AUTHORS

Jacinto Molina, also known as PAUL NASCHY, studied in Madrid, and took his degree in exact sciences. He took arquitecural studies too. He is an elite sportsman, in weight-lifting, and has won the spanish championship several times. He works as draftman and illustrator (making record company covers for authors as Elvis Presley, Bill Halley or Frank Laine in Spain) and he wrote many horror novels.

His career as director and producer starts in 1966, going through all the fields of seventh art.

In 1968, he scripts and stars in the film The Mark of the Wolf Man (La Marca del Hombre Lobo), which starts the phenomenon of Fantastic films in Spain. He carries on with other cult films as Walpurgis Night also named as The Werewolf Vs. The Vampire Woman, Werewolf's Shadow (La Noche de Walpurgis), The Monsters of Terror (Los Monstruos del Terror), The Hunchbacked of The Morgue also named The Rue Morgue Massacres (El Jorobado de la Morgue), The Great Love of Count Dracula (El Gran Amor del Conde Drácula), or Horror Rises From the Tomb (El Gran Espanto Surge de la Tumba). Like this, beyond hundred titles; with other films as meaningful as The Walker (El Caminante), Naked Madrid (Madrid al Desnudo), Red Light (Disco Rojo), My Friend the Vagabond (Mi Amigo el Vagabundo), or House of Psychotic Women (Los Ojos Azules de la Muñeca Rota).

Working for the Japanese industry, Naschy starts a long stage as documentarist, making works like The Prado Museum (El Museo del Prado), The Altamira Caves (Las Cuevas de Altamira), The Royal Palace of Madrid (El Palacio Real de Madrid), or The Mask of Juyo (La Máscara de Juyo). And later he was appointed as workers' representative in Spain of the Japanese NHK, and he produces TV series and films for Japan. In 1982, The Prado Museum is awarded as the best documentary film of the year in Tokio.

Paul Naschy came back to Spain and takes up again his career, and he is prize-winning and gets many tributes, also abroad. In where it is worth pointing out the Karl Laemmle in Washington, in 2001 the Gold Medal of Fine Arts, and the prestigious “Time Machine” awarded by the Sitges Festival.

Among  his latest films it is fitting to point out Once Upon Another Time 2000 (Érase Otra Vez), Spanish TV series Desenlace, School Killer (2001), Octavia (2002), Mucha Sangre (2002), Rojo Sangre (2003), and his last production, Empusa (2007), with his own script, and directed by himself.

JAVIER TRUJILLO (1962, Madrid) has drawn always. In age of 17 he joins in the studio of draw and paint of D, Amadeo Roca. Next year he study in Villalar studio, where he get develop and perfection of his paint and stain techniques. In 1983 starts to works as publicity illustrator in M.V.F.& Asociados, developing there a great use of the airbrush. From 1988 he set on his own studio as illustrator and freelance, and collaborate with design studios, publicity agencies, and the field of publishing house design.  In 2005 his career made a turn and he gets direction to the comic field. In 2006 he’s nominated as newcomer award for Expocomic in Madrid cause his work on The Mith of Asturdeva (Los Mitos de Asturdeva). This year meets Paul Naschy, and begins a good and fruitful artistic collaboration, in where Waldemar Daninsky, The Returns of the Werewolf (El Retorno del Hombre Lobo) is created. It is a comic adaptation of the same named film, which was written, directed and starring by the same Naschy  in 1980. Also in 2007 Trujillo collaborates with Paul Naschy again in his new film, Empusa, making the promotional poster and other artistic materials for the film. 

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