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Fiery, feminist comedian, Beth Moore, wants to bring the homely film watching experience of literally throwing yourself off your sofa, bruising your best friend’s arm from grabbing it so much, and jaw dislocation from shock and awe to the cinema! As much as when you normally visit the cinema, Beth would expect you to shut the hell up and pay attention for “I’m Not Running a Mortuary”, she wants yo...

Based on the 1964 Christopher Isherwood novella A Single Man is a heart wrenching but uplifting first film from fashion designer Tom Ford. Ford takes the words of Isherwood (who is best known for his Berlin diaries that were the basis for the musical Cabaret) and turns them into the sort of perfectly put together, sexy and sumptuous concoction you would expect from one of his dresses or suits. The...

In a suddenly empty world, the echoes of the past continue to haunt the streets and the few survivors. Mark and Elena are in pursuit of a strange place, a place she sees in her dreams, a place where they would finally be safe. But the path to Praeris may not be what they think it is. With 2025 being the first year of GASP! branching out into sci-fi, fantasy and thriller as well as their primary...

This year, GASP! will present four Short Film Showcases, starting with the opening night showcase that features all things camp, creepy, thought provoking, and unsettling. From an anthology horror comedy to an anime take on Little Red Riding Hood and from jaw dropping body horror to an emotional piece of supernatural horror filled with heart, this showcase is sure to provide something for everyone...

A double bill of modern splatter films, films that never hold back and go all out with buckets of blood to create two ridiculously fun late night short films. This double bill starts with Run For Your Life!, a beautifully shot and expertly crafted homage to The Evil Dead that comes complete with some very impressive practical effects within its blood soaked death scenes, and this will be follow...

Adventures await when new lovers get separated by a chainsaw Killer. Described by director, Sander Maran as “Monty Python meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets... Les Misérables”, Chainsaws Were Singing is a loud, in your face and high camp start to the Saturday of this year’s GASP! You can expect exploding cars, musical numbers, a chainsaw solo and an iconic lesbian hedgehog amongst many ot...

Brand new for 2025, GASP! are so proud to showcase some of the best and most exciting new filmmakers from around the world. Featuring fantastic shorts from Bulgaria, Korea, Canada, Spain and Sri Lanka to name a few, this showcase provides animation, hard hitting and thought provoking themes, art house horror, horror comedy, a killer pizza, sci-fi body horror and so much more with one thing in comm...

Returning for its second year after popular demand, GASP! are so proud to bring back this showcase that highlights some of the greatest new filmmakers within the LGBTQIA+ community. Starting with a very short murder mystery horror film, and ending with a terrifying new found footage film from the director of last year’s short horror comedy, The Lure, with a killer vibrator, horrifying hook-ups ...

A funeral director tells four strange tales of horror with an African American focus to three drug dealers he traps in his place of business. GASP! are so excited to be hosting a 30th anniversary screening of Rusty Cundieff’s Tales from the Hood! Produced by the icon that is Spike Lee, this milestone for African American horror cinema is one of the greatest and most important anthology horror f...

Exclusive Manchester Screening! Filmmaker Emily Wyland reunites with her estranged mother for documentary. When her mother disappears, Emily and her cinematographer Danny pursue clues to her whereabouts. Every once in a while, a found footage film comes along and grabs people’s attention, it does something a little different and creates plenty of buzz amongst fans of genre cinema, previous e...

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. GASP! is back for its third year with over 50 short films and 9 feature-length films, including the yearly Mystery Queer Classic! As with every year, GASP...

Two priests and a team of ghost hunters fight to cleanse a remote cabin of its demons and its storied past in this unique silent horror film. Kicking off the third day of GASP! 2025 is a very unique and highly entertaining silent horror film created by a diverse team of filmmakers with what is evidently a lot of love for both silent film and the horror genre. Equal parts ambitious and bold in i...

Alter, in her 40s, suffers from a profound ailment that is eating her inside out. After attempting suicide, she is consulting her therapist Léandro Lecreulx, a specialist in hypnosis, who connects her to her most buried terrifying fears. Léandro is developing unique methods to help his patients deal with their childhood trauma. The days pass to the rhythm of nightmares and hypnosis sessions. Alter...

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 the super short yet unforgettable Sorry, an eerie creature feature with Lifeboat, a stunning, Universal Monsters...

A thought provoking pro-choice horror film with a stellar lead performance, No Choice is a film that tackles a very real life horror; the pressures surrounding needing an abortion within the horrific state of the American health care system. Equal parts stressful to watch and impressive within how well it handles its subject matter, this intense film is so important for our current times and is es...

UK Restoration Premiere Courtesy of Third Window Films Intrepid Japanese detective Maiku Hama is on the case in this adventure. Hama is suave, macho, and cold but he is a total klutz. His attempts at machismo always fall flat. When he’s out on a case he spends more time getting beaten up than he does solving the case. Kaizô Hayashi deserves to be discussed when it comes to conversations surr...

The 1979 scandalous, blood-soaked story of the rise and fall of an emperor. We are living in a time of unbridled displays of megalomania in our media - Trump and Musk, the richest and most powerful men, act like petulant children, but with histories of sex crimes and profits tied up in suffering - and it’s nothing new. Although the debauched drama we know about Caligula, the inexperienced youn...

Join us for Manchester’s only cult film pub quiz! Every other month our own in-house quizmaster writes a completely original six round quiz which can ONLY be played within the walls of our cinema, YES IT’S A MOVIE PUB QUIZ THAT HAPPENS IN A CINEMA! This means you can expect a feast of multimedia rounds on top of the uber nerdy, classic trivia questions. Example rounds include… DRAW US A PI...

This event is part of our YANK film season taking place across July. Get’cha Head in the Game for some bottomless drinks and a screening of High School Musical ! Bring your Wildcat spirit for unstoppable numbers on the big screen, and all your favourite tunes—from “Breaking Free” to “We’re All in This Together.” Grab your crew, pour a drink, and get ready to bop to the top! A ticket for this ev...

This event is part of our YANK film season taking place across July. Director Stanley Kubrick rips the skin from the face of war to expose the dehumanizing effect of the military on the people fed to its emotional meat grinder in Full Metal Jacket. Through the eyes of an 18-year-old recruit--from his first days in the seeming hell of Marine Corps boot camp as his superiors try to strip of him ...