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Access:Horror is nearly here! If you love horror, accessible films, or both, this is your festival. It runs online October 4th through November 1st.

From the Access:Horror festival website:

“Access:Horror is a horror film festival programmed, produced, and hosted by disabled filmmakers.

Horror has always had a complicated relationship with disability. It’s been the twitch that signals evil, the wheelchair that means vulnerable, the scar that means damaged. Access:Horror exists because disabled filmmakers got tired of being the genre’s shorthand and started making the films instead.

This year’s lineup is organized into three programs, each one built around a different way horror gets under your skin. Watch them online, at your own pace, through our streaming hub. Every film carries captions. Most carry audio description, too.

Access:Horror isn’t accessibility as an afterthought bolted onto a normal festival. It’s a festival that couldn’t exist without it, made by the people who’d know.”

There’s three blocks of films: Edibles and The Body Keeps the Score films all have captions and audio description. Dead Darlings films all have captions.

Passes are $20 for the whole online festival. On the festival site, you’ll be asked to sign up for an account. Then it will take you to purchase a festival pass. Streaming opens on October 4th at 5 AM in whatever time zone you’re in. (Watch out. It knows what time zone you’re in. Extra spooky!)

There’s a limited number of tickets available for anyone who needs discounts or scholarships. Reach out to info@AccessHorror.com

If you want to support the festival, you can donate at the Access:Horror website.

Before you go, I hope you’ll check out festival founder Ariel Baska‘s essay on the Fangoria magazine website about the need for detailed, artistically-driven audio description in horror films. It’s called Monstrous Musings: We Have Such Sights to Show You… Cool, Bro… But Could You Describe Them Too? It’s a great read.

Enjoy the festival!