40 editions and 48 years The Molins de Rei Horror Film Festival has a preference for the unusual and in celebrating editions and years it should not be less. A kind of cognitive dissonance, caused by a long hiatus during the nineties, which turns what could have been the crisis of the forties into the celebration of an existence of almost half a century. That is why it looks back to its beginnings, to that 1973 that gave rise to the oldest horror film marathon in the state, embryo of the current festival. A groundbreaking cultural initiative in those times when social effervescence was making its way through the cracks of a regime and a caste that was not supposed to last more than four days... they said.
Counterculture In general, any organized and visible social mobilization, whose actions and values contrast with those of the established norm. Or in other words: an offensive against the official culture; a "counterculture" that arises on the margins, in the underground A term that also defines a historical moment, which in Spain goes from 1968 to 1978, although its ramifications end up reaching the early eighties. An era and movements, and also an attitude that we could say saw and will always see horror cinema as a genre where it can go one step ahead, that breaks the barriers of what can be shown and explained.
This year, Terrormolins will pay tribute to that time of exploration and search for new airs. Of breaking with impositions, transgressing everything that is official to create outside the margins. Of generating meeting spaces from an associative and community perspective. To this society that pushed towards modernity. To that renewed horror cinema that showed injustices and deficiencies, fears and anxieties, of a world that cried out and continues to cry out. Past and present meet, standing and with the camera raised.