“MOTELX’s Lost Room - The Films of Portuguese Horror (1911-2006)” resumes this section’s objective by suggesting a national corpus of this cinematographic genre. This book therefore presents a set of texts about these films, offering a first look at them, written by a heterogenous group of authors, such as directors, academics and artists.

The epic MOTELQuiz night returned with questions about horror and pop culture in a laid-back evening where prizes and susprises were plenty.

MOTELX Horror Island is a virtual reality game which involves the imagery of the Festival and its home base, Cinema São Jorge. Inside the game, the goal is to find the portal that takes the player to a safe space, away from the ghosts that inhabit the cinema’s facilities. Developed by teachers and students from IADE — Faculty of Design, Technology and Innovation of Universidade Europeia, this experience challenged its participants to come out unscathed of this survival game, where only the bravest prevailed.

“BANGCAST!” is a podcast by BANG! Magazine, the biggest pop culture mag in Portugal, edited by Edições Saída
de Emergência. Hosted by Luís Corte Real, Luís Filipe Silva and Bruno Martins Soares, BANGCAST is dedicated to everything surrounding nerd culture, from cinema, television, literature and graphic novels, and also gaming, board games and cosplay. This time, it will be recorded live, at MOTELX, with a very special guest: João Monteiro. The goal is to talk about MOTELX and, of course, the best of horror in Portugal.

Rita Alfaiate started drawing from a very early age as a joke, bringing her stories and characters to life. Perhaps, this is the reason why she found in comic books her main achievement as an artist. In 2017, she published “No Caderno da Tangerina”, followed in 2019 by “Tangerina”. This year she returns with yet another story about the character Tangerina — a new classmate with a strange and mysterious notebook. The presentation of the book will be followed by a brief signing session.