Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders

Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders is scheduled for release on June 6, 2026. The film examines the production and cultural fallout surrounding William Friedkin's 1980 thriller Cruising, which depicted a serial killer targeting gay men in New York's leather bar scene and drew sustained protests from the LGBTQ+ community at the time of its release. The documentary traces how Friedkin drew on the real-life murder of Addison Verrill, a reporter for Variety, situating the fiction of Cruising within an actual criminal case and exploring where the two histories intersect.