International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival

Annual film festival in Arizona

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International Horror and Sci-Fi Film FestivalLocation| Tempe, Arizona, United States

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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.

## 2024 festival awards[3]

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* 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

## 2023 festival awards[3]

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* 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

## 2022 festival awards[3]

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

## 2021 festival awards[3]

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* 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

## 2020 festival awards[3]

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* 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

## 2019 festival awards[3]

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* 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

## 2018 festival awards[3]

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* 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

## 2017 festival awards[3]

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* 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

## 2016 festival awards[3]

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* 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

## 2015 festival awards[3]

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

## 2014 festival awards[3]

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* 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

## 2013 festival awards[3]

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* 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

## 2012 festival awards[3]

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* 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

## 2011 festival awards[3]

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* 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[4]

## 2010 festival awards[3]

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* 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[5]
* Lance Henriksen[6]

## 2009 festival awards[3]

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* 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[7]
* Judith O'Dea[8]
* Casper Van Dien[9]

## 2008 festival awards[3]

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* 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[10]
* Adrienne King[11]

## 2007 festival awards[3]

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* 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[12]
* Ken Foree[13]

## 2006 festival awards

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### Hall of fame

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* Mick Garris \- The Stand, Masters of Horror

### Sci-fi awards

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* 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

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* 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[14]
* 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

## 2005 festival awards

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### Hall of fame

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

## See also

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* List of fantastic and horror film festivals

## References

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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. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "Awards". International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. 2011-11-21. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
4. ^ "Heather Langenkamp — 2011 IHSS Hall of Fame Inductee". International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. 2011-11-21. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
5. ^ "Charles Cyphers — 2010 IHSFF Hall of Fame Inductee". International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. 2010-11-21. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
6. ^ "Lance Henriksen — 2010 IHSFF Hall of Fame Inductee". International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. 2010-11-21. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
7. ^ "Marilyn Burns — 2009 IHSFF Hall of Fame Inductee". International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. 2009-01-26. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
8. ^ "Judith O'Dea — 2009 IHSFF Hall of Fame Inductee". International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. 2009-01-26. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
9. ^ "Casper Van Dien — 2009 IHSFF Hall of Fame Inductee". International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. 2009-01-26. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
10. ^ "Jeffrey Combs — 2008 IHSFF Hall of Fame Inductee". International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. 2008-11-20. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
11. ^ "Adrienne King — 2008 IHSFF Hall of Fame Inductee". International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. 2008-01-26. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
12. ^ "Linda Blair — 2007 IHSFF Hall of Fame Inductee". International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. 2007-01-26. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
13. ^ "Ken Foree — 2007 IHSFF Hall of Fame Inductee". International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. 2007-11-20. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
14. ^ Jackson, Mike, Dial 'A' for Alphaman (Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy), Steam Powered Films, retrieved 2021-10-14

## External links

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* Official website