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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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My film @woodlandsdarkanddaysbewitched will have i

My film @woodlandsdarkanddaysbewitched will have its US West Coast Premiere at Los Angeles’ @beyondfest which runs Sept 29-Oct 11, 2021. The film plays on Saturday Oct 2 at 1:30pm at the Los Feliz 3 Theatre and is presented by @cinematicvoid and is FREE thanks to sponsors at @shudder . PLUS! It will be followed by the World Premiere of @severinfilms new restoration of Aussie folk horror film ALISON’S BIRTHDAY at 5pm. More details at beyondfest.com

From the program notes:

“What cult film queen Kier-La Janisse did for women and mental health in her pioneering book House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films she does again in WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED for folk horror: she turns everything we think we knew about this subject on its head, and makes us smarter and more engaged fans of these enduring, extraordinary films.

Winning the SXSW Audience Award, Janisse is our welcoming yet fearless tour guide as she takes on a three-hour tour into the writhing, historical guts of a category of horror cinema that spans the cerebral and visceral, the spiritual and the deeply, darkly, and frequently blissfully profane.” - Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

(Image from MESSIAH OF EVIL)

#folkhorror #woodlandsdarkanddaysbewitched #severinfilms #alisonsbirthday #beyondfest

Ok this movie just got weird KILL IT AND LEAVE TH

Ok this movie just got weird
KILL IT AND LEAVE THIS TOWN (Mariusz Wilczynski, 2020)
#killitandleavethistown #polishfilm #polishanimation

This is a BIG one for me. @woodlandsdarkanddaysbew

This is a BIG one for me. @woodlandsdarkanddaysbewitched is playing at @viffest !! Vancouver is where everything started for me, my fanzine, my first film festival, my years of working at @black_dog_video , my first paid writing gigs. It means a lot to now have a film of my own playing on a screen there. There's a live screening Friday Oct 8th at @riotheatre and if you are anywhere in BC you can catch it as part of their virtual lineup from Oct 1-11. Details and tix at viff.org
#folkhorror #woodlandsdarkanddaysbewitched #viff2021

It's official! Not only will @woodlandsdarkanddays

It's official! Not only will @woodlandsdarkanddaysbewitched have its Spanish Premiere at the illustrious @sitgesfestival this October, but the featurette I made with Don Adams for @severinfilms Quinqui set, BLOOD IN THE STREETS: THE QUINQUI FILM PHENOMENON will be playing in their Brigadoon section!
#quinqui #quinquifilms #sitgesfilmfestival #brigadoon

Insane! The first flip-through of the WARPED & FAD

Insane! The first flip-through of the WARPED & FADED book, written by @larsnilsenzzz and edited/art-directed by me, with essays by guest contributors Stephen Thrower, Tim Lucas, @katellinger , @honeycuttheidi , PETE Tombs, Chris Poggiali, Mike Malloy, @robinbougieman , Maitland McDonagh, @rodneydp , @notforhumanz @bryanconnollywon and featuring eye-popping design by @lukeinsect (who also designed my folk horror box set). Now available for pre-order @mondonews https://mondoshop.com/products/warped-and-faded-weird-wednesday-and-the-birth-of-the-american-genre-film-archive
If you are an exhibitor or film festival and would like to host a book launch for this amazing tome, get in touch! You’ll have hundreds of films to choose from!
(📼: Lars Nilsen)

#warpedandfaded #weirdwednesday #agfa #americangenrefilmaechive #dontmesswithmywednesday #moviebooks #snakey

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Tomorrow (Sun Aug 29) at 10am, my film @woodlandsd

Tomorrow (Sun Aug 29) at 10am, my film @woodlandsdarkanddaysbewitched has its UK premiere at London's @frightfestuk on Disco Screen 2. I'm very nervous! Studies in folk horror have a longer documented history in the UK than elsewhere and so this could be my toughest audience. Here's me with my support animal while I await the response.

(Photo taken by Sean Hogan at BFI Southbank years ago (as you can tell by the fact that my hair's not white), when Lawrence Gordon Clark had brought one of his ASH TREE critters to a screening!)

#folkhorror #woodlandsdarkanddaysbewitched #theashtree #lawrencegordonclark #aghoststoryforchristmas

Big news! @slashfilmfest in Vienna will host the f

Big news! @slashfilmfest in Vienna will host the first major retrospective inspired by Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched , Sept 23-Oct 3. They’ll be screening about 15 films including such ultra-rarities as the Belarusian SAVAGE HUNT OF KING STAKH and of course @severinfilms new 4K restoration of EYES OF FIRE. See slashfilmfestival.com or woodlandsdarkanddaysbewitched.com for details.
#folkhorror #woodlandsdarkanddaysbewitched #slashfilmfestival #severinfilms #savagehuntofkingstakh #eyesoffire

Repost from @severinfilms - @WoodlandsDarkAndDaysB

Repost from @severinfilms - @WoodlandsDarkAndDaysBewitched has won Best Documentary at @FantasiaFestival! Thanks to everyone at the fest and all who voted!

#SeverinFilms #FolkHorror #KierLaJanisse #WoodlandsDarkAndDaysBewitched

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