Soho Horror Film Festival's annual virtual pride event, Sohome Horror Pride, has announced its line-up for the 2024 edition.
The festival includes a selection of twenty short films, eleven feature-length offerings, and five special live events. The programme will also be made available online.
The festival will open with the UK premiere of Erlingur Thoroddsen's The Piper (2023), a retelling of the Pied Piper of Hamlin fable set to a score from Christopher Young. Sohome Horror Pride will also host a live show celebrating the breadth of horror film musical adaptations, with exclusive performances.
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Additionally, Sohome will celebrate the 50th anniversary of John Waters' Female Trouble (1974) starring Divine. The screening will be hosted by the Nightmare on Fierce Street Podcast, alongside an exclusive director's commentary screening of Femme (2023).
Queer folk horror Saint Drogo (2023) will feature in the festival's celebration of drag alongside a special evening with Peaches Christ. Christ will present her short films alongside collaborator Michael Varrati.
The festival's ‘Coming (out) of (r)age horror' programming includes the international debut of Sam Probst and Colby Holt's conversion therapy chiller Ganymede (2024) and the medieval sapphic redemption flick Wild Eyed and Wicked (2023) from GB Foxwood.
The twisted Brazilian melodrama House of Izabel (2022) by Gil Baroni is also included. Heidi Moore's Kill Dolly Kill (2023) closes the festival.
Sohome Horror Pride will also play host to a special evening celebrating and bidding farewell to the female horror collective Ghouls Magazine. This will include a series of panels, retrospectives on feminine cannibal movies, and an exclusive preview screening of Aimee Kuge's Cannibal Mukbang (2023).
A proportion of all festival donations are given to Mermaids UK, a charity supporting transgender and non-binary young people.
Sohome Horror Pride 2024 will run from the 11th to the 14th of July 2024.
