La Semana de Donostia, Fancine, TerrorMolins and Isla Calavera premiere unpublished content that can be viewed for free on the channel from November
Autumn once again opens the doors of the fantastic imagination with a new season of Ghost November, the collaborative project that brings together the San Sebastián Fantastic and Horror Film Week, Fancine – Fantastic Film Festival of the University of Málaga, TerrorMolins – Molins de Rei Horror Film Festival i Isla Calavera – Fantastic Film Festival of the Canary Islands Ciudad de La Laguna. In its sixth edition, the initiative reinforces the union between the four competitions and continues to expand its offer with more than twenty unpublished audiovisual proposals, which will be progressively uploaded from this month on the project's website. In this way, this common space for enjoying the genre throughout the year is consolidated for another year, with interviews, talks, concerts and other activities that bring a little of each festival closer to genre lovers from anywhere. All these videos can be enjoyed for free on the platform www.noviembrephantasma.com.
Programming
The Donostia Terror Week proposes a journey through the legacy and evolution of horror in popular culture, with names ranging from anime to classic cinema. One of these proposals will be “"One Piece: Luffy and Luffy, two voices, two generations"”, a dialogue between Xavier Alkiza i Jon Samaniego, the dubbing actors who have given life to the charismatic pirate in both the Basque-language series and the live-action Netflix series. The illustrator Fernando Vicente, three-time winner of the Society for News Design award, will review his career and his fascination with the myths of cinematic horror, while the acclaimed director Paco Plaza, responsible for such successful titles as 'Verónica', 'La abuela' or the first two installments of 'REC' together with Jaume Balagueró, will talk to the journalist Begoña del Teso about their “favorite terrors” and the films that have marked their imagination. The contents of the Basque competition are completed with “Terror Shark”, a meeting between Angel Sala i Victor Matellano around his documentary 'That Last Shark' and the fiftieth anniversary of Spielberg's classic, with a look back at half a century of marine creatures and saltwater panics.
For his part, TerrorMolins will give us a didactic and contemporary approach to the technique and geographical roots of fear. The visual effects artist Pablo Otero, with experience in international productions such as 'The Mandalorian' or 'Avengers: Endgame', will reveal the secrets of working in a top-level VFX studio. We will also have two more proposals with a Japanese passport. The specialists in Asian cinema Gloria Fernandez i Enrique Garcelan, from CineAsia, will analyze the arrival and consolidation of the J-Horror in the West, while the researcher Victor Navarro Remesal, doctor in Game Studies, will address ‘'Playable J-Horror'’ the way video games like 'Silent Hill' or 'Fatal Frame' have reinterpreted fear from Japanese tradition and aesthetics, in collaboration with Fundación Japón Madrid.
From the archipelago to the entire fantastic universe, Skull Island will feature a veritable parade of genre cinema legends. The director Randal Kleiser, author of 'Grease' and 'The Navigator's Flight', will receive the Isla Calavera Award of Honor 2025 and will review his career in a meeting with the public. The actors Jenette Goldstein i William Hope, the unforgettable Vasquez and Lieutenant Gorman from 'Aliens: The Return', will relive with fans the secrets of the filming of the saga. The director Rodrigo Cortes will commemorate the 15th anniversary of 'Buried', while the actress Ornella Muti, the eternal Princess Aura from 'Flash Gordon', will be the protagonist of a meeting about her career. The closing will come from the hand of dialogue ‘'Ghost Terror'’, with Marian Salgado i Victor Matellano, in tribute to the 50th anniversary of 'The Haunted Woman', a jewel of Spanish horror.
Finally, Fancine – Málaga Fantastic Film Festival will open your eyes to other languages and territories. Irish Damian McCarthy, director of 'Caveat' and 'Oddity', stars in an interview about the echoes of the horror folk in his cinema, marked by the landscapes and popular beliefs of his country. Eric Rodriguez, popularizer and creator of the channel “Leyendas & Videojuegos”, will explore the intersection between mythology and culture gamer in a talk that connects Nintendo with Sun Tzu and universal legends. The screenwriter and National Comic Award winner Antonio Altarriba will share his experience in creating visual narratives at “"From the script of the comic to the presentation in images"”, while music will once again be the protagonist of the university competition with a live performance by Silver Leggings, Malaga band from space-psych rock, and with the soundtrack concert ‘'Soundscapes of the Future'’, where the’Malaga Symphony Orchestra will perform scores from 'Interstellar', 'Mad Max: Fury Road' or 'WALL·E' in a musical journey through science fiction cinema.
About NOVEMBER GHOST
Born in 2020 as a digital meeting space between festivals during the pandemic, Ghost November has consolidated itself over the years as a living archive of fantasy and horror cinema in Spanish. More than a hundred talks, interviews, concerts and debates now make up its video library, open to the public free of charge throughout the year. This sixth season reinforces this vocation of permanence, expanding the boundaries of the genre beyond the cinemas and claiming collaboration as a form of cultural resistance.
36th San Sebastián Fantastic and Horror Film Week, from October 31 to November 7.
44th TerrorMolins – Molins de Rei Horror Film Festival, from November 7 to 16.
9th Isla Calavera – Fantastic Film Festival of the Canary Islands Ciudad de La Laguna, from November 7 to 16.
35ª Fancine – Málaga Fantastic Film Festival, from November 12 to 18.