It’s not every day that I find three horror flicks for a gay horror movie marathon, but here are three more to add to the homo horror movies page, so let’s get right into them.
TOUCH ME (2025)
If you’re looking for cosmic erotic alien comedy horror that’s totally modern but also irresistibly infused with a retro 80s vibe, this bizarre flick is a must-see. It’s like trauma porn on sleazy, sexualized speed. Awesome.
Our main girl and her gay bestie have to move out of their place when sewage backs up into their shower. Luckily, she reconnects with an alien dude she had sex with once, and he lets them come stay with him.
The alien holds therapy sessions around a big crystal he brought from his planet, so we learn all about the main pair’s troubled pasts. They both end up having sex with the alien while drenched in neon light, and the alien shows his true tentacled form during intercourse.
Then the film gets all mean girls…and gays. The friends become jealous of each other and turn on each other. The alien believes he can’t trust either of them and reveals his more sinister side as well—the side that eats people. Eek!
The trippy final act has plenty of gore, more neon lighting, a better look at the freaky alien form, psychosexual elements, and more humor as the friends join forces to survive. And just one thing to keep in mind—if you’re prudish about explicit sexual conversations and content, you’re missing out on so many sleazy good horror movies, television shows, and books.
SHADOWS OF WILLOW CABIN (2025)
Ugh. It’s so sad that just when we were moving towards a renaissance of gay horror that was simply horror that just happened to be about gay characters, we’ve started to backtrack into this realm of gay trauma dump movies about the “horrors” of living a gay existence.
This 111-minute movie is about an older dude who invites a younger dude to his family’s cabin in the woods. They both seem to be a bit messed in the head right from the start. Each of them has hallucinations and nightmares that deliver bogus jump scares to give us a break from the endless talk that’s determined to overdevelop the characters. No. Really. We get it. You could have cut 30 minutes out of this movie, and we still would have understood who they are, what their issues are, and how well they’re bonding.
What we learn during the heavy conversations is that the older dude is closeted and living a straight life, his family has a scandalous past riddled with queer unhappiness, and he seems to be haunted by the cabin’s history.
75 minutes in, it actually feels like there will be genuine scares, but this ends up coming across as a metaphor for a lonely closet case leaning on a stranger to escape his gay guilt through assisted suicide.
RED LIGHT (2025)
I really don’t understand how there’s a swath of gay horror fans who can both demand trigger warnings on every horror film and then praise horror films as speaking to them by tackling the kind of psychological, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse they endured for being gay growing up, yet here we are with another film doing just that.
It begins immediately with a young dude being raped by a man his partner brings home. So…trigger warning, I guess?
Then the young guy and an older man wake up in their undies in what looks like a sexy sleazy 80s backroom lit with neon lights and candles. How romantic. In true Saw fashion, neither man remembers how he got there at first.
As they get to know each other, discuss their past trauma and conversion abuse, and have sex, they are summoned one at a time to be tortured by someone in a mask. The older man keeps volunteering to be the one to go get abused to protect the younger man from it…but the younger man is forced to watch his torment on a video monitor.
There are also flashbacks of younger guys being tortured during sex conversion. Yep. Another gay trauma dump flick…with a great butt.
And in the end, this film does exactly what you’d expect it to do when it’s time for the big twist, especially considering it’s structured like a Saw film.
