
Monstrous Me
A Look in the Mirror
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8/9/2026Runtime
16 minsGenres
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When Ariel was a disabled and disfigured child of three years old, a bad babysitter brought over a bag of weed, her boyfriend, and a VHS of A Nightmare on Elm Street. From under the coffee table, through the railings, Ariel saw themselves in that Zenith television, in the face of Freddy Krueger, and decided there was agency in being a monster rather than a martyr.

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A personal documentary meditation on finding power and agency through horror cinema. This is a tender, unconventional origin story about how monsters in films can offer disabled and disfigured people a radical alternative to victimhood.
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