TerrorMolins Timeline:
Festival de Cine de Terror de Molins de Rei
New design for terrorMolins
The design of the new corporate identity is revealed, looking for a brand repositioning of the Molins de Rei Horror Film Festival empowering the “M” for Molins.
Molins Horror Games 1st edition
In 2017 we offered for the first time a game day devoted to horror and mystery board games.
Book: Michael Haneke: La estética del dolor
For the second year in a row, the Festival along with publisher editorial Hermenaute presented the Festival’s book Michael Haneke: La estética del dolor.
XXXVI Edition
TerrorMolins 2017 made a tribute to the director Michael Haneke focusing on its famous film Funny Games, of which we had its main actor Arno Fritz as Festival’s Jury.
Movistar+ becomes TerrorMolins’ partner
Year after year, the Festival is growing up and there is no better way than doing it with the helping hand of companies that support cinema: We welcome Movistar+.
Book: Puede ser contagioso. Las mutaciones en el cine de género
TerrorMolins first official book: Puede ser contagioso. Las mutaciones en el cine de género (IT MAY BE INFECTIOUS. MUTATIONS IN GENRE CINEMA). A thorough review of the diverse mutant instances created by the genre cinema since its beginnings until now.
David Cronenberg invites you to TerrorMolins
Canadian director David Cronenberg supports us.
XXXV Edition
The 2016 edition had mutations as main subject and The Fly movie as main character.
XXXIV Edition
Edition focused on phobias with the 50th anniversary of the Repulsion film by Roman Polanski as a backdrop.
New 20 Seconds Horror Video Contest
The first edition of the 20 Seconds Horror Video Contest is launched. It started limited to Twitter and was expanded to other social networks in later editions.
Aved Producciones se incorpora al staff
Aved Producciones, with a long history of collaboration with the Festival, officially joins the TerrorMolins staff.
XXXIII Edition
With the eroticism in the genre as leitmotif, in that 2014 edition the shorts of the official section could be seen at Filmin during the Festival.
TerrorMolins joins Melies
Molins Horror Film Festival is chosen to be part of the prestigious European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation.
XXXII Edition
Edition with censorship as leitmotif in which we could finally screen A Serbian Film. We also had the European premiere of “2/11 Día De Los Muertos” as well as the presence of its director Ezzio Massa.
XXXI Edition
Edition dedicated to the origins of horror that also featured the exhibition “ExpoTAC: Cases encantades”.
Terrorweekend becomes official press media
The horror webpage Terrorweekend becomes the official press partner for TerrorMolins festival.
Recull de relats
The book “Recull de relats. Festival de cine de terror de Molins de Rei (2004-2011)” is published with a compilation of the short stories and winning and finalist micro stories in Catalan and Spanish of our Short Stories Contest organized with Biblioteca Pau Vila.
XXX Edition
We launch our Feature Film Competition with 7 titles in competion.
First tweet by @terrormolins
On March 22nd 2011 at 7:04pm we published our first message in the Festival’s twitter account.
”A Serbian Film” suspended
The Festival replaced “A Serbian Film” for “Martyrs” at the 12 Hours Marathon when it’s projection in San Sebastian is suspended by a court.
XXIX Edition
In an edition with “road movies” as leitmotif attended by 1,350 people we received the visit of actress Deborah Karah Unger.
TAC is created
Molins Film Festival becomes a founding member of Terror Arreu de Catalunya (TAC), an association of Catalan film festivals dedicated to the horror genre.
XXVIII Edition
In that edition we had as a guest the original Jason Vorhees, the actor Ari Lehman, who also offered us a concert.
XXVII Edition
The Festival moves from Juventud Católica to Teatro de La Peni.
Original Fictions Exhibition
Linked to the Festival, the exhibition Original Fictions in collaboration with DDT Efectes Especials is held.
XXVI Edition
The 2007 edition includes an exhibition of acrylics by Agustín Berenger, Expoterror.
1st Horror Short Stories Contest
In 2007 the first edition of the Short Horror Stories Contest is held in collaboration with Molins de Rei Townhall, Pau Vila library and Miasma magazine.
XXV Edition
In the 25th edition we organized an exhibition of the Festival’s posters and screenings took place at La Sala Gòtica and at Biblioteca Pau Vila.
Festival’s first TV commercial
In 2006 we presented the first TerrorMolins TV commercial, made by Paco Ruiz, who is still responsible for the annual TV spot up to this date.
XIV Edition
Official Festival Poster contest and debut of the webpage.
