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KIER-LA JANISSE is an author, critic, film programmer, podcaster, publisher and producer with an emphasis on genre cinema.

Video Watchdog’s Tim Lucas referred to her book House of Psychotic Women as one of the 10 “most vital” horror film books of all time, and Ian MacAllister-McDonald of the LA Review of Books called it “the next step in genre theory, as well as the most frightening and heart-rending memoir I’ve read in years.”

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I found this old pic of some of my vhs tapes - peo

I found this old pic of some of my vhs tapes - people think I must have some massive movie collection with every special edition but in fact most of what I keep are the bootlegs!! Or just weird things I think none of my other friends would collect. Some of these are old screeners from Fantasia when they use to give out the press screeners on VHS! Others have the handwriting of my friend Sam McKinlay (aka @the_rita_lake_shark_hn ) Even Buddy G’s THE UNSCARRED is there. Did that ever come out??
#vhs #bootlegs

I have wanted this poster for years and finally go

I have wanted this poster for years and finally got it for myself as an Xmas present this year. It was kind of a comedy that I would keep checking back with Wim at @movie_ink._amsterdam to see if he still had it, and thankfully when I was ready, it was still there waiting for me. I have a crazy love for Dick Maas’ AMSTERDAMNED (I have the German poster for it too) and one of my greatest memories is when Barend de Voogd of @schokkendnieuws arranged for me to go on a boat trip through the canals of Amsterdam revisiting 40 (!) locations from the film - with Dick Maas himself! And it was Dick’s birthday! And when I asked him why he would spend his birthday with a bunch of strangers he said “what else is there to do on a birthday?”
Anyways now that my folk horror doc is about to premiere my big dream was for it to play Amsterdam so that I could stay in the killer’s basement apartment (which was an Airbnb last I checked) and eat at FEBO 6 times a day (I’m not joking, @febo.nl croquettes are my favourite food)- and so I’m really hoping there’s still a chance for that to happen, if the COVID thing can be licked anytime soon.
#amsterdamned #dickmaas #febo #movieinkamsterdam #czechposter #dutchhorror #dutchgiallo

For Episode 2 of my podcast A SONG FROM THE HEART

For Episode 2 of my podcast A SONG FROM THE HEART BEATS THE DEVIL EVERY TIME I talk to Carol Lynn Pearson, who adapted Jean Mizer’s classic short story CIPHER IN THE SNOW into the 1974 Mormon educational film of the same name. This one has some surprises (well, they were surprises to me) so I’d suggest going in blind. Hear it via my website (link in bio) or on Podbean, Stitcher, Spotify, Apple podcasts etc
#asongfromtheheartbeatsthedevileverytime #mormoncinema

I’ll never be a Valentine, but for those of you

I’ll never be a Valentine, but for those of you who are one, have one, or believe in that stuff, here’s one for you. The ‘Possession’ moment in Buddy Giovinazzo’s ‘I Love You’ segment of THE THEATRE BIZARRE (@severinfilms 2011)
#buddygiovinazzo #bloodyvalentine #vd #theatrebizarre #severinfilms

Ready for the most exciting news of my life? I mad

Ready for the most exciting news of my life? I made a film. And it got into #sxsw !! WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED: A HISTORY OF FOLK HORROR will be making its world premiere at @sxsw next month as part of the Midnighters section, alongside many amazing colleagues’ new films. Congrats and thank you to everyone who made this film a reality and raised it up to a level where it could score a premiere like this. Especially my co-producers @w1nn1th (who also edited the film along with @actorsupset ) and David Gregory at @severinfilms, @weegee2000 and @ladyphibes and the 30+ camera people who helped us get all our interviews. (And @rachellenkowski who shot a bunch of our creepy forest footage as seen above!) It’s gonna be a trip to finally share it with you all!
#folkhorror #woodlandsdarkanddaysbewitched

Thanks to whoever posted about this which prompted

Thanks to whoever posted about this which prompted me to buy it - all original writings from the 60s on the burgeoning expanded cinema movement in Japan, translated to English for the first time.
Available from Archive Books and @collabjapanfilm
#expandedcinema #intermedia #experimentalfilm #japanesepopart

Another @ashley.hohman original #overtheedge #ter

Another @ashley.hohman original
#overtheedge #terminalclassic

Just a Saturday morning picture of Todd Rundgren 🖤

Here’s an incredible performance from Hal Holbro

Here’s an incredible performance from Hal Holbrook that doesn’t get talked about enough. NATURAL ENEMIES (1979). One day a man wakes up and decides he’s going to kill his family and then himself. This is the story of that day.
#riphalholbrook #naturalenemies

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