Richard Stanley is a South African filmmaker, known for his work in the horror genre. He began his career making short films and music videos, and subsequently directed the feature films Hardware and Dust Devil, both of which are considered cult classics.

Filmography

• 2020Color Out of Space — Director, Screenplay
• 2017Replace — Writer
• 2016Blood of the Tribades — Thanks
• 2013The Otherworld — Self, Director, Writer, Associate Producer
• 2011The Theatre Bizarre — Screenplay, Director
• 2009Imago Mortis — Writer
• 2009No Flesh Shall Be Spared
• 2007Vampire Diary — Spanish Rapist
• 2006The Abandoned — Screenplay
• 2006The Sea of Perdition — Director
• 2003Europe - 99euro-films 2 — Director, Writer, Line Producer
• 2002The White Darkness — Director, Producer
• 2001Dagon — Fish Monster (uncredited)
• 2001The Secret Glory — Producer, Writer, Director
• 1996The Island of Dr. Moreau — Bulldog Man (uncredited), Screenplay
• 1995Twelve Monkeys — Man in Transit Lounge (uncredited)
• 1994Brave — Man in the table (uncredited), Director, Writer
• 1992Dust Devil — Transforming Dust Devil in Dream Sequence (uncredited), Director, Writer
• 1990Hardware — Talking elevator (voice) (uncredited), Director, Writer
• 1990Voice of the Moon — Director
• 1985Incidents in an Expanding Universe — Clean Shaven Pretentious Filmmaker / Greasy Beggar / Green Army Gunner / 3-Eyed Mutant / Green Army Flag Bearer / Alien Vendor, Director, Writer
• 1983Rites of Passage — Primordial Man, Director, Writer
• Dunwich — Screenplay, Director
• Malware — Director, Writer
• Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble — Balthazar Von Woozle, Writers' Assistant
• The Palace — Executive Producer
• Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 3 — Balthazar Von Woozle, Writer

Appearances as themselves (18)

• 2025A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' — Self
• 2025The Dark Fantastic — Self
• 2025Zone — Self
• 2024Shadowland — Self - Filmmaker
• 2023The Darkside of Society — Self
• 2021Exegesis Lovecraft — Self
• 2020Tales of the Uncanny — Self
• 2018Clark Ashton Smith: The Emperor of Dreams — Self
• 201778/52 — Self
• 2017Cult of Terror — Self - Filmmaker
• 2016Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo — Self
• 2015Uncovering Wolfen — Self
• 2014All About the Girl: Memories of a Giallo Gem — self
• 2014Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau — Self
• 2013Jodorowsky's Dune — Self - Filmmaker
• 2009Post Traumatic: An American Nightmare — Self
• 2001In the Belly of the Beast — Self
• Fantastic Women — Self