Eric Stanze is a director, writer, editor, and producer whose films have garnered critical acclaim and forged a substantial fan base that spans the globe. Stanze also has 2nd Unit director, acting, voice-over, director of photography, and camera/electric/grip credits to his name. Stanze’s work spans independent feature films, music videos, documentaries, short films, and more. Stanze’s first-ever job on a professional shoot came at the age of 16 – he was an unpaid cue-card boy on a PSA about the dangers of drunk driving. He continued interning on local commercials and music videos from age 16 through 18. Stanze began working professionally in television, video production, and feature films in 1990 when he was only 18 years old. Since then, he has continuously earned his living exclusively in the film / video / television industry.

Filmography

• 2026Hag — Executive Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
• 2026Reaper Road — Narrator
• 2024Anxiety — Paxton Caine, Director, Story, Writer
• 2022The Man in Room 6 — Stan
• 2021Bad Animal — Gaffer
• 2019Tennessee Gothic — Camera Operator, Director of Photography
• 2018In Memory Of — Director
• 2017Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival' — Co-Producer, Editor
• 2016None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa — Editor
• 2013Sound of Nothing — Grip
• 2013We Are What We Are — Second Unit Director
• 2011Ratline — Director
• 2007Deadwood Park — Henry Channers - 1944, Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography, Editor
• 2007The Severed Head Network — The Apparition, The Prisoner (segments "Survive", "Curveball: Pile Of Junk"), Director, Producer
• 2006Savage Harvest 2: October Blood — Zack Ledanakoh
• 2005Buzz Saw — Executive Producer
• 2005Killers by Nature — Executive Producer
• 2004How Was Your Day? — Editor
• 2004Inbred Redneck Alien Abduction — Jango Binx (voice), Story, Executive Producer, Editor
• 2003China White Serpentine — Director
• 2002Insaniac — Executive Producer
• 2002Last House on Hell Street — Executive Producer, Editor
• 2001I Spit on Your Corpse, I Piss on Your Grave — Director, Writer
• 2001Strawberry Spring — Weatherman
• 2000Scrapbook — Director
• 1999Ice from the Sun — Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Editor, Camera Operator, Sound Designer
• 1994Savage Harvest — Director, Writer, Producer, Production Design
• 1992The Fine Art — Director, Writer
• 1992The Scare Game — Director, Writer

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2023Afterword: A Look Back at Scrapbook — Self
• 2021A Quarter Century Since the Harvest — Himself