News First Wave - MOTELX 2025: first news of the upcoming edition The 19th edition of MOTELX is coming. From September 9 to 15, 2025, Cinema São Jorge will once again host the Lisbon International Horror Film Festival, which now announces its first new features. 04.07.2025 "Tombs of the Blind Dead" Ticket Giveaway, with Passos no Escuro MOTELX takes it's final walk with Passos no Escuro this season, as we offered tickets for the screening of the film "Tombs of the Blind Dead", by Amando de Ossorio, on July 2nd at 10:00 PM at Passos Manuel (Porto). Check out the winners. 28.06.2025 "Lost Room Film Laboratory": MOTELX returns at NOVA FCSH MOTELX and NOVA FCSH team up again for the "Lost Room Film Laboratory", a filmmaking workshop to produce a short horror film in 3 days. 26.06.2025 "M3GAN 2.0" Ticket Giveaway We have once again teamed up with Cinemundo to promote the national premiere of "M3GAN 2.0", by Gerard Johnstone, with the offer of 25 double tickets for the preview sessions on June 24th, at 9:30 pm, in cinemas in Lisbon and Porto. Check out the winners here. 20.06.2025 MOTELX in Dread Central's Top 20 of the Best Genre Film Festivals on Earth MOTELX was honored with a place in the top 20 of Dread Central’s list of “The 90 Best Genre Film Festivals on Earth,” recognized for a combination of criteria such as a high-level premiere program, an abundance of workshops and a remarkable festive atmosphere, “where audiences often mingle with special guests.” The list was compiled based on the nominations of more than 30 industry experts — from renowned festival programmers to distributors and filmmakers — who particularly valued MOTELX's demanding curation of genre cinema and its ability to foster national horror production. 18.06.2025
First Wave - MOTELX 2025: first news of the upcoming edition The 19th edition of MOTELX is coming. From September 9 to 15, 2025, Cinema São Jorge will once again host the Lisbon International Horror Film Festival, which now announces its first new features. 04.07.2025
"Tombs of the Blind Dead" Ticket Giveaway, with Passos no Escuro MOTELX takes it's final walk with Passos no Escuro this season, as we offered tickets for the screening of the film "Tombs of the Blind Dead", by Amando de Ossorio, on July 2nd at 10:00 PM at Passos Manuel (Porto). Check out the winners. 28.06.2025
"Lost Room Film Laboratory": MOTELX returns at NOVA FCSH MOTELX and NOVA FCSH team up again for the "Lost Room Film Laboratory", a filmmaking workshop to produce a short horror film in 3 days. 26.06.2025
"M3GAN 2.0" Ticket Giveaway We have once again teamed up with Cinemundo to promote the national premiere of "M3GAN 2.0", by Gerard Johnstone, with the offer of 25 double tickets for the preview sessions on June 24th, at 9:30 pm, in cinemas in Lisbon and Porto. Check out the winners here. 20.06.2025
MOTELX in Dread Central's Top 20 of the Best Genre Film Festivals on Earth MOTELX was honored with a place in the top 20 of Dread Central’s list of “The 90 Best Genre Film Festivals on Earth,” recognized for a combination of criteria such as a high-level premiere program, an abundance of workshops and a remarkable festive atmosphere, “where audiences often mingle with special guests.” The list was compiled based on the nominations of more than 30 industry experts — from renowned festival programmers to distributors and filmmakers — who particularly valued MOTELX's demanding curation of genre cinema and its ability to foster national horror production. 18.06.2025