[4] Several years later, the festival offered a special world premiere screening of Roger Corman's The Fall of the House of Usher (1960) which had been restored and in high definition.
Festival director Shawn Drywa presented the winners with a small statuette "a gold witch on a broom mounted on a pumpkin sprouting from a solid marble base".
by Caleb Emerson (Best New England), Bone Sickness by Brian Paulin (Best Makeup FX), and Camp Blood: The Musical by Tanner Barklow, Jefferson Craig and Thomas Hughes (Audience Award).
[20] Special guests for the festival included Gary Howard Klar (Day of the Dead), Paul Kratka (Friday the 13th Part III), and The Atlantic Paranormal Society.
[18] The 2007 Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival saw the New England premieres of two documentaries: the award-winning Kreating Karloff by Vatche Arabian and Vampira the Movie by Kevin Sean Michaels.
[22][23] Family Portrait, produced by Pittsburgh filmmakers Matt Bonacci and Anthony Colliano, were among the multiple horror shorts and zombie films shown that year.
[25] Among these were Blackspot, a New Zealand horror film which had won an award at the RIIFF two months earlier,[26] and Scott Bunt's surreal Sea of Dust then making its U.S.
Lovecraft short story of the same name, Devi Snively's Death in Charge and Ryan Spindell's Kirksdale, with the latter two films receiving high praise.
[28] Other films at the festival were Christian Vampires from Suburbia, A Hood in the Woods, Trailer Park of Terror and Jeffrey Schwarz award-winning documentary Spine Tingler!
Also at the event were co-directors Joe DiGiorgi and Anthony Salerno of Headline Studio, where they promoted Sion Sono's Exte: Hair Extensions, and author K. Patrick Malone.
[30] The opening night of the 2010 Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival featured a special world premiere of Roger Corman's The Fall of the House of Usher (1960), recently restored version and in high definition, starring Vincent Price.
Among the festival selections were Absentia, An Evening With My Comatose Mother, Cabine of the Dead, Hatch,[34] Paths of Hate, State of Emergency, and an exclusive screening of Wes Craven's Scream 4.
[35] The RIIHFF's "Behind the Camera Lens" featured actor William Forsythe, director Glenn Ciano, and producer Chad A. Verdi of the horror film Inkubus.
The cast and crew from eight of the international entries attended the festival including director Kevin and Shanna MacDonald ("Beg"), Marc Masciandaro ("Imposter"), producer Augustin Fuentes and writer-director Devi Snively ("Last Seen on Delores Street"), Matteo Bernardini ("Vampyre Compendium").
[36] In spite of the dangerous weather conditions posed by the approaching Hurricane Sandy, the 2012 Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival went ahead as scheduled.
[37] The 2012 festival offered feature films Darren Lynn Bousman's The Barrens, starring Stephen Moyer and Mia Kirshner, Richard Griffin's Exhumed with Evalena Marie and Sarah Nicklin, and Casey Walker's A Little Bit Zombie, an award-winning comedy horror with Kristopher Turner, Crystal Lowe, and Shawn Roberts.
[37] In attendance were the cast and crew from six of the international entries as well as writer-directors Richard Griffin ("Exhumed"), Derek Dubois ("Fallout"), Billy Hayes ("Franky and the Ant"), director Tom Gliserman and composer Will Severin ("The Thing on the Doorstep"), and Jet Wintzer ("Towers").
At the conclusion of the tour, guests often have been invited to special screenings at the Providence's historic Columbus Theater, where Lovecraft himself was an avid moviegoer, to see films inspired by the author's stories.