spring fest lineup, Colorado's Stanley Film Fest announced the meat of their program today and it is juicy. The closing night film will be Todd Strauss-Schulson's SXSW hit The Final Girls (pictured)...
Stanley Film Fest 2015: TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE Leads Live Events Lineup
One of the highlights from last year's extremely enjoyable Stanley Film Fest was Glass Eye Pix's live "Stanley Edition" of their radio show Tales From Beyond the Pale. Well the live events lineup has been released for this year's fest...
Passes Now On Sale For Stanley Film Fest 2015
If you followed our coverage of Stanley 2014 then you know that this weekend getaway fest nestled in the Rocky Mountains is one of the coolest things happening in the US festival world. And if you're into scary movies, well...
Stanley Film Fest Sets 2015 Dates, Submissions Now Open
If you followed our coverage of Stanley Film Fest 2014, then you likely know this little film fest in the Rocky Mountains is quickly becoming a "must go" on the genre film festival calendar. Filled with the year's best horror,...
Stanley Film Fest 2014 Wrap Up & Photo Gallery
The fake blood has all been mopped up and empty whiskey bottles put out on the curb. Yes, the second edition of the Stanley Film Festival has come to its end and the attendees have all gone home from their...
Stanley Film Fest 2014 Dispatch: Day 4 Brings A Bloody End
Day four brings us to the Horror Awards Brunch, Big Wheel Death Race, a hotel history and ghost tour, and screenings of The Sacrament, What We Do In The Shadows, shorts programs, and too much for one person to ever...
Stanley Film Fest 2014 Dispatch: Day 3, Or, Death Becomes Us
Festival exhaustion has set in, leaving the most hardcore among us shuffling about nearly as well as the afternoon's zombie procession. Day three was filled with enough panels, parties, performances, karaoke, and movies to rival an elevator blood tsunami....
