Sohome Horror Pride 2024 Lineup Announcement
Turning grindhouse to Grindr-house, the award winning Soho Horror Film Festival returns to present its 5th annual virtual celebration of all things queer horror with SOHOME HORROR PRIDE 2024.
A 4 day online gala of gayness that will take a chainsaw to heteronormativity and bring you the very best voices in LGBTQ+ filmmaking. Featuring 11 fierce features, over 20 slay shorts, and 5 very special live events, all broadcasting an onslaught of sickening cinema straight to your screens at home.
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, featuring genre legends in the form of a stunning score from Christopher Young and one of the final performances from the incredible Julian Sands. Keeping things in a melodic mood, the event will also host a live show celebrating the breadth of horror film musical adaptations with exclusive performances. Then to close the festival, dialling up the distortion and turning down the good taste, 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; guaranteed to leave you Troma-tised.
Drag finds it’s horror centre stage this year with a 50th anniversary honouring of Divine and John Waters’ infamous classic FEMALE TROUBLE from Nightmare on Fierce Street Podcast, and an exclusive live director’s commentary of last year’s viciously vogue FEMME. From the directors of drag horror cult classic DEATH DROP GORGEOUS comes a whole new leviathan in SAINT DROGO: a horny, ethereal, queer folk horror that lures you in with its rural beauty and then gnaws your throat out. Drag queen genre icon Peaches Christ will present a special evening of her short films alongside collaborator Michael Varrati for Midnight Mass.
Coming (out) of (r)age horror sets to terrify on many levels in the international debut of Sam Probst and Colby Holt’s conversion therapy chiller GANYMEDE; medieval revenge and sapphic redemption collide in WILD EYED AND WICKED from GB Foxwood; and supernatural slashers in the Chaz Bono and Bonnie Aarons starring direct-to-noughties-DVD throwback THE BELL KEEPER. Also finding their UK Premiere at the festival is the tender yet viscerally vampiric Dutch feature WE ARE ANIMALS; and if you’re not over spider cinema yet in 2024, steel yourself for the strangest body horror you’ll see all year in Ion De Sosa’s euro satire MAMANTULA.
The forging and security of identity is a prevalent theme across the lineup, but especially so in a special preview of Nicholas Vince’s one man show cinematic adaptation I AM MONSTERS! and the colonialist camp of Gil Baroni’s HOUSE OF IZABEL, a twisted Brazilian 60’s set melodrama where male-presenting individuals escape to a country estate to explore their feminine personas. Trans narratives and general excellence has a special presentation in T-Shockers, a showcase of the best in trans horror at the moment; just a few of almost 30 short films being exhibited throughout the event.
Sohome Horror Pride will also play host to 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.
So get your glitter ready, scream me by your name, and join us this July. From its inception in 2018, the Soho Horror Film Festival has held LGBTQ+ visibility, inclusivity and celebration as one of its cornerstones.
Sohome Horror Fest: Pride Edition is a virtual film festival taking place from the 11TH-14TH July. 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