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A film festival and industry summit celebrating disability, genre, and all that’s good in the world.
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It’s Valentine’s week, and today’s Monday Movie Must-Watch is Lisa Frankenstein, a horror film filled with romance, murder, and humor that is perfect for the holiday. 💗🪡
#valentinesday #lisafrankenstein
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Monstrous Mirror is very much alive and well! As we continue on this ambitious and gratifying journey to bring this story to your screens, your support is appreciated more than you know.
Whether it’s a follow, share, or donation, we couldn’t do this without this amazing community, so thank you!
Ariel was a guest on the Pigeonhole Podcast with Cheryl Green.
You can listen to the interview and/or read along with the transcript at whoamitostopit.com/pigeonhole-5...
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The Wolf House (La Casa Lobo) is an adult animated horror film that utilizes stop motion to weave a disturbing and fantastical story that will haunt you when it’s over.
#lacasalobo #thewolfhouse #movierecommendations #animatedhorror
We accept music videos, feature films (over 40 minutes), short films (up to 40 minutes) and experimental films, both narrative and documentary from all countries.
As long as your film hasn’t had an official theatrical release outside of film festivals, it’s eligible!
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Saturday is your last chance to apply to the Access:Horror film festival on the regular deadline of January 31st.
Visit filmfreeway.com/AccessHorror for the full list of requirements.
The regular deadline for filmmakers to apply is Saturday, January 31st, with late and extended deadlines throughout the first part of the year.
📷: Andee Arches
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This could be you at our festival this year!
The Access:Horror film festival strives to offer accessibility in both the online and in-person space to create a space that welcomes everyone.
filmfreeway.com/accesshorror
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The next movie that should be on your must-watch list is 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. The fourth installment of the 28 Days Later film series, it’s even bloodier and more brutal than the preceding films. However, it is the human element woven throughout the story that makes it so striking. 🦴💀
26.01.2026 20:53 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I sat down with John Adams, Toby Poser, and Zelda Adams, aka The Adams Family to talk about their new witchy horror movie reflecting on life, death, and cancer, premiering on @shudder.com today!
Tune in for insights on the film, and add it to your watch list tonight.
substack.com/@arielbaska
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The deadlines for our film festival are coming up quickly. Mark your calendars!
Regular Deadline: January 31
Late Deadline: March 31
Extended Deadline: April 30
Last Chance Deadline: May 31
filmfreeway.com/accesshorror
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Primate is a brutal horror film filled with graphic kills that will satiate slasher lovers, but its message about the power of a unified community is the true takeaway. 🩸🐒
Have you watched it yet?
The regular deadline is Saturday, January 31st, with additional late and extended deadlines available. If your film intersects disability with horror or the fantastic, we want to see it.
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Reminiscing on last year’s Access:Horror film festival today – if you’re looking to apply to this year’s event, you still have time!
Send this to your favorite indie filmmaker and we’ll see you later this year!
📷: Andee Arches
filmfreeway.com/AccessHorror
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Topping our must-watch movie list today is THE PLAGUE, a psychological thriller released just last year that is an absolutely brilliant depiction of the horrors of adolescence through a disability lens.
THE PLAGUE is in theaters now – do you have tickets yet?
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Does your favorite filmmaker know about the 2026 Access:Horror film festival yet? Submissions are open for this year’s event, and we want to bring the best of the best to our audience later this year.
Send this to someone who needs to apply!
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With a new year comes new horror movie recommendations, and first up is the 1980 cult classic slasher Terror Train.
Did you anticipate the killer before the reveal?
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SUBMIT TO OUR FESTIVAL BY JANUARY 31st.
filmfreeway.com/AccessHorror...
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Our final Monday Movie must-watch of the year is the multi-layered coming-of-age psychological horror film, We’re All Going To The World’s Fair. 🎡
Did you realize anything new about the film on your second watch?
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Send this to your favorite filmmaker -- applications for the 2026 Access:Horror Film Festival are open!
filmfreeway.com/accesshorror
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Hey horror filmmakers! Submissions for our upcoming 2026 Access:Horror filmmakers festival are open — the regular deadline is January 31, 2026 and you can find more information on what we’re looking for, how to submit, and what the late deadlines are on filmfreeway.com/accesshorror
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We’re looking for genre films in horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and disability. 🩸
Unlike many other festivals, we offer screening fees and/or accessibility assets.
The regular deadline is coming up sooner than you’d expect (January 31, 2026), so visit filmfreeway.com/accesshorror to submit your film. 🎥
"Horror Movie Monthly Meeting online to explore disability representation in a selected horror film. First Monday of the Month, 6:30pm UK time. Contact darkhorrorfilm(at)gmail.com (http://gmail.com/) to sign up"
Fellow horror lovers! Ring in the new year with a new monthly film club to discuss disability in horror.
The first film will be Crimes of the Future (2022), directed by David Cronenberg.
Contact darkhorrorfilm@gmail.com to sign up!
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With only ten days left until Christmas, we’re spotlighting the classic modern day fairytale, Edward Scissorhands. ✂️
This movie has everything you need for a holiday movie night – fantasy, romance, and holiday cheer. How many times have you seen it?
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Save the date: January 31st, 2026 is the deadline to submit to our upcoming film festival.
Films must be related to genre (horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and the fantastic) and disability.
You can find the full list of film requirements, including late deadlines at filmfreeway.com/accesshorror.
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As the year begins to wind to a close, we want to remind you that applications for our 2026 film festival are open.
We want to see your film!
Visit filmfreeway.com/accesshorror for the full list of requirements, awards, and prizes.
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For our fellow fans of holiday horror, this week we bring you a film that gifts you gore, horror, and comedy all wrapped up in one messy blood-stained package.
Better Watch Out is far from a normal home invasion.
You might be home . . . but you’re not alone. 🩸🏘️🔪
Is Better Watch Out on your list?
What are some of your favorite Dustin moments so far? ❤️
04.12.2025 21:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We still have a long way to go, but characters like Dustin prove that disability can be normalized in modern media and there are no excuses for lack of meaningful stories about us, for us, by us - especially in the horror genre where so many of us have found community.
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