Out for Blood: 25 Best Gay Horror Movies

From slashers and supernatural nightmares to psychological horror, body horror and blood-soaked thrillers, we bring together 25 of the best gay horror movies. These gay films put gay men at the centre of stories filled with fear, desire, violence, obsession and the uncanny, spanning cult favourites, indie horror and darker genre films from around the world.

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Leviticus

2026 Horror, Sci-Fi
Two teenage boys, Niam and Ryan, form a secret bond in a repressive small town that offers brief escape from the lives closing in around them. When a violent entity begins stalking them in the form of their deepest desire, they are forced to confront fear, repression and what it truly means to want each other.
Exploited

Exploited

2022 Horror, Thriller
A college freshman becomes obsessed with the previous owner of his laptop.
Swallowed

Swallowed

2022 Horror, Thriller
Two best friends experience a final night together filled with drugs, bugs, and horrific intimacy.
Blood-Red Ox

Blood-Red Ox

2021 Horror
Amir's trip to Bolivia with his boyfriend turns nightmarish with hallucinations, testing their trust and sanity.
Hellbent

Hellbent

2004 Horror, Thriller
On Halloween in West Hollywood, two guys making out face danger from a serial killer, sparking a night of unexpected events.
Devil’s Path

Devil’s Path

2018 Drama, Horror, Thriller
Two men encounter each other on a dangerous gay cruising park trail, and quickly find themselves caught up in a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Playdurizm

Playdurizm

2020 Fantasy, Horror
When a teenager finds himself caught in a glitchy-glitzy reality with his onscreen male idol, he does all he can to be possessed by this man and ignore the violent clues of how he got there.
Bite Marks

Bite Marks

2011 Comedy, Horror
Brewster inherits his brother's coffin delivery, picking up Cary and Vogel, a hitchhiking gay couple. A breakdown in a junkyard unveils vampires, forcing them to barricade in the truck until dawn.
After Sundown

After Sundown

2023 Horror, Romance
In 1961, Saengrawee moves to Sittikornkan Castle, where he faces haunting nightmares and supernatural threats. As he and Phra Ploeng grow closer, their bond deepens, despite a prophecy that ties their fates together. Phra Ploeng, secretly in love, vows to protect Saengrawee from the dangers that surround them.
The Parenting

The Parenting

2025 Comedy, Horror
A couple rents a countryside house for a weekend with their parents and then discover it's inhabited by a 400-year-old poltergeist.
The Blue Hour

The Blue Hour

2015 Drama, Horror
A supernatural love story where Tam and Phum find solace and love amidst ghostly presences and land disputes.
Rift

Rift

2017 Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The fractured relationship between two men faces a supernatural test when their shared grief awakens a haunting entity.
The Latent Image

The Latent Image

2022 Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A thriller writer's life mirrors his terrifying story when a mysterious drifter arrives at his isolated cabin, blurring the lines between fiction and reality in unsettling ways.
I Don’t Understand You

I Don’t Understand You

2024 Comedy, Horror
In rural Italy, stranded without transportation or language skills, an American couple on the verge of adopting tries to salvage their relationship amid a disastrous vacation
Nevrland

Nevrland

2019 Drama, Horror, Thriller
A 17-year-old with an anxiety disorder develops a virtual friendship with a 26-year-old artist, leading to unexpected events when they finally meet in person.
Rapture in Blue

Rapture in Blue

2020 Horror, Thriller
Wracked with desires he's long tried to ignore, the lines between real and unreal blur into obscurity for an anxious young man who's just encountered the insidious new boy living in his childhood home.
In the Room Where He Waits

In the Room Where He Waits

2024 Horror
A queer theatre actor waits in a hotel room before his father's funeral. Convinced there is someone or something in the room with him, he must come face-to-face with all that haunts him, in a fight for his life.
Spiral

Spiral

2019 Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A gay couple move to a small town to enjoy a better quality of life and raise their daughter with strong social values. But when neighbors throw a very strange party, nothing is as it seems in their picturesque neighborhood.
The Nature of Nicholas

The Nature of Nicholas

2002 Drama, Horror, Romance
A teenager grapples with strange experiences after realizing he's attracted to a classmate.
Socket

Socket

2007 Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After being struck by lightning, Dr. Bill Matthews begins a relationship with Dr. Craig Murphy while recovering. Craig invites Bill to join a peculiar group of lightning survivors.
Pornography

Pornography

2009 Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A writer and an adult film star delve into the mysterious disappearance of another adult film star, leading them into dark supernatural realms.
The Exorcism of Saint Patrick

The Exorcism of Saint Patrick

2024 Horror
A pastor takes a gay teen to a cabin to perform conversion therapy. When he goes too far, bullying the kid into suicide, the ghost of his victim returns to plague the pastor and avenge the deaths of so many other ghosts like him.
Summoning Sylvia

Summoning Sylvia

2023 Comedy, Horror, Thriller
A gay bachelor party turns spooky when sinister spirits are suddenly summoned.
Death Drop Gorgeous

Death Drop Gorgeous

2020 Comedy, Horror
A dejected bartender and an aging drag queen try to survive the eccentric and hostile nightlife of a corrupt city, as a masked maniac slaughters young gay men and drains them of blood.
Hypochondriac

Hypochondriac

2022 Drama, Horror, Thriller
A young potter's life devolves into chaos as he loses function of his body while being haunted by the physical manifestation of his childhood trauma.