The international premiere 'Ghost Train' and the great winner of the Sitges Festival 'The Devil's Bath' are added to the feature film program.
Horror in Catalan, protagonist of the Ç-Trencada short film section, as well as in the inaugural session, where 'Un dia al camp' will be screened, and in the Official Section, with 'Mu'.
The consolidation of the TerrorJove session, together with the children's section TerrorKids, certifies the desire of TerrorMolins to reach audiences of all ages.
The festival launches a website to renew its image and organize content.
November is approaching and with it the Molins de Rei Horror Film Festival, in a 43rd edition dedicated to rural terror that will take place between the 8th and 17th of this month. In addition to all the new features and programming already announced, there are two very special feature films, short film selections, divided into three sections where you can see the best of the genre in short format and where there will be a large presence of horror in the Catalan language, and two sessions dedicated to children, with the traditional TerrorKids, and teenagers, with TerrorJove. In addition, TerrorMolins launches website, a page that renews the image and tidy up and makes all the information about the contest clearer.
The most outstanding horror short films.Apart from the three competitive sections, the opening and closing sessions will consist, as every year, of a short film linked to the leitmotif that underpins the festival or that stands out in particular. They will be A day in the field, by Albert Portal, and Drizzle in Johnson, by Ivan Li, respectively. The first is a horror comedy in Catalan that parodies classics such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the second is a psychedelic animation that follows a man in his search for the truth and that has been shown at festivals such as Motel X or Fantastic Fest.
The Official Short Film Section will consist of twenty films, including some particularly prominent titles and names. Kelsey Bollig, director of Kickstart My Heart, winner of the Víctor Israel Award for best performance at TerrorMolins 2022, returns to the festival for the third time with his new film, Inked, around a sinister tattoo that awakens echoes of the past. The new film by Indian filmmaker Adesh Prasad, co-director of the award-winning feature film at Sitges Tumbbad (2016), will be present in the Official Section of TerrorMolins with Demons, a queer horror story with gore touches. Dutch Nina Gantz lands at the festival with the animated gem Wander to Wonder, a metacinematic tragedy selected at the Venice Film Festival and winner of a Méliès d'Argent award. Also notable, among the main competitive section, is the new work by veteran Argentine director Andrés Borghi, who co-directs with Ivan Rojas Devora, about a couple who attend a suspiciously strange dinner, the first cinematic foray by magician Jandro, Cava, awarded in a dozen competitions, or the film in Catalan Mu, by Javier Méndez Cañada.
The Ç-Torn section, dedicated to Catalan productions, will be, this year, mostly in Catalan. Among the eight short films selected, new works by well-known filmmakers who are regulars in the festival's programming stand out, such as Cris Gambín and Toni Pinel, winners of the Ç-Trencada award in 2019 and who this year present Aamon; Ferran Carbonell, who returns to the festival with Dry water after having projected at the closing session of 2023 Na Ribas, or Ian Garrucho and Daniel Noblom, with 3, 2, 1 i Parasomnia, respectively. There will also be films such as Bertha, by Lucía Forner Segarra, which arrives after passing through the Seminci of Valladolid, or 7 minutes to paradise, by Victoria Avinyó, which will be seen in its world premiere.
As for the online section, Balloon, which places a special focus on diversity and new perspectives and which, like the Retrospective of feature films, which can be seen on the Filmin platform, will consist of ten works and two blocks of Latin American short films programmed in collaboration with the prestigious Nieve Roja Festival in Argentina and the FantLatam alliance.
Feature films: two luxury additions.The festival's feature film program includes two final films that will round out the selection. They are:’The Devil's Bath, by Austrian directors Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz, a great winner at the Sitges Festival, and the Korean Ghost Train, by Tak Se-woong, which will have its international premiere at TerrorMolins. In addition, the Retrospective section, which can be seen through Filmin, will bring together some of the most emblematic titles of rural horror, such as The hills have eyes, Wake In Fright o The last house on the left, in addition to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
TerrorKids and TerrorJove.TerrorMolins maintains its commitment to reaching audiences of all ages with the now usual TerrorKids sessions, where you can see a selection of short films for children divided into two blocks, including 4 Spanish premieres, one Catalan and one European, and films such as Impossible Diseases, Méliès d'Argent award at the Strasbourg Festival. There will also be simultaneous workshops where attendees can create a scarecrow and sow “terrifying” seeds. For TerrorJove, a session that is being consolidated after the success of the first year and in which a group of young collaborators of the festival program the film and stimulate a subsequent debate, the selected film is Párvulos: Sons of the apocalypse, by Mexican director Isaac Ezban.