Here I am primarily concerned with the construction of an alien other using the example of the horror film.
In television fiction, the disabled person seems to be affected by an illness that causes him to perform socially inappropriate, if not legally punishable, actions. For this reason, it often happens that we approach reality through the representations that the media propose to us, so much so that we conclude that this is all the more credible the more it resembles what is described rather than what we are most familiar with.
Mad scientists are sometimes portrayed as disabled, the best example is Doctor Caligari from the eponymous silent movie. The other good example is the trope of "Hunchback Servant" from many classic horrors (for modern example for this trope, watch "Van Helsing" with Hugh Jackman).
A few weeks ago I was watching TV and looking for some movie. It was random "zapping". One of the movie channels played "Hannibal", the third installment of the famous film franchise. I watched maybe, say, 20 minutes. The "ultimate bad guy" of the story is Mason Verger, depraved billionare who was once tortured and almost killled by Hannibal Lecter. At the beginning of the story, Verger is a cripple on a wheelchair. Maybe that's the movie you're looking for? But I warn you - the movie is full of violence. I couldn't stand it. My favourite horrors are "Dracula" by Francis F. Coppola and "The Fog" by John Carpenter...
As a contradiction of the tropes mentioned above, you can write something about superhero movies' characters - like Charles Xavier or War Machine (James Rhodes).
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