Access:Horror Film Festival 🎥🔪🩸

Every scream deserves to be heard. ㅤ The official 2025 shorts of Access:Horror are streaming now on Shudder.

Get your last minute tickets for the 2025 Access:Horror Film Festival before it's too late . . . Join us online via Zoom for $10 per ticket or in-person at DCTV Firehouse Cinema for $25 per ticket if you’re in NYC — accommodations will be provided for both virtual and in-person attendees. To discover all the ways that accessibility is built into our festival and access our ticket portal, visit us online at accesshorror.com, where it’s so inclusive, it’s scary. ❤️ #accesshorror #filmfestival #accessibility #bodyhorror #horrorfilms

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. 📸: @headhunt #accesshorror #disability #filmfestival #filmmaking #indiefilm #indiefilms #horror #horrormovies [ID: A center image of Ariel Baska grinning in front of the Access:Horror logo as it’s projected on the film screen behind them. A woman with curly gray hair is hugging their shoulders from behind. The image is outlined in a white border that intersects with the above and below background images showing a pile of Access:Horror spiky logo magnets in red, black, and white.] [ID: A center image of Ariel Baska speaking into a microphone alongside five other people lined up in front of a film projector screen. One of the men in line is limbless and in a wheelchair, with a live captioning screen behind him showing a transcript of what is being talked about. The image is outlined in a white border that intersects with the above and below background images showing the Access:Horror spiky logo onscreen with Ariel talking to a woman with curly gray hair and wearing a mask in front of it.] [ID: A center image of the live Blerdy Massacre podcast recording shows Sharai the Slayer, Xero Gravity, and Karama Horne and Chuck Collins talking and laughing into microphones. The image is outlined in a white border that intersects with the above and below background images showing Access:Horror logo save the date cards with August 1st, 2025 printed on them.] [ID: A center image shows six people sitting in a line in front of the Access:Horror film screen, which reads “Program No. 2 Short Films: Flesh of my Flesh & Live Auction & 2025 Awards.” A TV screen off to the side shows live captions. The image is outlined in a white border that intersects with the above and below background images showing audience members engaged with the event.]

Tell us: Who is the scariest horror villain (and why)? #horrorcommunity  [ID: White text: “Question, Who is the scariest horror villain?” on a bloodstained background with red scratches.]

Calling all horror filmmakers and fanatics! There are 9 DAYS LEFT to send us your submission to the 2026 Access:Horror Film Festival. We want to see your film in all of its gory glory before the Drop Dead Deadline on Wednesday, May 20th. 🩸🎥 Find more on what we’re looking for and how to submit at /AccessHorror #horrorcommunity #filmfestival #filmfestivalsubmissions #accesshorror #filmmakers  [ID: A large red number “9” takes up the majority of the graphic. White text “Days Left To Submit Your Film” “Drop Dead Deadline, May 20” are in white at the bottom with an arrow pointing right between them.]

Your next must-watch is the black and white gothic horror film The Innocents (1961). Part supernatural-horror, part psychological thriller, it’s sure to get under your skin. 🖤 #theinnocents #movierecommendation #horrormovies #horrorcommunity [ID: A VHS tv with gray static and a yellow “THE INNOCENTS” title. “Monday Movie Must-Watch” is in red text below. A black background with gray scraggly trees frame the center image.]

Do you wish movie theaters still gave out physical ticket stubs? 🎟️ [ID: White text on a bloodstained red background: “Question: Do you wish movie theaters still gave out physical ticket stubs?” Accents of blood splatter fill the top and bottom of the image.] #horrorcommunity #ticketstub #ticketstubs #physicalmedia #movietheater

Today’s movie must-watch is The Haunting (1963), a supernatural black-and-white horror film based on the 1959 novel “The Haunting of Hill House” by Shirley Jackson.  Have you seen it? 👻🏚️ #thehaunting #horrorcommunity #thehauntingofhillhouse #horrormovies #horrormovie [ID: A VHS tv with gray static and a white “THE HAUNTING” title. “Monday Movie Must-Watch” is in white text below. A red background with gray scraggly trees frame the center image.]

If you were transported into the last horror movie you watched, would you be able to last for 24 hours? ⏱️ [ID: A graphic displaying a question in bold white text on a blood splattered red background. "Question: If you were transported into the last horror movie you watched, would you be able to last for 24 hours?"] #horrorjunkie #horrorlover #horrorfan #horrorcommunity #horrormovie

You heard it here first, folks. The DROP DEAD DEADLINE for the 2026 Access:Horror Film Festival is fast approaching. Apply by May 20th for your (last) chance to be featured in this year’s film festival. WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR: Our definitions of both horror and disability are expansive. We seek films informed by lived experience of disability. Experimental, narrative, documentary, hybrid, animation—we value impact over category. If your work embraces darkness and disability, we want to see it. *Please note that we do not require folks to disclose or depict those experiences on screen to be programmed. We believe that you should not have to perform your identity to be recognized.*  Apply and find more information at /accesshorror 🔪❤️ #accesshorror #disability #accessibility #horrorcommunity #horrorfilmfestival

Join the sickest girls you know for the sickest party this spring! Our friends at @sickgirlfilms will be celebrating all things horror with a host of friends and fiends for a night of drag, tunes, and a few horrible prizes up for grabs on 9 May 2026 at @piehouse.coop Kicking off at 7pm is the drag cabaret (including a quiz and raffle along the way) with a variety of very sick performances by . . .      •    Elena Black     •    Miss Terri Boxx     •    Ren Carnation      •    Aiden Strickland      •    XO And they’ll top the whole thing off with a club night beginning from 10pm.  If you can’t make it but would still like to support, you can find Sick Girl Films on Crowdfunder and Ko-fi. For tickets and all you could ever want to know, visit /events/sickgirlfilms  #horrorcommunity #filmclub #horrormovies #dragcabaret

This week’s must-watch is the documentary, 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR, created by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and based on her novel of the same name. Women have long-since contributed to the horror genre and have just as long-since been overlooked and erased from recognition. horrornonna and director Donna Davies are bringing them into the light. 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR is now streaming on @shudder . ❤️ #1000womeninhorror #womeninhorror #horrordocumentary #horrorlover #horrorcommunity @mangosodium @breagrant @donnadavies911