by Mo Moshaty
The award-winning Soho Horror Film Festival is one of the UK’s most unique and inclusive genre festivals, embracing the belief that horror is for everyone. Dedicated to championing independent films and providing a safe, welcoming space for the horror community, Soho Horror Fest proudly waves the flag for diversity, with a strong focus on LGBTQ+ representation. With both an in-person festival in Soho every November and a virtual edition during the pandemic and beyond, the festival has become a vital source of entertainment and connection. Join Soho Horror this Fall for a thrilling mix of horror, dark fantasy, and queer cinema!
This November, the Soho Horror Film Festival roars back for its 7th anniversary, ready to thrill fearless film lovers with their next favorite scare. Early bird full festival passes are on sale now, along with a sneak peek at the 2024 lineup.
Fresh off a record-breaking Pride edition, the festival continues its commitment to spotlighting LGBTQ+ filmmakers, including the International Premiere of Michael Varrati’s feature debut THERE’S A ZOMBIE OUTSIDE. This twisted, smart, and sexy meta-horror stars Ben Baur, Tiffany Sheppis, and Peaches Christ, blending anxiety-ridden reality with gory fiction in a bloody cinematic nightmare.
For virtual festival-goers, Sohome Horror Fest 2024 offers CARNAGE FOR CHRISTMAS, a slasher from festival favorite Alice Maio Mackay, where a true-crime podcaster confronts a vengeful urban legend. Also screening exclusively online is Graham Skipper’s THE LONELY MAN WITH THE GHOST MACHINE, a Christmastime reflection on mortality featuring the last man on earth grappling with annihilation.
Expect more electrifying films, like Isaac Ezban’s dystopian horror PARVULOS and Christopher Bickel’s psychedelic acid-trip thriller PATER NOSTER AND THE MISSION OF LIGHT, alongside UK premieres of shorts like SKEETER, STAN BEHAVIOUR in which a drag queen embarks on a quest for better workplace rights, but finds herself in a dicey situation and PARTY TIME, where clowns plot a Beanie Baby heist during a satanic birthday ritual!
From 22-24 November, join the festival in Brixton’s Whirled Cinema for 3 days of chills and thrills, or catch the virtual screenings from 28 November – 1 December. Don’t miss out—mark your calendars for the full lineup reveal on 11th October, and grab your early bird passes now!
Mo Moshaty is an acclaimed horror writer, lecturer, and producer whose work combines visceral storytelling with the psychological insight of her Cognitive Behavioral Therapy background. She has lectured internationally, including as a keynote speaker at Nightmares from Monkeypaw: A Jordan Peele Symposium (Prairie View A&M), No Return: A Yellowjackets Symposium (Horror Studies BAFSS Sig), The Whole Damn Swarm: Celebrating 30 Years of Candyman (University of California), and with the Centre for the History of the Gothic (University of Sheffield). Mo has also presented at the BFI, Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, and Final Girls Berlin Film Festival’s Brain Binge on women’s trauma in horror cinema, Cine-Excess on The Creepy Kid Horror Subgenre and Mother/Daughter Trauma in Horror, and Romancing the Gothic on Cosmic Horror’s Havoc on The Body Electric Her short film, 13 Minutes of Horror: Sci-Fi Horror, won the 2022 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Short Film. As a core producer with Nyx Horror Collective, Mo co-created the 13 Minutes of Horror Film Fest and partnered with Shudder in 2021 and 2022, while also establishing a Stowe Story Labs fellowship supporting women creatives over 40+ in horror. A member of the Black Women in Horror Class of 2023 and featured in 160 Black Women in Horror, Mo’s short fiction appears in A Quaint and Curious Volume of Gothic Tales (Brigid’s Gate Press) and 206 Word Stories (Bag O’ Bones Press). Her debut novella, Love the Sinner, was released July 5, 2024, with Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment released in October 2025. The first of her five-volume non-fiction series, The Annex of the Obscure: The Afterlife, will be released in 2027 from Tenebrous Press. As the Editor-in-Chief of NightTide Magazine and founder of Mourning Manor Media, Mo champions marginalized voices in horror. Under her leadership, NightTide plans to launch a film festival in 2028, furthering her mission to reshape the genre through inclusivity and representation.
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