PUBLICATIONS

BESO NEGRO
Brujería, cine y cultura pop

2023 | xxx pages | Spanish

Eighth official TerrorMolins film essay publication, for the first time in collaboration with the Semana de Cine Fantástico y de Terror de Donosti.

Published by Editorial Hermenaute
Written by Elisa McCausland and Diego Salgado

Brujería, cine y cultura pop includes that image in its title to shed dark light on a phenomenon that has continued to feature one way or another in traditional culture since the very beginnings of the Age of Reason: witchcraft. Following an introduction that takes a look back over the impact of the phenomenon on the cultural and artistic sphere of the last two centuries as an expression of the underlying discontent with the values of Modernity, the essay sets about comparing, in two clearly defined sections, the figures of the warlock and the witch, ubiquitous in audiovisual fiction. The warlock and the witch are complementary yet antagonistic figures, if we heed the means and ends they strive to achieve when subverting the prevailing values.

Beso negro Brujería, cine y cultura pop analyses the strategies of both to change reality in a show which, although focused on the cinema, still has time for the small screen, the comic and other artistic and audiovisual expressions where both warlock and witch have struggled to bring about another way of being and existing in the world. From Dion Fortune (1890-1946) and Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) to The Witch (2015) and the TikTok necromancers, this is a journey where everything seems to have been said and where everything is yet to be invoked.

BALLA-LA-DALLA
textos sobre música, terror y cine

2022 | 105 pages | CSpanish and Catalan | download

Seventh official TerrorMolins film essay publication, second time in self-published fanzine format. A collection of articles and essays on the relationship between cinema, music and horror, in its different permutations and possibilities.

Published by Molins de Rei Film Festival
Coordination by Javier Rueda
Cover and layout by Anna Aguilera and Ariadna del Hoyo

Texts by Francesc Talavera Cugueró, Sandra S. Lopera, Joan Renter, Silvia Garcia Palacios, Gonzalo López, Juan Ángel Saiz, Josep M. Luzán, Guillermo Triguero, Montecarlo, Ramón Rey, Patricia Clapés Saga, Coque Cano Arañó, Josep Calle, Xavier Cazeneuve, Carles Martinez Agenjo, Manel Calpe and David Izquierdo.

SYNOPSIS: Horror musicals are one of the most festive and carefree expressions of the relationship between cinema and music, when not deliciously crazy and irreverent. So, let yourself go and enjoy these pages written with a lot of desire to have fun. You will find singing plants with an exquisite taste for gastronomy; sweet transvestites of the transsexual Transylvania shaking the morale of mortals -and also their skeleton- great song after great song; youth that sings and dances looking for a meaning to life outside the zombie apocalypse that surrounds them; the pumpkin king cooing dazzled by the colors of Christmas; a barber and a baker doing a duet in a particular and culinary class revolution; or a faustic composer fighting against the music industry as well as himself. Also a journey through the most terrifying trends in music and culture; its relationship with the beginnings of cinema; terror and music in video clips, television and, of course, theater. All this and much more! Because it was time to give us a good party, singing and moving the skeleton. All of us deserve it. You deserve it. The curtain opens. Let the show begin!

FILMA O REVIENTA
contracultura y cine en los setenta

2021 | 75 pages | Spanish and Catalan

Sixth publication of official film essay by TerrorMolins, this time in a self-publishing in fanzine format inspired by the counterculture of the seventies. A collection of articles, essays, drawings, hobbies, experiences and occurrences around cinema and counterculture, with a special focus on the 1970s, the period in which TerrorMolins was born, specifically in 1973.

Published by Molins de Rei Film Festival
Coordination by Javier Rueda
Cover and layout by Joan Jarque
Drawings by Alfred Bofill, Josep Bergadà, Clara Roca @donagaleta and Montecarlo.
Comic strips and hobbies by Manu Guayre (NWO CORP SYSTEM) and Javier Rueda.

