The Fisher King was the film chosen to kick off the edition. The twenty-fifth anniversary of Star Trek was celebrated with a tribute in Brigadoon and a screening of all its episodes. The overview of Mexican fantastic cinema bore the clever title Mad Mex and allowed a deeper dive into a masked icon: El Santo. John McNaughton, director of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, the previous year’s winner, visited Sitges to present his new work, The Borrower. Todd Haynes arrived at the Festival with Poison.