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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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?

Send this to your favorite filmmaker -- applications for the 2026 Access:Horror Film Festival are open! filmfreeway.com/accesshorror

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

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. 🎥

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 [email protected] to sign up!

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?

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.

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.

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?

Here at Access:Horror, we are still fighting the good fight at the intersection of horror and disability representation, and Stranger Things has managed to do so on a scale that has touched the hearts of viewers all around the globe since the show first aired in 2016.

This #GivingTuesday, support disabled storytelling from festival to film set. Your gift fuels both the annual Access:Horror film festival and the Monstrous Me film. Click to make a donation on this global day of giving! tinyurl.com/38p7rp67

Today’s recommendation is courtesy of a friend of the festival, Caris from www.holidayhorrordatabase.com, to remind you not to lose your joy for the holiday season – that is, unless you want Krampus at your door.

This week’s Movie Monday must-watch is a psychological horror. A Tale of Two Sisters is a slow burn story inspired by a folktale that you won’t be able to look away from. 🩸 #ataleoftwosisters #womeninhorror #horrormovies #horrorfilms #movierecommendation #movierecommendations #psychologicalhorror

Some shots by the amazing Andee Arches to show you what you missed this year if you weren’t at our film festival.  We are still accepting EarlyBird applications for our 2026 festival through Sunday, November 30th. See the full list of requirements and deadlines at filmfreeway.com/AccessHorror...

The only thing better than attending the Access:Horror Film Festival as a guest is attending as a filmmaker.  The Earlybird deadline is in 10 Days (November 30, 2025): filmfreeway.com/AccessHorror...  We can’t wait to watch your film! 📸: Andee Arches

Today’s must-watch is a period horror that follows a child bride, Bulbbul, throughout her life during the Bengal Presidency. The film portrays violence against women and follows Bulbbul in her supernatural revenge journey, illustrating a moving and punishing story that will stick with you.

Do you want your horror film to be screened at the 2026 Access:Horror Film Festival? Apply today at accesshorror.com 🩸

Today’s Monday Movie Must Watch is Prevenge, a horror film that follows a pregnant widow that embarks on a killing spree at the direction of her unborn child to get revenge for the death of her husband. What other women in horror films are on your watchlist this month? 🤰

It’s already November, which means the year is winding down, but not here at Access:Horror. Submissions for the 2026 Access:Horror Film Festival are now open and we want to see your horror films! Join us at accesshorror.com

This Monday, we’re back with another Monday Movie Must-Watch Recommendation. We’re focusing on women in horror this month, which brings us to our first must-watch: The Lure (2015).  Have you seen it yet? 🧜‍♀️

Happy Halloween from all of us here at Access:Horror - we wish you a spooktacular day spent watching your favorite horror films! #happyhalloween #halloween #horrormovies #horrormovie #horror

Free disabilty horror movies this thursday!

TONIGHT.

Tomorrow is your last chance to watch our 2025 Shorts Program on @shudder.com!

This Thursday, Access:Horror and Superfest are coming together from 5:30pm PT - 8:00pm PT to offer you a delightfully macabre Halloween movie night, featuring all disability stories. Register for free: disabilityculturalcenter.org/event/access...

A Quiet Place: Day One is our final Movie Must-Watch for October!  For those of you who have cats, have you tried the quiet challenge yet? 🐈‍⬛ #aquietplace #aquietplacedayone #movierecommendation #horrormovies

Thank you to everyone who has donated thus far!

“Given that all of us will experience disability and horror in our lifetimes, I consider the work of this festival to be necessary planning for the future.  But let’s have a goddamn good time while we do it.” – Ariel Baska Submit to our 2026 film festival: filmfreeway.com/AccessHorror... ❤️🩸

Submissions are now OPEN for our 2026 Access:HORROR Film Festival! If you’re a filmmaker who creates art inspired by horror, fantasy, or the fantastic, we want to see your film. Films must be related to genre and disability – a full list of requirements is available at our submission link.

The record-breaking Sinners took the horror community by storm this year, so this movie recommendation is likely to be a RE-watch for most of us . . . What was the most memorable part of the film for you?

