The festival will commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of its horror marathon, the oldest in Europe, by exceptionally returning to its original format of 16 hours of cinema. .
The poster, designed by filmmaker Paco Ruiz with the help of artificial intelligence, represents the face of a woman from fragments: a witch of which there are many.
The TerrorMolins – Molins de Rei Horror Film Festival, is now in its 42nd edition, which will be held from 3 to 12 November and which, as already announced, has witches and witchcraft as its main themes. This leitmotif is the focus of this year's poster, a design by filmmaker Paco Ruiz based on images created with artificial intelligence and composed as a collage. This edition also marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Terror Marathon, the oldest in Europe and the seed of what is now the TerrorMolins festival.
Witches, the poster. As announced, the theme of TerrorMolins 2023 is witches, a leitmotif —Sorginak-Bruixes— that the festival shares with the Donostia-San Sebastián Fantastic and Horror Film Week. The poster reflects this by showing the face of a woman formed from the deconstruction of different female faces, and aims to be a tribute to the more than one hundred thousand women who are estimated to have been accused and murdered for witchcraft in Europe between the 15th and 18th centuries. The technique used is collage based on the creation of photographs, digital retouching and the creation of images with artificial intelligence. In other words: the visible faces that appear on the poster are not real women, but creations from patterns formed by millions of images. The creator of the poster, Paco Ruiz, is a filmmaker and professor of cinematographic language, trained at ESCAC and author of the short films Insidious i Maria, among others.
50 years of marathon, 16 hours of terror. On July 7, 1973, the Molins de Rei Cineclub organized the first 16-hour horror marathon, thus initiating an unmissable annual event where many of the most famous films of the genre have been screened, from Psychosis until The Exorcist, Night of the Living Dead o The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, among many others. Fifty years later, this marathon is still very much alive and is considered the oldest in Europe, which is why TerrorMolins wants to celebrate it by exceptionally returning to its most extreme format: 16 hours of cinema, a gift that the organization wants to give to the public who has followed the event during these five decades until today. Therefore, the 42nd TerrorMolins will celebrate this essential anniversary with the most intensive marathon in recent times —which will take place, as always, in La Peni— and other surprises that will be announced as the festival approaches.