Short Horror: The Best Gay Horror Short Films

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The Last Time I Saw Richard

2013 Horror, Mystery

Jonah takes pride in being the solitary figure at the teen mental health clinic. However, his world shifts when a new patient, Richard, arrives, and they are compelled to share a room.

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Bug Chaser

2012 Comedy, Horror

Nathan's one-night stand takes a dark turn when he discovers a troubling growth on his body. Desperate for answers, he turns to unconventional sources for help, leading to unexpected revelations and a race against time.

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Innocent Boy

2020 Horror

Along a desolate Texas highway, men target desperate travelers. Amidst betrayal and danger, a young transgender must navigate a cowboy's volatile desires and the allure of corruption.

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The Summer House

2019 Horror, Thriller

Greg returns to his family's isolated vacation house with his boyfriend, only to be haunted by the ghost of his homophobic father.

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Infested Hearts

2022 Horror

Ethan believes his home is infested with bugs despite his boyfriend's reassurances, leading him on a downward spiral as he grapples with paranoia and reality.

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Lust

2017 Horror

Spencer, a delivery boy, develops an unnerving obsession with a customer that spirals into tragedy.

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Come Back My Love

2020 Horror

A tortured man, devastated by the disappearance of his loved one, becomes obsessed with filling the void in his heart by seeking to recreate a lost love through extreme measures and encounters with others.

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Sauna the Dead: A Fairy Tale

2016 Horror, Romance

A seemingly ordinary night in a sauna spirals into a desperate struggle for survival. Two men, each burdened by their own prejudices, are forced to unite against an unexpected threat: a swarm of towel-clad zombies. As the battle rages on, the burning question remains—who will survive to witness the break of dawn?

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Forgive Us

2021 Horror

After years of estrangement, an embittered young man reopens old wounds and uncovers new threats when he returns to his family for the holidays.

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Sacrament

2024 Horror

Hiking in the vast mountains of the American West, Belford and Winston grapple with unspoken tensions. As they argue about their feelings for each other, Belford recalls their first meeting at church.

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The Things We Do When We’re Alone

2021 Horror

With his wife and son gone for a weekend getaway, a closeted gay man copes with his demons of conversion therapy by murdering unsuspecting gay men.

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Griffica

2021 Horror

A gay man begins to suspect that his coffee obsessed boyfriend might not be what he seems, and may even be something far more sinister.

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Sucker

2018 Horror

A beguiling go-go boy agrees to meet an infatuated businessman at a hotel, but one of them is hiding a deadly secret.

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Steam

2021 Horror

Looking to reignite the spark in their relationship, Thomas and his boyfriend Juan spend the night at a gay bathhouse. What begins as an adventurous escape soon turns into a nightmare when they discover a ruthless killer lurking in the steam.

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Pyotr495

2016 Horror, Thriller

Set one evening in present-day Moscow, 16 year-old Pyotr is baited by an ultra-nationalist group known for their violent abductions and attacks bolstered by Russia's LGBT propaganda law, but Pyotr has a dangerous secret.

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Four Itchy Boys

2026 Horror

Follows four young men quarantined for an unexplainable itch as they prepare for a livestream to prove they're not monsters, while a producer plots something more grotesque.

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Poltergays

2020 Comedy, Horror

When bible humpers Perry and Tiff Myers endeavor to out their friendly gay roommates, Tanner and Derek, as malevolent specters from the hellish great beyond, it is Perry and Tiff that might just be revealed as hauntingly homophobic instead.

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Slashr

2023 Horror

In a remote mountain cabin, Ashkan's encounter with a killer, using a dating app to track victims, turns deadly.