Texts by Joan Domènech, Carles M. Agenjo, Gerard Fossas Noguera, Sandra S Lopera, Montecarlo, Gonzalo López, Luis E. Herrero, Jimmy (Bego del Teso), Josemi Beltrán, David Izquierdo, Antonio José Navarro, Josep Luzán, Albert Galera, David Pizarro, Patricia Clapés-Saga, Manel Calpe (@manu_cal), Jaume Montmany and Zavaram.

SYNOPSIS: We are talking about cinema and counterculture, proposing a journey through proposals that are very different from each other, with a vindictive spirit and a rapturous cinephile. A tribute to that time of exploration and search for new airs. To break with everything imposed and create in the margins. To that society that was pushing to modern times. To that renewed cinema that reflected injustices and deficiencies, also fears and anxieties, of a world that screamed and continues to scream. To all those people who were part. The past meets the present, standing up and with the camera raised.

LA NATURALEZA SE REBELA

ISBN: 978-84-120819-8-5 | 2020 | 232 pages | Spanish
Book trailer | Introduction

Fifth oficial book of TerrorMolins issued by Hermenaute publishing company, as part of the Janus collection. This essay deals with the topic of “eco-horror” or “ecology horror” within genre cinema.

Published by Hermenuate
Coordination by Javier Rueda
Cover drawing by Joan Jarque
Foreword by Àlex Gorina
Texts by Guillermo Triguero, Gerard Fossas Noguera, Patricia Clapés-Saga, Marta Torres, Sandra S. Lopera and Carles M. Agenjo.

SYNOPSIS: “La naturaleza se rebela” [Nature Reveals] deals with the cinematographic topics of eco-horror or ecology horror, with films that show natural phenomena —either intrinsic to humans or not— in a what that brings sensations of horror, uneasiness, discomfort and concern. Eco-horror raised out from a crack in the idea we have of our relationship with nature, which we often consider as an entity or landscape controlled by the human race. This crack is an exit threshold for locust invasions, natural disasters, deluges o bubonic plagues, fears and snakes… It can suck out men and women, and even full villages. Sometimes they come back as monsters seeking revenge.

MICRORELATOS DE TERROR 2004-2019

Free | 2019 | 84 pages | Catalan and Spanish
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On the occasion of the feast of Saint George at home, the Molins de Rei Film Festival published and electronic book sampling all awarded short stories throughout the history of the Contest of Horror Short Stories called by the Festival in collaboration with the public library Biblioteca el Molí (formerly called Biblioteca Pau Vila) and the Molins de Rei Town Council.

Published by Molins de Rei Film Festival
Graphic design: Joan Jarque.
Coordination por Glòria Massana.
Foreword by Lluís Rueda.

A collection of all the awarded stories throughout the history of the Contest of Horror Short Story called by the Molins de Rei Film Festival in collaboration with Biblioteca el Molí (formerly called Biblioteca Pau Vila) and the town council of Molins de Rei.

LA MIRADA SURREALISTA

ISBN: 978-84-120819-2-3 | 2019 | 298 ages | Spanish

Fourth official book of TerrorMolins published by Hermenaute as part of the Janus collection. From Calanda to Berkshire, with a stop in Montana, Tocopilla and Winnipeg, this surrealistic sight will take the reader to the deepest corner of subconsciousness. It includes a photografic collection about Luis Buñuel.

Published by Hermenuate
Coordination by Albert Galera
Foreword by Joan Marimón
Texts by Javier Espada, Pattie Clapés-Saganyoles, Lluís Rueda, Tonio L. Alarcón and Albert Galera

SYNOPSIS: When Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí decided to show their thoughts and their conception of the cinematographic art, with passion and without prejudice, the result was a masterpiece that goes beyond any artistic avant-garde. ‘Un perro andaluz’ became a real flag of surrealism, in a unique and unsurpassed piece of art. Ninety years later, the impact and freedom resulting form this experimental short film are still the inspiration for many artists and film makers. With this book, we want to show the evolutive resetting of cinematographic surrealism and its outstanding connections with horror through the work of five great film makers, five masters from diverse nationalities and times, whose personal looks represent a demonstration of the proposals of one of the most exciting avant-garde movements.