Jess Franco at TerrorMolins 2004
Jess Franco and Karra Elejalde visit our Festival.
XXIII Edition
We have the Spanish premiere of The Drowning Host and Dead Birds.
XXII Edition
In the 2003 poster the future logo of the Festival takes shape, also a collaboration with Siltges Film Festival iniciates.
30 years of Molins Film Festival
30th anniversary of the foundation of the Molins Horror Film Festival. Enjoy the documentary.
IXX Edition
Short films exhibition and the 12 Hours Horror Marathon get together in a weekend with a new format in Molins de Rei.
XVIII Edition 12 Hours Horror Marathon
In 2001 the 12 Hours move to October, abandoning summer forever.
XVIII Edition 1st Short Film Exhibition
In 2001 the 12 Hours celebrate their 1st Short Film Exhibition.
XVII Edition
After a three years pause the 12 Hours return under the name of Molins de Rei 12 Hours Fantastic and Horror Marathon.
XVI Edition
The performance for the 1989 12 Hours Horror Marathon were unforgettable.
XV Edition
Hellraiser was one of the films at the 1988 Molins de Rei 12 Hours Horror Marathon.
XIV Edition
That year we offered around 7am a breakfast of “sangonada” in a edition of the 12 Hours that extended its duration until nex day’s noon.
XIII Edition
In 1986 we screened films like A nightmare on en Elm Street, Fright Night or Re-animator.
XII Edition
In that edition the 12 Hours have to overcome a similar cinema event celebrated few days before.
XI Edition
Edition with projections at the Cine Club, at Foment and also at the Cine Joventut.
The 12 Hours go private
DerkoFilms takes over the 12 Hours Horror Marathon.
X Edition
The year of the controversial obituary used to promote the Festival.
IX Edition
In that edition we screened films from directors John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper, David Cronenberg, Joe Dante and Stanley Kubrick amongst others.
VIII Edition
That year the 12 Hours Marathon was held not only at Cine Joventut but also at Sala Versalles.
Edition VII
That 1980 edition of the Molins Horror Film Festival was held the 5th of July at 10 p.m. at Cine Joventut and the tickets could be bought at Estanco Margarit.
VI Edition
Ticket for Molins 12 Hour Horror Marathon 1979. That edition is rememberred for its chainsaw performance.
Edition V
The 16 hours become what they are today, a 12 Hours Horror Marathon.
Edition IV
In 1976 we were offering a 16 Hours Horror Marathon for 300 pesetas, which would be €1,80 approximately.
First Edition
In 1973 what today we know as TerrorMolins begins with the first 16 Hours Horror Marathon.
The beginning
THE «HORROR MARATHON» STARTED OUT IN 1973, THE OLDEST ONE ALL OVER SPAIN. IT WAS AN EMBRYO STAGE OF THE HORROR MOVIE FESTIVAL WE KNOW TODAY.
Back in 1973, the local film club were chewing over the way of getting some extra income that helped them to improve their rock-bottom financial estate. They surprised everybody with a fully breaking idea that, even today, more than forty years later, is still alive and kicking with a big success. The first «Horror Movie Marathon» across the country was being born. In the first two years, it consisted of 16 hours of genre cinema; after the third edition it became the now classical «Molins de Rei 12 Hours of Horror Movies». Since then, the «12 Hores» have turned into the Festival that we know today.
1973, the birth of a notion. The new age of horror.
In 1973 there was a re-birth of the genre of horror in the cinematographic industry, materialized in William Friedkin’s The Exorcist. The great commercial success of the film brought about an intense follow-up of devilish sequels and sub-products. It was the start of a new dimension of cinema full of sensationalism within the horror genre which showed up in an unstoppable increase of the sadistic boast and a decay of the old ellipsis that the old censorship codes had imposed, which were ruled out in order to protect the competition of cinema against television. Dare I say that Polanski was the last one who, in 1968, within that generic new language, used the classic idea of suggesting rather than showing the devilish baby-child at the end of Rose Mary’s Baby. The brilliant Polanski knew that the imagination of the audience can be more disturbing than raw reality. At this point, as an exercise of cinematographic expertise, we can compare Polanski’s non-present devilish baby-child with the purulent and extensively shown protagonist girl exhibited by Friedkin in The Exorcist to measure the new horror cinema that started to crowd the screens at the beginning of a golden era, the 70’s.
Joan Domènech, 28-06-2007, Molins de Rei.
President of Cine Club Hal 2002
Source: AVED Produccions web page.