We are already halfway through October, and want to give a heartfelt thanks to everyone who has donated to our project thus far. As we’ve said before, this isn’t just a movie, it’s a movement, and your support means everything to us and this community.

“We have deliberately kept our program short, dark, and sweet. It costs a lot of money to provide accessibility assets for our programming, and by carefully curating, we hope to provide audiences with a useful frame.” – Ariel Baska, creator of Access:HORROR ❤️🩸

This week’s movie must-watch is Hellraiser, the 1987 supernatural horror film that introduced the iconic character of Pinhead. Have you watched all eleven of the related films?

Monstrous Me is a documentary that harnesses the rich and untold power of horror as a way of reckoning with disability identity through cinematic monsters. We’re asking for a small donation of just $6.66 to help us get the funding we need to bring it to life. my.onecause.com/fundraiser/o...

“At Access:HORROR we have expansive definitions of both disability and horror. Not everything here is likely to scare you, but hopefully taken together as a whole it will help you think differently about both disability and horror.” – Ariel Baska, creator of Access:HORROR ❤️🩸

It’s Halloween time and we’re planning an evening of creepy crawlies, spookiness, chills, and thrills. See you there! REGISTER: disabilityculturalcenter.org/event/access...

A Nightmare on Elm Street is one of the classics that informs and inspires us here at Access:Horror, so of course it had to be the first must-watch recommendation as we jump into October. ❤️📺 #anightmareonelmstreet

Scary season is officially here! As we kick off October, we’re asking for something small but powerful. Would you consider donating just $6.66 to help bring Monstrous Me, to life? Thank you for supporting independent horror, accessibility, and equity in film. ❤️

WOW! I just got word that @brooklynhorror.bsky.social put up a second screening of "It Need's Eye's" because the first one sold out! Come see this really special film and support independent, queer, Horror! brooklynhorror2025.eventive.org/schedule/68d...

Access:Horror is live on Shudder today! It was such an honor to work with this festival in celebration of disability in horror cinema. The programming is incredible, and the work of this festival and what it represents is surely needed. Please go give it a watch! @accesshorror.bsky.social

Did somebody order the audio from our live recording at @accesshorror.bsky.social last month? Cause that’s what we’re serving this Tuesday. Get into this convo about the intersection of disability and horror with convo with Karama Horne and Chuck Collins. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Episode 14 is live In this episode, Benjamin and Rabia sit down with Horror Activist, film maker, and festival directorAriel Baska to talk about their prolific work surrounding disability advocacy and the Access:Horror Film Festival (Now available to stream on Shudder). @accesshorror.bsky.social

Ariel Baska, filmmaker and founder of the Access:Horror Film Festival sat down with Akima A. Brown of Reel Talk with Reel Families for Change to share their journey toward creating more equitable, accessible storytelling in the entertainment industry, their 4-2-4 production model and more.

It’s only been a few weeks, but we’re already missing all things Access:Horror. Take a stroll down memory lane with us and enjoy these snapshots from this year’s festival . . . if you dare. 📸: Ana Andrea Arches #accesshorror #disability #filmfestival #filmmaking #indiefilm #indiefilms #horror

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this year’s Access:Horror Film Festival — this event is the success that it is because of the hard work and support shown by our volunteers and the incredible community we’ve found at the intersection of disability and horror. ❤️

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this year’s Access:Horror Film Festival — this event is the success that it is because of the hard work and support shown by our volunteers and the incredible community we’ve found at the intersection of disability and horror. ❤️

I had an amazing time at the first in-person @accesshorror.bsky.social event on Friday. All the credit goes to @justaskabaska.bsky.social for creating a festival that celebrates authentic disability representation in horror. Give the festival page a follow & stay tuned for more events this fall.

The day is finally here – our festival starts at 4:00pm EST this afternoon, with two unmissable programs stretching into the evening, including a podcast taping and Q&A’s with our featured filmmakers. Let us know which film or segment you’re dying for, and we’ll see you soon!