DE PALMA VERSUS DE PALMA

ISBN: 978-84-947693-5-1 | 2018 | 336 pages | Spanish

Third official book of TerrorMolins published by Hermenaute, in the the Janus collection. Travelling through Brian De Palma’s films is an incredible experience.

Published by Hermenuate
Coordination by Albert Galera
Foreword by Keith Gordon
Texts by: Antonio José Navarro, Gerard Fossas Noguera, Albert Galera, Jordi Batet, Jaume Claver and Ignasi Juliachs

SYNOPSIS: The six chapters of this essay aim at showing the keys to Brian De Palma’s films. The director of “Carrie” masters the use of field depth and the choreography of the sequence shoot. Moreover he skillfully divided the screen. He is an essential movie maker who has reinvented the aesthetics of modern cinema with a mesmerising and heartbreaking new look.

MICHAEL HANEKE. LA ESTÉTICA DEL DOLOR

ISBN: 978-84-947693-0-6 | 2017 | 266 pages | Spanish

Second official book of TerrorMolins published by Hermenaute in the Janus collection. An analysis in detail of the filmography of the Austrian film maker focusing in his scariest ant most unsettling side.

Published by Hermenaute
Coordination by Albert Galera
Foreword by Carlos Losilla
Texts by Jaume Claver, Gerard Fossas Noguera, Albert Galera, Joan Doménech, Txema Luzán and Javier Rueda

SYNOPSIS: As a matter of fact, there are no limits to horror. We must overcome those taboos that block the way out of the absurdest banality, like the one that claims that a horror film must scare artificially and cover the screen with blood. And that is the point where a film maker like Michael Haneke masters to strike a disturbing impact able to bring bout our deepest fears. His approach to reality using a painful and distressing coldness, turns his films into the best representatives of horror in images.

PUEDE SER CONTAGIOSO LAS MUTACIONES EN EL CINE DE GÉNERO

ISBN: 978-84-944902-5-5 | 2016 | 254pages | Spanish
Book trailer

First official book of TerrorMolins published by Hermenaute, in the Janus collection. A trip through the history of the diverse mutant manifestations created by cinema from its start till present.

Published by Hermenaute
Coordination by Albert Galera
Foreword by Jesús Palacios
Texts by Jordi Puigdomènech, Rafael Dalmau, Albert Galera, Manel Calpe, Sergi Sanmartí, Fausto Fernández, Gerard Fossas, Javier Rueda, Israel Paredes, Jaume Claver, David Izquierdo and Quim Crusellas

SYNOPSIS: After his claim «Long live to new flesh» in ‘Videodrome’ (1983), David Cronenberg decided that time had come to adapt George Langelaan’s short story to complete his mutant film par excellence: The Fly. The 30th anniversary of “The Fly” in 2016 gave us a reason to explore some of the most relevant mutations in the genre of horror throughout its history. This book is a time travel lead by the hand of mad scientists, eccentric teachers, morally ill guys, a variety of bugs and monsters, unfortunate laboratory rats, absolutelly demented as well as unconscious characters playing gods, who in one way or another have taken part of the most unbelievable mutations ever told.

SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGY. FESTIVAL DE CINE DE TERROR DE MOLINS DE REI (2004-2011)

NO STOCK | 2012 | 92 pages | Catalan and Spanish

First issue of short stories from the Contest of Horror and Gore Short Stories of TerrorMolins. A compilation of short stories awarded or finalists in Catalan and Spanish of the Horror and Gore Short Stories called by the public library Biblioteca Pau Vila (today Biblioteca el Molí) and Molins de Rei Film Festival.

Published by Molins de Rei Film Festival
Grapic design: Roger Sàbat
Coodination by Glòria Massana
Foreword by David Izquierdo