The jury facilitated a unique encounter between two iconic figures: poet Joan Brossa and Jacinto Molina, a.k.a. Paul Naschy. The selection featured two generations of Italian filmmakers: Lamberto Bava picked up where his late father left off with the morbid thriller Macabre, while veteran Antonio Margheritti adapted to the gore genre era with the cannibalistic film Cannibals in the Streets. The retrospective, dedicated to American fantastic films from the 1940s and 1950s, made it possible to rediscover movies like Cat People, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and The Thing from Another World. All of them were remade between the late 1970s and early 1980s. Chronicles of the time highlighted the thunderous applause that audiences showered on the most gruesome scenes in films like Mother's Day.
