Out For Blood – Queer Horror Film Festival at The Attic

Tom Grieve, Contributing Writer

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Out For Blood - Queer Horror Film Festival

The Attic, Leeds
24 November 2025

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Film still from selected German film, 'FxCK The Cistem'.
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Sixteen short films promise to showcase queer creativity at its “most beautiful and disgusting” this November at The Attic. Coming to Leeds for the first time, Out for Blood is a queer horror film festival originated in Cambridge and was named one of the ‘Best Horror Film Festivals in the World’ by Dread Central in 2022.

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