The Queer Screams Film Festival is returning for its fourth edition this coming August.

From August 14th to 16th, the horror festival will unveil 30 new queer genre films at the Clinton Street Theater in Portland, Oregon., while also featuring live drag and musical performances.

Bryan Fuller, best known for the genre series Hannibal, Pushing Daisies, and Star Trek: Discovery, will receive the 2026 Queer Screams Career Achievement Award, honouring a significant contribution to queer horror cinema and culture.

“From Oscar Wilde to Bram Stoker to Mary Shelley to Clive Barker, there is a long illustrious history of Queer storytellers using their experience as outsiders to tell the tales that frighten us,” Fuller said in a statement. “I am so honored to be included in this year’s Queer Screams, celebrating the aliens and the alienated in a community diverse in its solidarity.”

Fuller will be on hand for an extended Q&A along with a special screening of Dust Bunny, his 2025 feature directorial debut, which stars Sigourney Weaver and his Hannibal lead Mads Mikkelsen, with the latter playing a hitman hired by a little girl (Samantha Sloyan) to kill the monster under her bed.

Nancy Allen (Dressed to Kill, Blow Out) will present a 50th anniversary screening of Carrie, Brian De Palma’s horror classic, in which Allen played one of the titular character’s bullies, Chris.

“I'm thrilled to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Carrie with the passionate, welcoming, and wonderfully devoted queer community at Queer Screams,” Allen said. “Queer Screams is exactly what film festivals should be: fearless, welcoming, and bursting with passion. I’m thrilled to be here. Maybe this time, I'll finally get to go to the prom!” – Nancy Allen

The screening will be paired with a “70s Queer Prom”, where attendees can dance to a DJ spinning vinyl and commemorate the night at a photo booth. A portion of the proceeds from this event will go to the WeSPARK Cancer Support Center.