Written and directed by Marwan Mokbel
Starring Junes Zahdi, Freddy Shahin, Samara Nohra, Joseph Abboud
Egypt/Lebanon/United States, 2023, 111 minutes
Content Warning: Discrimination
An Egyptian gay couple return from the US to Egypt for a family emergency. When they fall prey to witchcraft as punishment for their homosexual sins, one of them falls into religious terror and exposes his unhealed past.
Providing a harrowing insight into queer life within Egypt through the gaze of a thoroughly likeable lead couple, this powerful supernatural horror film is sure to tug at the heartstrings just as much as it’s guaranteed to get under your skin. With stellar performances, beautiful cinematography and anxiety-inducing scenes of suspense, The Judgement is a brand new queer horror film you will not want to miss.
12pm - The Judgement
The LGBTQIA+ Short Film Showcase is one of four showcases that is included at the main GASP! Festival each year, so it’s only fitting that this showcase also makes an appearance at the GASP! X SCENE Queer All Dayer! Expect horror comedy with Stiff Drinks; stunning art house horror with A Wave from the Ocean Crashing Into the Shore and Stella Anyway; an evil teaspoon in The Disgruntled Teaspoon; thought-provoking and unforgettable body dysmorphia allegories in See; and much more!
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2:30pm - Short Film Showcase
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Content Warning: Brief Flashing Images
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.
5:00pm - A Mystery Queer Classic
Written and directed by William Friedkin
Based on Cruising by Gerald Walker
Starring Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, Richard Cox
1980, United States/West Germany, 102 minutes
Content Warning: Discriminatory Language, Flashing Images, Sexual Threat
A police officer goes undercover in the underground S&M gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is preying on gay men.
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 celebrate its 45th anniversary at the Queer All Dayer. Written and directed by the legendary 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.
7:45pm - Cruising
Written and directed by Yann Gonzalez
Co-written by Cristiano Mangione
Starring Vanessa Paradis, Nicolas Maury, Kate Moran, Jonathan Genet
2018, France/Mexico/Switzerland, 102 minutes
Content Warning: Sexual violence, flashing images, drug use involving needles, discriminatory language
Paris, summer 1979. Anne is a producer of cheap gay porn. When Lois, her editor and companion, leaves her, she attempts to get her back by making a more ambitious film with the flamboyant Archibald.
Finishing the GASP! X SCENE Queer All Dayer will be a screening of the modern horror classic Knife + Heart. Directed by Yann Gonzalez and starring the iconic Vanessa Paradis and featuring a scene-stealing soundtrack by M83, this film will make for the perfect double bill with Cruising, a film it was undoubtedly influenced by, but as much as that influence can be seen, it still stands on its own as one of the most unique, stylish and expertly written/directed films of recent years.