Molins de Rei Horror Film Festival 2025

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The Catalan village of Molins de Rei doesn't seem like the most terrifying place, but that all changes every November with the annual Horror Film Festival.

Every year, the festival showcases a carefully-curated collection of national and international horror films with three main objectives: to be a platform for new filmmakers, to become a meeting point for the country’s audiovisual industry and to serve as a space for new audiences with many sessions aimed at young people. With 10 days of screenings and a very clear international vocation, it is a point of reference in southern Europe in terms of horror genre films. The 2025 program will be announced in the fall.

2024 Program

Last year's theme was "rural terror," referring to some of the most representative films of horror cinema and commemorating one of the most iconic and revolutionary events of all: the 50th anniversary of the release of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Tobe Hooper's 1974 film had enormous influence on pop culture and the collective imagination, especially in horror fiction.

From South Korea came Exuma, a film about evil spirits and collective traumas through the experience of a shaman who goes on a dangerous mission in a remote part of the country. Also Korean, was the black comedy Handsome Guys, a film that draws on references like Tucker & Dale vs. Evil to tell the story of two friends who move to an isolated house where they are besieged by a strange presence.

With an equally comical tone the Dutch film Krazy House was screened. A film that begins as an innocent family sitcom and turns into a violent home invasion full of dark humor. Another well-known face that passed through the screens of TerrorMolins was that of the Australian actress Samara Weaving, protagonist of one of the most anticipated horror films of the year. Azrael, by E.L. Katz , portrayed a journey to hell through secret cults and creatures of the underworld that combines survival with some common denominators of rural terror.

In the Irish Oddity, awarded at the prestigious American festival SXSW and directed by Damian McCarthy, the murder of a woman becomes the obsession of her sister, an audacious blind medium. And from France was MadS, by David Moreau, an intense journey in real time full of drugs, parties, blood and nightmares, and Animale, by Emma Benestan, a story that expertly mixes drag racing in the French Camargue and the coming-of-age with touches of horror, a new sample of the big female names in French genre cinema.

For more events check our online events calendar.