Vicente Rodríguez Ortega is Tenure-Track Professor at Universidad Carlos III (Madrid) and member of the TECMERIN research group and Instituto Universitario del Cine Español-UC3M. He is the co-editor of Contemporary Spanish Cinema & Genre and has written over 20 academic articles and book chapters. He is the founding editor of Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays.

Rubén Romero Santos is Junior Lecturer at Universidad Carlos III (Madrid) and member of the TECMERIN research group and Instituto Universitario del Cine Español-UC3M. He is the author of El detective mutante (2020) and Barcelona en 12 películas (2022). He has been working as a film critic for almost two decades.

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Spanish Horror in the 21st Century

2. Early 2000s: Industrial Dynamics, Production Trends & Transnationalization

3. [Rec]: An International Franchise

4. Horror & Genre Hybridization

5. Horror & Gender

6. Horror & The Past

7. Horror & Streaming

8. Conclusions