Madrid writer and film critic Jesús Palacios will receive the Isla Calavera 2022 Award for the dissemination of the fantastic. Author of more than twenty books on cinema, literature, esotericism and popular culture, he has become a benchmark of the genre.
A regular contributor to radio and television programs, fanzines, magazines and film festivals, he is a consultant for the publishing house Valdemar, with which he has published 'Satan in Hollywood' (1997) and 'Hollywood maldito' (2010), as well as coordinating anthologies of horror stories, including 'TerrorVision. Stories that inspired modern horror cinema' (2018).
Lecturer at universities and other cultural spaces, with the publishing house Satori he has coordinated the book 'Eroguro. Horror and eroticism in Japanese popular culture' (2018) and with Hermenaute 'Folk Horror: the ancestral in fantastic cinema', among many others.
In previous editions this recognition has gone to Diego López-Fernández, documentary filmmaker, author of [REC] Terror without pause (which we will be able to see this year at Isla Calavera) or The Lady of the FantasticThe filmmaker and essayist Víctor Matellano, author of the documentary film The Valley of Concavenator (also in the Isla Calavera 2022 program); or the film critic Desirée de Fez.
This award is in addition to those already announced for John Landis, who will receive the Honorary Skull Island Award in recognition of his career as a master of fantastic cinema, with titles such as An American Werewolf in London (1981) or the mythical video clip Thriller (1983) by Michael Jackson; and for Oscar-nominated costume designer Deborah Nadoolman, to whom we owe the memorable costumes for Indiana Jones; as well as honorary awards for Sarah Douglas and Lamberto Bava, and the S. S. Venture Award for Canarian talent for Jonay Bacallado.
