The GASP! X SCENE Queer All-Dayer lineup is here!. On August 16th, we will be teaming up with @SCENE_Festival and returning to @CPXMCR to present a day full of queer horror greatness!. Poster artwork by Nathan Rose.

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Each year, we showcase the latest short and feature-length horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and thriller films written, directed, and/or produced by female filmmakers, the LGBTQIA+ community, people of colour, people with disabilities, and foreign language filmmakers.

SUBMISSIONS FOR GASP! 2026 ARE NOW OPEN! . The fourth year of GASP! will take place at @CPXMCR on June 26th-28th, 2026, and submissions are now open via FilmFreeway!

Single tickets, day passes and full lineup details for the GASP! X SCENE Queer All-Dayer, taking place at Cultplex on August 16th, are available now over at .

Written and directed by William Friedkin, director of The Exorcist, this bizarre, gritty and intense piece of 80s cult cinema has a phenomenal soundtrack, eerie cinematography and many iconic scenes that’ll guarantee you will never look at Al Pacino in the same way ever again.

Camp, creepy, and controversial, Cruising is arguably one of the most important pieces of queer film history, so it only feels right that GASP! and @SCENE_Festival celebrate its 45th anniversary at the Queer All Dayer.

You can check out the full lineup details, and grab your single tickets and day passes over at

Taking place at our home of Cultplex on August 16th from 12pm, we’re very proud to bring you this stacked lineup for a day of celebrating queer genre cinema as part of the buildup for Manchester Pride!.

Not long to go now until we team up with SCENE to bring you a day full of queer horror short and feature-length films, including multiple premieres, a mystery film, a 45th anniversary screening of Cruising in 4K, and more!

RT @CPXMCR: Always one of our favourite slots. we might die from anticipation!.

Single tickets, day passes and full lineup details for the GASP! X SCENE Queer All-Dayer are available now over at .

A staple of GASP! Horror Film Festival, this is a screening of a queer horror classic that is either about queer people, made by queer people or containing queer allegories – that’s all that the GASP! team are willing to tell you… To give any more away would ruin the surprise.

A revelation that casts doubt and unsettles the conversation. The UK Premiere of Stella Anyways will close the Short Film Showcase at the GASP! X SCENE Queer All-Dayer on August 16th - single tickets, day passes & full lineup details are available over at

In a Parisian square, three high school girls, Stella, Mila, and Elsa, share their experiences and desires. When Stella speaks up, her confession is intriguing: she is in a secret relationship with someone who has neither a phone nor a real identity, only a pseudonym. (1/2)

Friend Shaped will have its International Premiere as part of the Short Film Showcase at the GASP! X SCENE Queer All-Dayer on August 16th - head over to for single tickets, day passes and full lineup details!.

Carla’s insistence on the “thing” in the basement is met with disbelief and scorn until one fatal night when what lurks in the dark emerges into the shaky light.

After Carla and her roommates move into her late Grandmother’s home, Carla discovers that there is more in the basement than old furniture and cobwebs. Their uneasy peace is tested as tensions rise.

In the meantime, you can grab your single tickets or a day pass for the Queer All-Dayer we are hosting on August 16th in collaboration with @SCENE_Festival at @CPXMCR as part of the buildup to @ManchesterPride —head over to to check it out!.

If you’re a writer, director, or producer within a marginalised community and you have a brand-new short or feature-length horror, sci-fi, fantasy, or thriller film, head over to on August 1st!.

It’s officially just one week to go until submissions reopen for year four of GASP! 2026, and we cannot wait to see what you all have for us!