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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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Thank you so much to @astraleyez for this perfect

Thank you so much to @astraleyez for this perfect gift of a weirdo Pan Am Airlines LP with songs like "Get to Hell Out of Here"
Thank you for remembering that I love love love vintage airline ephemera 🖤✈

I see your Thanksgiving BLOOD RAGE posts and I rai

I see your Thanksgiving BLOOD RAGE posts and I raise you some pics from my visit to the asylum and Shadow Woods Apartments this summer

Today I am thankful for my friend Adele sending me

Today I am thankful for my friend Adele sending me a boxful of stuff I've had stored in her garage in Scotland since 2014! How I have missed all those @av.geeks DVDs...
And I completely forgot that Peter Wyngarde signed my copy of @christopherfrayling 's book on The Innocents!! What a magical event that book launch was 🖤

Been waiting for this announcement! I'll be in Tor

Been waiting for this announcement! I'll be in Toronto Dec 28th to present @mondomacabrousa 's beautiful new restoration of Claude D'Anna's TROMPE L'OEIL, a luscious mystery starring Laure Deschanel and Max Von Sydow, which features in the expanded edition of my book HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN. This will function as my official Toronto book launch as part of TIFF Midnight Madness" monthly screening series programmed by Liane Cunje and @peterkapow

I got to see the world premiere of the restoration at @matchbox_cineclub 's Weird Weekend a month ago and it is GORGEOUS! The colors will melt your eyeballs - every shot looks like a painting.

We'll have books at the screening but I believe you can also get the book BEFORE xmas at @tiff_net bookstore if you want one for under the tree, and then bring it to the screening and I'll sign it!

#tiffmidnightmadness #midnightmadness #trompeloeil #claudedanna #houseofpsychoticwomen #mondomacabro #matchboxcineclub #moviebook

Included with @severinfilms upcoming blu ray of vi

Included with @severinfilms upcoming blu ray of video nasty I MISS YOU HUGS AND KISSES is a film I personally lobbied for, director Murray Markowitz' earlier true crime film RECOMMENDATION FOR MERCY (based on the Steven Truscott case) which has its own bounty of extras!
Among the extras I produced, there's a tribute to Donald Pilon on the MISS YOU disc, a dreamy piece with Michele Fansett who appears in both films, commentaries for both by filmmaker/historian Stephen Broomer (whose expertise and enthusiasm for these films is unmatched) and an alternate commentary for RECOMMENDATION with me and director Murray Markowitz.

Available in Severin's Black Friday sale - go to severinfilms.com now to check out the sale procedure in advance if you dont want to MISS out!

#severinfilms #imissyouhugsandkisses #recommendationformercy #teenagepsychokiller
#videonasty

Reposted from @letterboxd : Author and filmmaker @

Reposted from @letterboxd : Author and filmmaker @kierlajanisse joins @yoslimbo and @mitchellbeaupre to discuss the tenth anniversary expanded edition of her book “House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography Of Female Neurosis In Horror And Exploitation Films”, as well as taking a dive through her four favorite films: Over the Edge, Melody, Cockfighter and The Last Wave. 🎙

Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/four-favorites-with-kier-la-janisse-psychotic-women/id1498263634?i=1000586212785

Managed to get a box each of my books KID POWER (2

Managed to get a box each of my books KID POWER (2014) and YULETIDE TERROR (2017) from storage - who wants one?

They're now listed on the Spectacular Optical website (spectacularoptical.ca/store) for sale - and if you order before end of month you should get them in time for xmas 🌲

*UPDATE: Well that was fast but the physical copies of YULETIDE TERROR are already sold out! Still have the PDF versions, and some copies of KID POWER (creepy and cult kids stuff is popular now but when I printed this almost a decade ago no one cared!)

#yuletideterror #christmashorror #kidpower #spectacularoptical

The @severinfilms HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN box set

The @severinfilms HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN box set covered in the new @sightsoundmagazine !!! Just got my hands on it in Sheffield's @showroomworkstation
Bought up every copy they had on the shelf haha

#houseofpsychoticwomen

Forgot to share evidence of my visit to Mow Cop, a

Forgot to share evidence of my visit to Mow Cop, as seen in Alan Garner's RED SHIFT

#redshift #folkhorror #woodlandsdarkanddaysbewitched

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