31 October7 November
2025
31 October
2025.11.02
The exhibition Fernando Vicente: Horror film legends, from the program of the 36th Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, will be open between October 31st and November 16th at the Municipal Library Activities Hall (San Jeronimo).
This exhibition takes in some of the most iconic films of the horror genre, which from the earliest days of the Seventh Art has endowed our collective consciousness with a countless series of characters, monsters, creatures of the night, beings from other worlds and from our own that now populate some of our favourite nightmares.
Twenty-five films are depicted by Fernando Vicente in this show arising out of the book Cuando nacen los monstruos – Mitos del cine de terror (Lunwerg Editores, 2022). Two images are presented for each of them: an illustration and a possible poster. Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, Norman Bates, Freddie Krueger and Hannibal Lecter are among the characters portrayed.
The self-taught Fernando Vicente produced his earliest works as an illustrator in the first half of the 1980s, in the magazines Madriz and La Luna de Madrid. After a few years working in advertising, towards the end of the last century he resumed his illustrations in the newspaper El País and its various supplements, standing out in particular for his contributions to Babelia, which won him three Awards of Excellence from the Society for News Design. His art has also been featured in such magazines as Europa Viva, Ronda Iberia, Lápiz, Rock de Lux, Vogue, Playboy, Gentleman, Letras Libres, Interviú, Cosmopolitan and DT.
