This Weekend, Sohome Horror Pride Celebrates All Things Queer Horror
Soho Horror Film Festival is turning grindhouse to Grindr-house from July 18 to 24, 2024 with the fifth annual Sohome Horror Pride. Get ready to celebrate all things queer horror from the comfort of your own couch with this four day online gala.
The virtual fest will feature the very best voices in LGBTQ+ filmmaking, including 11 fierce features, over 20 slay shorts, and 5 very special live events.
Opening the festival with a symphony of scares is the UK Premiere of Erlingur Thoroddsen’s The Piper, a haunting remix of the Pied Piper of Hamlin fable. Then to close the festival, Heidi Moore brings to the stage a gaggle of drag queens competing for Serial of the Year in the punk opera sleaze of Kill Dolly Kill.
Speaking of drag, Nightmare on Fierce Street honors the 50th anniversary of the John Waters’ classic Female Trouble. Then, the directors of Femme will do an exclusive live commentary of their queer revenge film. Drag icon Peaches Christ will also present her short film during a special evening hosted by Peaches Christ and her collaborator Michael Varrati.
Sohome Horror Pride will also feature screenings of queer folk horror Saint Drogo; the international debut of Sam Probst and Colby Holt’s conversion therapy chiller Ganymede; medieval revenge and sapphic redemption film Wild Eyed and Wicked; supernatural slasher The Bell Keeper; vampiric Dutch feature We Are Animal; and Ion De Sosa’s strange spider body horror Mamantula.
Trans narratives and general excellence has a special presentation in T-Shockers, a showcase of the best in trans horror at the moment; which features just a few of the short films exhibited throughout the event.
Sohome Horror Pride will also host to a special evening celebrating and bidding farewell to the female horror collective Ghouls Magazine with a series of panels, retrospectives on feminine cannibal movies, and an exclusive preview screening of Aimee Kuge’s Cannibal Mukbang.
Sohome Horror Fest: Pride Edition is a virtual film festival taking place from July 18 to 21. For accessibility and inclusivity, the festival is run on a Donate-What-You-Can price basis, with a recommended donation of £40 to help cover the costs of the festival. In addition, a proportion of all donations will be given to Mermaids UK, an organisation that provides support for Trans, Non Binary & Gender diverse youth. Much of the festival will be accessible globally but certain screenings will be geo-blocked to the UK.
Information can be at WWW.SOHOHORRORFEST.COM
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