Sohome Horror Pride Announces Big Gay Lineup for 2025 Festival
The world’s biggest LGBTQ+ horror film festival returns to the airways this June! Get ready for the 6th annual Sohome Horror Pride, part of the Soho Horror Film Festival! This year’s edition brings attendees a massive 10 feature films and 25 short films from around the world, showcasing the best in LGBTQ+ filmmaking.
This year’s Sohome Horror Pride event appropriately starts on Friday, June 13, 2025, and goes until June 15. With the festival starting on such an auspicious date, it only makes sense that this year’s themes in “Queering the Slasher”!
Festival director Mitch Harrod said, “Times may feel like the apocalypse with rights being revoked, sponsors jumping ship, books being banned and narratives being erased, but let the horror history books set the record straight: queer is here- always has and always will be. It is an honour always to get to stand with the forefront of the genre and especially platform so many incredible filmmakers and voices from our LGBTQ+ creatives, as well as always provide a safe space for our queer community. The festival will never not stand proud with that at its dark bleeding heart”.
So, What Feature Films Are Coming To Sohome Horror Pride?
If you come to horror for ridiculously cool kills, then look no further than Tim Connolly’s Black Theta. A gnarly flaming love letter to 00s post-modern slashers, the HOMOcidal hoot will open the festival with its European Premiere. Keeping the body count and body positivity high will be the International Premiere of The Brooklyn Butcher, a slasher that feels like Abel Ferrara made a bear-filled version of Paris. And the cabin in the woods killer trope finds feminine fury and vigilante vindication from director Mary Beth McAndrews in the wickedly fun but terrifyingly prescient Bystanders.
UK Premiere’s come thick and fast with the Fiona Douriff starring mind-bending sapphic sci-fi noir Psychonaut; a poetic and romantic sail into a vampire death cult from Aaron Pagniano with their feature debut Sunset On The River Styx; body dysmorphia takes monstrous form in the trans reckoning industrial nightmare of Binary from David-Jan Bronsgeest; and the ghosts of both hereditary fears and ancestral folklore collid in Marwan Mokbel’s haunting and healing The Judgement, made with a terrifying bravery from Egypt.
If you think you’ve seen all the Scream-inspired films out there, you clearly haven’t seen The Premiere. From writer, director, and star Sam Pezzullo, this mockumentary of a documentary of a musical of a film finds one hilariously narcissistic Scream fanatic taking a stab at stardom as he seeks to make a Broadway smash out of Ghostface.
Also screening at the festival is Parker Brennon’s chilling compendium of campfire fear Hauntology. Plus, a low-budget horror director gets lost in his work with the meta-textual nightmare There’s A Zombie Outside from Michael Varrati. Closing Sohome Horror Pride are festival favorites Kaye Adelaide and Mariel Sharpe with their feature debut The Rebrand, a hilarious evisceration of social media influence culture that you’ll be left quoting all year.
Live Events A-Plenty
Doubling down on the Scream fandom, the festival will host a live edition of the Horror Queers, where the hosts Trace Thurman and Joe Lipsett will hold a live commentary of Scream 3 and finally settle the score: are Gail Weather’s bangs really that bad?
The festival will also host two exclusive live events as part of its slasher focus. ‘FriGay The 13th’ is a tongue-in-cheek journey through the queerest moments in slasher history. Then, for the 40th anniversary of the “gayest horror ever made”, A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, there will be a very special homage to and revision of the film featuring guests and surprises in the unmissable Jesse’s Revenge.
Sohome Horror Pride is an online film festival taking place from June 13 to June 15. For accessibility and inclusivity, the festival is run on a Pay-What-You-Can price basis, with a recommended donation of £50 to help cover the costs of the festival.
In addition, a proportion of all donations will be given to Not A Phase, a charity that provides support for Trans, Non-Binary, and Gender diverse adults across the UK. Much of the festival will be accessible globally, but certain screenings will be geo-blocked to the UK.
Full Information can be found at WWW.SOHOHORRORFEST.COM
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