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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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Doing some animation tests today at @winnipegfilm

Doing some animation tests today at @winnipegfilm with @baroque.as.a.joke for a short film we hope can come together in the next year.
#juliagrfrorer #houseofpsychoticwomen

Found a couple test pressings of the cardboard rec

Found a couple test pressings of the cardboard record that came with the first edition of House of Psychotic Women - with Charles Bernstein's theme from PIGS!

Get the 10th anniversary expanded edition from @fabpress now at fab press.com - this time with a bonus cd of me reading The Yellow Wallpaper w/ original score by @timothyfife

#houseofpsychoticwomen #fabpress

I've been sitting on this news for a while and can

I've been sitting on this news for a while and can finally share it - I'm doing a UK tour with House of Psychotic Women from Oct 29-Nov 5th courtesy of @matchbox_cineclub and the @britishfilminstitute 's "In Dreams Are Monsters" horror season! It'll be a whirlwhind, with less than 24 hours in most places, starting at Weird Weekend in Glasgow, then over to Edinburgh for an event that reunites me with my beloved friend Adele Hartley and her Dead by Dawn Film Festival then down through Nottingham, Manchester, Sheffield, Cardiff (WALES for the first time!) then London where I am unbelievably honored to be hosted at BFI Southbank itself thanks to a collab with @annabdemented of @thefinalgirlsuk . It's crazy to me the amount of work that Sean and Megan at Matchbox Cine went through to make this happen, not the least of which was collaborating with @mondomacabrousa to present the World Premiere of the new restoration of an EXTREMELY obscure but amazing film that's featured in my book - Claude D'Anna's TROMPE L'OEIL - never officially released on ANY format, ANYWHERE! (the producer was quite freaked out that I'd even seen it!) Each stop is in collaboration with a local festival - I'll post about them when they make their individual announcements - and I'll have books, as well as a limited amount of @severinfilms HOPW box sets, and maybe even copies of WARPED & FADED (the book @larsnilsenzzz wrote and I edited) if we can swing the overseas shipping. And perhaps most heartfelt of all, Matchbox even allowed my international flight to land me in Amsterdam so that I could spend two days eating my favourite food at @febo.nl before I come to the UK! (that's right, of this whole tour, I'll be spending the most consecutive time at FEBO!!)

#matchboxcineclub #indreamsaremonsters #houseofpsychoticwomen #febo

Found this old pic. 22 years ago, on a train in th

Found this old pic. 22 years ago, on a train in the Czech Republic.

HENRY SILVA!!! 💔There was a time when almost ev

HENRY SILVA!!! 💔There was a time when almost every day was a SILVA SCREEN day for me and @the_rita_lake_shark_hn . I'll never forget the moment that won me over in THE BOSS when Antonia Santilli says "You'll tell me when you're sick of me, huh?" and Silva says, "I'm sick of you NOW!!"
I tried for over a year to reach him for an event at the Alamo when I worked there. Eventually I gave up and then one day the phone rang. I picked it up and the familiar voice on the other end said, "I AM HENRY SILVA!" He was so much friendlier and goofier than I could have imagined, and when I asked him to come to a screening of THE BOSS he asked eagerly, "Will Fernando Di Leo be there?" and I had to be the one to tell him that Fernando Di Leo was dead!! And now one of the screen's all time greatest tuff guys has gone to join him. RIP. 🖤🖤🖤

#henrysilva

It's official - I'll be back at the @sitgesfestiva

It's official - I'll be back at the @sitgesfestival talking about House of Psychotic Women and hopefully catching up with whatever film friends happen to be there! I'll be there Oct 6-10 - before I make a long-awaited trip back to LA (more on that in a separate post!)

#houseofpsychoticwomen #sitgesfilmfestival #fabpress

Sept 21-Oct 2, 2022 at @wfgcinematheque A series

Sept 21-Oct 2, 2022 at @wfgcinematheque
A series curated by @olivianorquay
I'll be there Friday Sept 23 & Sat Sept 24 to intro films
Hope to see all my winnipeg people. Will the ex-boyfriend dare to show up? We'll see.

#houseofpsychoticwomen #winnipegfilmgroup #davebarbercinematheque

I found this old CD wallet in my stuff from storag

I found this old CD wallet in my stuff from storage and Zacherley exercised her right to try sitting on everything at least once

Next up: @wfgcinematheque ! Programmer @olivianorq

Next up: @wfgcinematheque ! Programmer @olivianorquay has curated a sampler series from my book HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN, running Sept 21-Oct 2 - and I'll be there in person on Sept 23 & 24 to introduce Joseph Losey's SECRET CEREMONY and @severinfilms 4k restoration of IDENTIKIT - come by and get the new limited edition of the book while supplies last

#houseofpsychoticwomen #winnipegfilmgroup

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