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.
2013 Festival
The inaugural festival was held May 2–5, 2013. Opening night film: The Purge with director James DeMonaco and producer Jason Blum in attendance. The 2013 festival was curated by Programming Director Landon Zakheim and programmer Michael Lerman, with films from 13 different countries.Selected Films
Special Events
- "Secrets of The Shining" panel discussion about Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, which complimented a screening of Room 237.
- 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 .
2013 Awards
2014 Festival
The 2nd annual festival took place April 24–27, 2014.Selected Films
| Film | Country | Director | Additional Notes |
| Doc of the Dead | USA | Alexandre O. Philippe | Opening Night |
| What We Do in the Shadows | New Zealand | Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement | Closing Night |
| The Babadook | Australia | Jennifer Kent | |
| Blood Glacier | Austria | Marvin Kren | |
| Norway/Iceland | Tommy Wirkola | ||
| Eyes Wide Shut | UK/USA | Stanley Kubrick | |
| The Fall of the House of Usher | France/USA | Jean Epstein | |
| Gremlins | USA | Joe Dante | |
| Housebound | New Zealand | Gerard Johnstone | |
| Late Phases | USA | Adrian Garcia Bogliano | |
| Lesson of the Evil | Japan | Takashi Miike | |
| LFO | Sweden/Denmark | Antonio Tublen | |
| Moebius | South Korea | Kim Ki-duk | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | USA | Henry Selick | |
| Nothing Bad Can Happen | Germany | Katrin Gebbe | |
| Open Windows | Spain/USA | Nacho Vigolando | |
| Ragnarok | Norway | Mikkel Brænne Sandemose | |
| R100 | Japan | Hitoshi Matsumoto | |
| Rigor Mortis | Hong Kong | Juno Mak | |
| The Sacrament | USA | Ti West | |
| Sleepwalkers | USA | Mick Garris | |
| Starry Eyes | USA | Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer | |
| The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears | Belgium / France / Luxembourg | Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani | |
| The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – 40th ANNIVERSARY RESTORATION | USA | Tobe Hooper | |
| Witching and Bitching | Spain | Alex de la Iglesia | |
| Who Can Kill a Child? | Spain | Narciso Ibáñez Serrador |
2014 Awards
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.
Selected Films
| Film | Country | Director | Additional Notes |
| The Nightmare | USA | Rodney Ascher | |
| We Are Still Here | USA | Ted Geoghegan | |
| Body | USA | Dan Berk & Robert Olsen | |
| The Boy | USA | Craig Macneill | |
| Deathgasm | New Zealand | Jason Lei Howden | |
| USA | Tim Kirk | ||
| The Final Girls | USA | Todd Strauss-Schulson | Closing Night |
| Cooties | USA | Jonathan Milott & Cary Murnion | Opening Night |
| Goodnight Mommy Ich Seh Ich Seh | Austria | Severin Fiala & Veronika Franz | |
| The Hallow | United Kingdom | Corin Hardy | |
| Hollow | Vietnam | Ham Tran | |
| The Invitation | USA | Karyn Kusama | Centerpiece |
| Let Us Prey | United Kingdom | Brian O'Malley | |
| Over Your Dead Body Kuime | Japan | Takashi Miike | |
| Scherzo Diabolico | Mexico | Adrian Garcia Bogliano | |
| Shrew's Nest Musarañas | Spain | Juanfer Andrés & Esteban Roel | |
| Some Kind Of Hate | USA | Adam Egypt Mortimer | |
| Stung | USA | TBenni Diez | |
| Sun Choke | USA | Ben Cresciman | |
| The Treatment | Belgium | Hans Herbots | |
| When Animals Dream Når Dyrene Drømmer | Denmark | Jonas Alexander Arnby | |
| Shivers | Canada | David Cronenberg | Retrospective |
| Re-Animator | USA | Stuart Gordon | Retrospective |
| The Bride Of Frankenstein | USA | James Whale | Retrospective |
| Diabolique Les Diaboliques | France | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Retrospective |
| Repulsion | United Kingdom | Roman Polanski | Retrospective |
| The Rocky Horror Picture Show | USA | Jim Sharman | Retrospective |