Soho Horror Film Festival Unleashes Its Wildest Line-Up Yet

The Soho Horror Film Festival is back this November with its biggest and most outrageous edition yet, unveiling a monstrous 2025 lineup that promises to push boundaries, test stomachs and thrill genre fans across two weekends of cinematic carnage. Now in its seventh year, the award-winning event once again takes over Brixton’s Coldharbour Blue Cinema from 21 to 23 November, followed by a four-day digital edition, the Sohome Horror Film Festival, running from 27 to 30 November.

This year’s programme includes nearly one hundred films spanning the gruesome, the hilarious and the gloriously bizarre. The festival will begin with a special preview night featuring the London premiere of Tina Romero’s Queens of the Dead, a zombie drag queen extravaganza that resurrects the undead in full glitter and heels. From there, things take a gothic turn with the in-person opening film, Dracula: A Love Tale, a lavish reinterpretation of Bram Stoker’s classic from Luc Besson, starring Christoph Waltz and Caleb Landry Jones, with a score by Danny Elfman.

The lineup reflects a strong year for horror internationally, with themes of resurrection, revenge and surrealism running throughout. We Bury the Dead, led by Daisy Ridley, offers an emotional twist on the zombie formula, while Silencio delivers a provocative, queer spin on vampirism. Grace Glowicki’s Dead Lover closes the in-person festival with grotesque humour and macabre energy.

Soho continues to pride itself on discovery, and the 2025 edition is brimming with premieres. Highlights include Markian Tarasiuk’s unnerving mockumentary Hunting Matthew Nichols, Katherine Dudas’s chaotic Theater Is Dead, and the splashy Hot Spring Shark Attack, proving that even spa treatments aren’t safe from cinematic horror.

Returning filmmakers also feature prominently, including Jay Burleson with Kenneled, a disturbing canine-themed thriller, and Addison Heiman with Touch Me, a tentacular exploration of sexuality that made waves at Sundance. Shane Brady’s Hacked: A Double Entendre of Rage Fueled Karma blends dark comedy with brutal retribution, while Cassie Keet returns with Abigail Before Beatrice, a psychological study of cult trauma.

The virtual Sohome edition brings its own eccentric energy, with Patricio Valladares’s What the Tide Dragged In offering Lovecraftian nightmares, and Emily Bennett’s Blood Shine tackling religious mania with hallucinatory flair. The event will also feature the European premiere of The Misadventures of Vince and Hick, a pulpy, action-packed crime horror, alongside the surrealist found-footage closer Alan at Night.

Balancing the contemporary and the nostalgic, the festival also resurrects decades past with Lead Belly, Making Megaforce, and Jump Scare, a loving homage to 1970s midnight movies. For the truly daring, Matt Stuertz’s Human and Becca Kozak’s Sugar Rot promise to redefine the meaning of body horror.

Over fifty short films round out the festival’s offering, featuring appearances from genre favourites such as Lena Headey, Doug Jones and creative duo Benson & Morehead. With its mix of premieres, cult revivals and inventive new voices, the Soho Horror Film Festival continues to prove why it’s one of the UK’s most vital genre showcases.

Tickets and passes for both the in-person and online events are now available via sohohorrorfest.com