TerrorMolins 2025 will open with the Spanish premiere of 'Dysforia', directed by Christopher Cartagena, and will close with 'La Frecuencia Kirlian', by Argentine director Cristian Ponce, also a state premiere.
The program includes new proposals that can be seen in Molins de Rei. Among them stand out 'Que ma volonté soit faite (Her Will Be Done)', 'Monkey's Magic Merry Go Round', 'Kinki Chiho no Aru Basho ni Tsuite (About a Place in the Kinki Region)', 'Man Finds Tape', 'Bramayugam', 'Rabbit Trap', 'Geomeun sunyeodeul (Dark Nuns)', 'Bodycam', 'Night of the Reaper' and 'It Ends', which are added to the already announced.
With this new wave of titles, the press accreditation period for its 44th edition begins.
Dysphoria
The Molins de Rei Horror Film Festival presents its opening and closing films. The 44th edition will begin with Dysphoria, directed by Christopher Cartagena, and will conclude with The Kirlian Frequency, from the Argentine filmmaker Christian Ponce, both in state premiere. The filmmakers, as well as members of their artistic and technical teams, will accompany the audience to the opening and closing sessions.
The Spanish Dysphoria will be screened at the festival after its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in Texas. The film tells the story of a young couple who, fleeing the insecurity of the city, move with their young daughter to the family country house with the intention of selling it and continuing their journey to France. The disappearance of the father and the appearance of a mysterious visitor trigger a terrifying spiral of tension, turning the family environment into a nightmare.
For his part, The Kirlian Frequency sets the action in a city that doesn't appear on maps, where a nighttime radio announcer gives voice to stories of ghosts, curses and monstrous creatures. The combination of animation and live-action pays homage to the underground culture of the 1980s, the fanzines and fantastic stories that marked an entire generation. The project was born as an independent web series, later became a phenomenon on Netflix and now arrives at TerrorMolins as a feature film.
Twelve new titles and premieres at TerrorMolins 2025. The program includes a new list of international productions that consolidate the festival as a showcase for the best genre cinema of the year. Among them are Que ma volonté soit faite (Her Will Be Done), a tale of witchcraft and hallucinations that comes from France by the hand of Julia Kowalski, following in the footsteps of the great French fantasy directors and selected at Cannes. From the USA, Monkey's Magic Merry Go Round —in its Spanish premiere—transforms a seemingly innocent children's program into a murky and disturbing show, not at all suitable for a child audience. Australia contributes Together, a shocking body horror starring Alison Brie i Dave Franco, which has already become one of the phenomena of the season by portraying toxic relationships and codependency in a terrifying way. For its part, Kinki Chiho no Aru Basho ni Tsuite (About a Place in the Kinki Region) brings back the best of cinema from Japanese horror with disappearances and paranormal phenomena under the direction of Koji Shiraishi, while the’India Bramayugam combines horror folk and a hypnotic black and white to transport the viewer to the heart of darkness and madness.
It is also incorporated Rabbit Trap, the British director's debut Bryn Chainey, a film of disturbing atmospheres and presences starring Dev Patel and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Of United States arrives The Long Walk (The Long Walk), an adaptation of a Stephen King novel directed by Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games), which portrays a brutal competition in a dystopian future and evokes both the current phenomenon The squid game as classic as Dance, dance, you damned ones!. From Korea, Geomeun sunyeodeul (Dark Nuns) —spin-off from The Priests— mixes nuns, shamans, tarot and possessions in a new Korean-style exorcism. And with Bodycam, the Canadian Brandon Christensen (The Puppetman, TerrorMolins 2023) presents in Spanish premiere an intense found footage about violence and despair.
They complete the selection Man Finds Tape (USA), a hybrid between a documentary about obscure cults and found footage of paranormal phenomena; Night of the Reaper (Canada, Spanish premiere), a tribute to the slasher classics like Halloween o Scream, with VHS and mysteries in a small town; and It Ends (USA), which arrives at TerrorMolins after its world premiere at SXSW, with the directorial debut of’Alex Ullom and the story of a group of young people trapped on an endless path while being besieged by unknown forces.
Start of the press accreditation period. With this new wave of titles, the Molins de Rei Horror Film Festival not only consolidates its annual event with film lovers and professionals of the genre, but also offers a unique opportunity to discover the most innovative and impactful proposals in contemporary horror. This announcement also opens the period of’press accreditations of the festival, which can now be requested here.