The festival will open its doors with the state premiere of 'La Damnée' and will close with the celebrated 'The Rule of Jenny Pen'.
‘'La sustancia' and 'V/H/S/Beyond' are incorporated into a program that aims to combine the most awarded cinema with the discovery of new talents.
TerrorMolins will premiere in the country 'An Taibhse', the first horror film in history shot in Gaelic, and 'Rita', by the renowned Guatemalan director Jayro Bustamante.
Fears of social alienation and abuse of power underpin the programming of the 43rd edition of the competition.
01/10/2024 | The 43rd edition of TerrorMolins already has opening and closing films. It's the French one The Damned and the New Zealander The Rule of Jenny Pen, respectively, which will also compete in the Official Section of the festival. To these is added a new batch of proposals that will be part of the Molins de Rei Horror Film Festival 2024 programming. Among all the feature films there are six Spanish premieres and one Catalan; well-known and recognized names such as James Ashcroft, Coralie Fargeat or Jayro Bustamante, great genre film titles of the season such as The substance o V/H/S/Beyond and discoveries like the Irish one The Ghost or the North Americans Screening Test i Blood Star. The festival will also host the screening of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre on the 50th anniversary of its release. Tobe Hooper's film has become the most emblematic title of the rural horror subgenre, as well as of the 12 Hours of Horror marathon, origin and epicenter of the current TerrorMolins.
The most oppressive terror. The selection of feature films for TerrorMolins 2024 has a marked female presence, starting with the inaugural film, The Damned, by Abel Danan, which will be screened on the evening of Friday, November 8th in its Spanish premiere. A forceful and claustrophobic debut that takes place in a small Parisian apartment. A young Moroccan woman moves in there to study at university, but when she discovers that she is not alone, she is dangerously headed towards the abyss of madness. Also in its national premiere and also in the Official Selection is Rita, by Jayro Bustamante. The Guatemalan director, whose previous film, The crybaby, was part of the 39th TerrorMolins program, adapts some terrible real events —the deadly revolt of a group of girls in a juvenile center in the Central American country— and takes them to the realms of fantasy and terror, in an author's proposal that went through the prestigious Fantasia festival. The Being Different section, dedicated to the most heterodox horror cinema, includes the first film of the genre spoken in Irish Gaelic. It is about’The Ghost, by John Farrelly, set in 19th-century Ireland, in which a teenage girl and her father accept a job as farmhands in a country house and find themselves in a delicate situation of isolation. And in the third of the main sections, Bloody Madness, where the most extreme and visceral proposals are found, is incorporated Blood Star, broad daylight terror in which a girl is chased through desert roads by a psychopathic police officer.
Another kind of oppression, in this case aesthetic, is dealt with in what has become the phenomenon of the season, and which is incorporated into the TerrorMolins programming as a special session. The substance, by French director Coralie Fargeat, won the award for best screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival and will be screened at the Molineux festival on a spectacular Sunday afternoon where they will also be seen Azrael i V/H/S/Beyond.
And the most festive proposals. And precisely V/H/S/Beyond is one of the films that will be part of the most casual selection of TerrorMolins 2024. After V/H/S/2, V/H/S/94 i V/H/S/85, all of which were screened at the festival, the most playful and heterogeneous saga returns to Molins with six new stories where terror and found footage are mixed with science fiction. To this are added two more state premieres such as Screening Test i Scared Shitless. Screening Test he drinks references like John Carpenter, David Cronenberg and series like Stranger Things to offer an adventure of cosmic terrors in which a group of teenagers must face a conspiracy that leads to the annulment of the will of the inhabitants of a small town, and in comedy Scared Shitless Two plumbers must face an evil creature that attacks the residents of a building through their toilets.
The closing session will be headlined by James Ashcroft's new film, after he won the awards for best direction, screenplay and actress at TerrorMolins in 2021 with his debut film, Trapped in the dark. The Rule of Jenny Pen is a duel of talents, characters and performances in the form of a thriller and with two stellar actors: John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush. Ashcroft's new film, set in a nursing home where an elderly man is dedicated to terrifying patients, has become one of the sensations of the year after having passed through Fantastic Fest and having been listed as one of the films of the year by Stephen King.