Biggest Soho Horror Fest Ever!!!

The curtain is opening again as your puppeteers of fear, the Soho Horror Film Festival,

returns this November. Today the award winning festival is here to announce their

biggest ever lineup. Spread over two weekends and boasting distinct film lineups: the

festival returns to the Coldharbour Blue Cinema, Brixton for its big screen theatrical

event, followed by a 4 day long home-invasion of unique screenings online. And with

over 75 of the very best films from the farthest reaches of contemporary genre cinema

ready to take over your minds, we ask the question: are you their audience or their

puppets now?

Opening the festival in bombastic fashion will be the International Premiere of giant

spider shocker DON’T MOVE. A painkiller in these challenging times, horror comedy as

a subgenre runs particularly rampant through this year’s lineup, so it is a perfect match

to raise the festival curtains with the debut feature from the team behind comedic

geniuses at Impractical Jokers. And while there’s plenty of laughs, don’t go thinking

you’ll escape this screening without show-stopping skin-crawling creepy crawlies in the

flesh.

Sides will further split from the unhinged and jet black comedy Aussie cult tale THE

FOX- which among many things features Olivia Colman as the fully practical titular

puppet and a particularly vulgar magpie; while the funniest vampire film since What We

Do In The Shadows is here with Nicky Murphy’s acerbic take on A Star Is Born as a

French rapper refuses to let her newfound blood lust get in the way of festival headlining

fame in I LOVE PARIS. Penile trauma and femme fury unite with the European Premiere

of Heath Benfield’s cum-pendium MR CREAMJEANS’HIDEY HOLE and the Hallmark

Channel romantic dream get abducted and probed in Evan Buxbaum & Drew Mylrea’s

gooey INTO THE SKY, which will have it’s International Premiere.

Not to let frights take a backseat, the festival will present the UK Premiere’s of Alison-

Eve Hammersley’s media mystery ERIE, where found footage finds fear in the forest, communion heists, the vast expanses of a fog covered ocean is a breeding ground for

the ghosts of our past in HANGASHORE, modern day paranoia and spectral Jeff Bezos

in the Jamie Lee Curtis produced powerhouse SENDER, and a romantic getaway THAT

poses the question: what’s scarier, the devil you know and trust or the devil you don’t

and rust in John Veron’s twisted desert folk terror GODMOTHER.

Jumping around both the globe and history is always a film festival must, and spanning

this year’s theatrical event are 17th century Basque demonics in Paul Urkijo Alijo’s THE

NIGHT, into the bible-belt for fanatical fundamentalism that puts the ‘holy’ in ‘holy fuck’

with festival fave Mark H Rapaport’s GODHEAD, to Greece for a dive into the scathingly

stark reckoning of domestic nightmares in the UK Premiere of Louiza Zouzias’ BE A

GOOD GIRL, back to the pre-medieval fantasy epics of swords and sandals for KYLGOR

IN THE GRISLY ABYSS which definitely cannot guarantee that no puppets were harmed

in the making of this movie, before jetsetting all the way down under for the theatrical

festival’s closing night film, the European Premiere of Michael Schwarz’s bleeding heart

slasher THE ONLY ONE.

For those that can’t make it to the depths of London, the festival also boasts a unique

and expansive virtual lineup that is somehow even more funny and fear filled. There’s

extraterrestrial carjacking in punk rock THE VANISHING TOUR, a downward spiral in

pursuit of self-love in Jackie Kelly’s remarkable HAG, the nihilistic and staggeringly

violent fight for survival through Korea’s criminal underbelly in DEBONE from Lee Dae-

han, reality and sitcom TV blur in Truman Show like hypnotics in LIFE AT SANDYS, Chedey Reyes gonzo THE THING IN THE FOG which finds two pilots trapped in a

cosmic storm of campy terror, real life horrors in the nuanced documentary of mental

illness and disability reclamation in the world of Halloween haunts in THE HAUNTING

OF PENNHURST, influencers vs ghost hunters in the Doug Jones starring future classic

DEMONETIZE, Dusty Saunders answering the question of: what if Gaspar Noe made a

Pixar movie in the bonkers animation BIG CITY PIZZA, exquisitely snarky and

unpredictable whodunnit THE DAUGHTERS OF THE DOMINO and genuinely shit

pantingly scary footage found in THIS HOUSE IS TOTALLY HAUNTED. All of which will

be receiving their UK Premieres at the festival.

Presenting exclusive online opportunities to watch some recent festival favourites

includes Kyle Mangione Smith’s nightmare surveillance nasty COMPLIANCE, Annabella

Rich’s showing off how staggering the UK indie genre scene can be with her deeply

moving THE DEATH OF US, fresh from its World Premiere there’s the atmospheric and

haunting love letter to 70s ghost stories THEY ALWAYS COME AT NIGHT and the sequel

to 2023 lost footage Chilean chiller comes with the black metal tinged INVOKING

SCREAM. The virtual premiere of Stewart Sparke’s aquatic monster mashup DEAD

RESET will form the centrepiece of a festival strand focussing on video games in horror,

that will also feature a live interactive choose-your-own-adventure horror film from

Jason Trost called AFAR, and an expansive panel on the intersection of this subject and

a secret retrospective screening of an unseen video game adaptation classic. And

drawing both aspects of the festivals together, the virtual event will also platform a

strand on theatrical horror that will feature a special preview of Severin’s brand new

documentary THEATRE OF HORRORS: THE SORDID STORY OF PARIS’ GRAND

GUIGNOL and the UK Premiere of Kaitlyn Boye’s twisted two handed showstopper

BREAK A LEG.

And if all of that wasn’t enough, the festival will also play stage to over 50 of the genres

best short films that include the latest from Caye Casas (director of the infamous THE

COFFEE TABLE), THE WORM which stars LEVITICUS breakout Joe Bird, Emily Bennet’s

THE CRYING MAN which features genre legends Toby Poser and Larry Fessenden,

alongside the usual bounty of stripper priests, time travelling bin bags, dinosaurs,

demon summoning kittens, and of course plenty of exploding penises.

So cut the puppet strings, and get yourself to Soho Horror Fest 2026, as tickets, festival

passes and online passes are on sale now! The Soho Horror Film Festival will run from

20th-22nd November at the Coldharbour Blue Cinema in Brixton, London. The online

Sohome Horror Film Festival will run from 26th to the 29th November. Full details on all

the films on show, festival accessibility and ticket options can be found at