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The New York City Horror Film Festival was established by Michael J. Hein in 2001. It takes place each year in New York City for a week in October or November and specializes in the horror film genre.

The festival is a competitive one, showing 60 films in 2005. Awards are as follows:

• Best Feature Film
• Best Short Film
• Best Cinematography
• Best Special Effects
• Best Actor
• Best Actress
• Best Screenplay
• Audience Choice

Contents 1 Lifetime Achievement Award 2 Awards 2.1 2008 2.2 2007 2.3 2006 2.4 2005 2.5 2004 3 Non-competition screenings 3.1 2007 3.2 2006 3.3 2005 3.4 2004 4 Guests 4.1 2007 4.2 2006 4.3 2005 4.4 2004 4.5 2003 4.6 2002 5 See also 5.1 Genre film festivals 6 External links

[edit] Lifetime Achievement Award

Since 2002, The New York City Horror Film Festival has given the Lifetime Achievement Award to one legendary horror filmmaker each year.

Recipients are as follows:

• 2009 - William Lustig
• 2008 - Frank Henenlotter
• 2007 - Herschell Gordon Lewis
• 2006 - Mick Garris
• 2005 - Roger Corman
• 2004 - Tobe Hooper
• 2003 - Tom Savini
• 2002 - George A. Romero

[edit] Awards

2009

Best Feature - The Revenant

Best Director - D. Kerry Prior / The Revenant

Best Short - Eric Scherbarth / Sinkhole

Best Actor - (Tie) David Anders & Chris Wylde / The Revenant

Best Actress - Ellia English / Cornered

Best Cinematography - Pier Luigi Santi / The Shadow Within

Best Special Effects - Sweatshop

Best Screenplay (submitted film) - Andreas Schaap / Must Love Death

Best Screenplay - Vincent Ho & Stan Shaw / Gargoyle

Audience Choice - The Revenant

[edit] 2008

• Best Feature - Frank Henenlotter's Bad Biology
• Best Director - Jennifer Chambers Lynch, Surveillance
• Best Short - Nathan Bezner's Altar
• Best Cinematography - Stephanie Martin, The Objective
• Best Screenplay (submitted) - Jason Contino, "Remake"
• Best Screenplay for a Submitted Film - Nacho Vigalondo, Timecrimes
• Best Special Effects - Gabriel Bartalos, Bad Biology
• Best Actor - Dameon Clarke, How to be a Serial Killer
• Best Actress - Ryan Simpkins, Surveillance
• Audience Choice Award: Short - Jason Eisener's Treevenge
• Audience Choice Award: Feature - Nacho Vigalondo's Timecrimes

[edit] 2007

• Best Feature - Botched
• Best Short - Criticized
• Best Cinematography - Nobody
• Best Screenplay - Death of a Ghost Hunter
• Best Special Effects - Seed
• Best Actor - Stephen Dorff - Botched
• Best Actress - Masha Wattanapanich - Alone
• Audience Choice Award - DARA

[edit] 2006

• Best Feature - Fingerprints
• Best Short - Happy Birthday To U
• Best Screenplay - Last Rites of the Dead
• Best Cinematography - The Marsh
• Best Special Effects - The Marsh
• Best Actor - Robert "Opal" Oppel - Rapturious
• Best Actress - Gina Ramsden - Last Rites of the Dead
• Audience Choice Award - Eddie Loves You

[edit] 2005

• Best Feature - The Dark Hours
• Best Short - Zombie Movie
• Best Screenplay - Headspace
• Best Cinematography - Headspace
• Best Special Effects - Neighborhood Watch
• Best Actor - Jason Campbell - Nightmare
• Best Actress - Nicole Roderick - Nightmare
• Audience Choice Award - Roadkill

[edit] 2004

• Best Feature - The Last Horror Movie
• Best Short - Herbie
• Best Screenplay - The Ghouls
• Best Cinematography - London Voodoo
• Best Special Effects - Cube Zero
• Best Actor - Kevin Howarth - The Last Horror Movie
• Audience Choice Award - Unwelcome

[edit] Non-competition screenings

[edit] 2007

• Hostel
• Two Thousand Maniacs!

[edit] 2006

• The Devil's Rejects
• Masters of Horror episode Valerie on the Stairs
• Masters of Horror episode The Damned Thing
• Zombi 2

[edit] 2005

• Jaws
• Masters of Horror episode Incident On and Off a Mountain Road
• Mortuary
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Tamara
• The Masque of the Red Death
• Three...Extremes
• Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

[edit] 2004

• Mad Monster Party?
• Satan's Little Helper
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• Toolbox Murders

[edit] Guests

[edit] 2007

• Eli Roth
• Herschell Gordon Lewis

[edit] 2006

• Tony Todd was presented with a special award for "Excellence In Acting" in horror films
• Mick Garris was presented the Lifetime Achievement Award
• Ken Foree
• Betsy Palmer
• Michael Gingold
• Joe Kane
• William Lustig
• Jack Ketchum

[edit] 2005

• Roger Corman, who received the Lifetime Achievement Award
• Don Coscarelli
• Angus Scrimm
• Michael Gingold
• Armand Mastroianni
• William Lustig

[edit] 2004

• Tobe Hooper received the Lifetime Achievement Award
• Amanda Plummer

[edit] 2003

• Tom Savini received the Lifetime Achievement Award
• Lloyd Kaufman
• Joe Bob Briggs
• Michael Ruggerio

[edit] 2002

• George A. Romero to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award
• Felissa Rose
• Lloyd Kaufman

[edit] See also

[edit] Genre film festivals

• European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation
• Festival de Cine de Sitges
• Fantasia Festival
• Toronto After Dark Film Festival
• Fantastic Fest
• Dead by Dawn
• TromaDance

[edit] External links

• NYC Horror Fest official site