GASP! takes place during summer each year, but we are not against providing autumnal vibes a few months early, and that’s exactly what Don’t Let the Cat Out delivers! Tim Cruz’s creepy Halloween-set slasher film is guaranteed to have you on the edge of your seat with its excellent pacing, intense set pieces, amusingly dark humour, and terrifying cat costumes. It’s a deeply personal tale of grief a...

This year, GASP! will present five Short Film Showcases, starting with the opening night showcase that features all things camp, creepy, thought provoking, and unsettling whilst working as a great example of what you can expect from the festival as a whole. From witches in the Dark Ages to a killer orange and from gooey French body horror to found footage with a terrifying serial killer, this show...

When a couple's phones begin recording on their own during a camping trip, what they capture isn't just darkness. It's something that wants to be seen. Samuel Freeman created Don’t Look in the Dark with one goal in mind: to create a theatrical experience like no other, and that is certainly what has been achieved here. An inventive found footage film that feels like a mashup of The Blair Witch Pr...

After screening many short animated films throughout the first three years of GASP!, this year, they’re showing their first ever animated feature film! Fox & the Tiny Demon is a film filled with heart that tackles important themes whilst taking its viewer on an adventure with two utterly adorable and loveable characters. It’s the first animated feature film in the Wolastoqey language and created w...

Returning for its second year, GASP! are so proud to once again showcase some of the best and most exciting new filmmakers from around the world. Featuring fantastic shorts from Japan, France, Peru, Spain and Croatia to name a few, this showcase provides animation, hard hitting and thought provoking themes, horror comedy, disturbing body horror, a mind bending sci-fi epic, an exploration into a fa...

GASP! are so proud to bring back this popular yearly showcase that highlights some of the greatest new filmmakers within the LGBTQIA+ community. Starting with a biting satire with a bimbo cannibal as our main character, and ending with a romantic sci-fi epic, and featuring vampires, zombies, body horror and animation (to name a few!) along the way, this showcase once again delves into the weird, t...

GASP! are so excited to be hosting a 40th anniversary screening of the theatrical version of Frank Oz’s Little Shop of Horrors! This 80s cult classic musical is one of the rare occasions where a remake manages to outdo its predecessor, and it does so by elevating everything that worked so well in Roger Corman’s 1960 b-movie whilst allowing it to take on a life of its own with incredible set design...

Perhaps the most disturbing feature film of the weekend, GASP! is proud to present this intense yet utterly thought-provoking look at homophobia within religion. God Country does so much more than just present its queer characters as just victims; it’s a layered film with layered, interesting and empowered protagonists and so much sincerity that is a result of the film being made from a deeply per...

A late night 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 anymore away would ruin the surprise. Content Warning: Flashing images, body horror, discriminatory language, self harm, child endangerment, and references to child death and drug misuse All of ou...

Kicking off the third and final day of GASP! 2026 is a horror comedy that is bound to have festival goers hooked from its incredible opening scene right until the end credits begin to roll. The Only Ones is a high energy slasher that provides plenty of gore and hilarious humour as it unravels a captivating story filled with twists and turns including an unforgettable reveal of who’s killing everyo...

GASP! is proud to present this short film showcase that highlights some of the best female filmmakers working in horror cinema today, filmmakers who you will be sure to want to keep an eye out for after this showcase. Amongst the many impressive films being shown, this showcase features eerie found footage horror with Mimics, brilliantly disgusting body horror with a message in Paty, the stylish y...

Each year, GASP! screen multiple animated short films and this year, they’ve decided to give them their own brand new Short Film Showcase! Across 75 minutes, you’ll be taken to bold, daring, exciting and straight up terrifying worlds through the world of animation created by some of the most talented filmmakers working today. From a Xenomorph asking its mother awkward questions to gore filled acti...

If you’re a cat person but also a horror fan, there’s a very good chance you might find a new favourite film at GASP! 2026, and this film is absolutely a contender for this. Cat Cam is a film about forgiveness and trust made by a small team of female and queer filmmakers, and the result is a creepy found footage film with a lot of heart and an adorable feline protagonist. Set in a singular locatio...

GASP! will end its fourth festival with what is quite possibly the most camp and most gay slasher film you will see all year. Meat is big, bold and relentlessly entertaining from start to finish, introducing a killer who has plenty of potential to become a new horror icon. Homoeroticism, gore and inventive death scenes are combined alongside important political commentary on the state of America r...

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Often cited as one of the defining films of the 2000s due to its dreamlike visuals and pioneering non-linear timeline and unreliable narrators that has gone on to inspire countless films and series. A visually inventive and emotionally raw exploration of memory, love, and loss, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind follows Joel (Jim Carrey), a reserved man who discovers that his impulsive ex-girlf...

We are very proud to present ARROW VIDEO CLUB, a new collaboration with the almighty lords of physical media Arrow Video; where we will present some of the best titles from their back catalogue on our lovely big screen! Expect a variety of cult classics, deep cuts, Arrow Video trailers and a raffle for Arrow Video blu-rays at every event! The kids of Third Year Class-B Shiroiwa Junior High School...

Influenced by the Japanese Kaiju monster movie sub-genre, Pacific Rim was a natural choice for a director who regards the 1966 classic The War of the Gargantuas as a formative cinematic experience. A passion project for del Toro, it’s an underrated entry in his body of work, and essential viewing on the big screen. It charts humanity’s last attempt to build robot behemoths capable of fighting gia...

What time is it?! Bottomless Time! School's out, so it's time to sing, dance and celebrate for the Wildcats of East High. Landing summer jobs at a ritzy country club, the teens are ready for fun...but instead, their friendships and relationships are put to the test. Troy is especially thrilled with his new job and the opportunities it brings, but it's all part of Sharpay's plan to keep him from...

Jaws, first released in 1975, is a landmark film that redefined the summer blockbuster and left a lasting impact on global cinema. Based on Peter Benchley's novel, it became the highest-grossing film of the year, earning a Best Picture nomination and three Academy Awards, including one for John Williams' iconic score. Almost five decades later, Jaws has become inextricable from global film culture...