Kier-La Janisse
@kierlajanisse.bsky.social
Author, House of Psychotic Women / Cockfight Writer/Director/Producer, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched / The Haunted Season Acquisitions/Producer @severinfilms.bsky.social Owner @spectacularoptical.bsky.social https://www.kier-lajanisse.com
This "documentary on folk horror’s origins, attributes and effects is a dizzyingly exhaustive, if exploratory, country trip": @kierlajanisse.bsky.social's WOODLANDS DARK & DAYS BEWITCHED: A HISTORY OF FOLK HORROR (2021) is on BloodStream TV from today. projectedfigures.com/2021/07/31/w...
Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021) at Fantasia - Projected Figures
Kier-La Janisse's doc WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED: A HISTORY OF FOLK HORROR is a dizzyingly exhaustive, if exploratory, country trip
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Posted this on IG and bears repeating here - @raynewman.bsky.social 's been carving out the "Brutalist ghost story" microgenre for the last several years so just wanted to draw attention to these great anthologies.
CHASING MIRRORS THROUGH A HAZE - new episode of my radio show PHONOGRAPHY out tomorrow on Pender Radio - Listen at penderradio.ca Sundays 3-4pm pacific (6-7pm eastern)
Very cool to see the new @themountaingoats.bsky.social album was recorded at Sear Sound, home of exploitation film legend Roberta Findlay!
HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN News from @fabpress.bsky.social ! The hardcover edition is back in stock, including the bonus CD of me reading "The Yellow Wallpaper" set to an original score by Timothy Fife ! Get it at www.fabpress.com/hopw-expande...
My radio show starts at 3pm pacific / 6pm eastern! Tune in to penderradio.ca to hear me attempt the BOSS RADIO format, inspired by my hometown station CKLW (but also KHJ in LA, home to The Real Don Steele) I'm a rambler so this was tough to keep all short + sweet and timed to the CKLW hot clock!
Robert Downey’s Putney Swope opened at the Towne Cinema in Toronto on January 9, 1970. Plays today as a launch event for the incredible new book Truth and Soul: A Robert Downey Sr. Reader, edited by @kierlajanisse.bsky.social & Clint Enns & featuring the work of some extremely talented folk.
Been VERY hard keeping news of this Jodo box under wraps, but its now on pre-order from old mates at Umbie. Includes critical extras from @joshnelsonfilm.bsky.social @bjcolangelo.bsky.social @sabinastent.bsky.social @mdconterio.bsky.social + more, and my brand new video essay on Santa Sangre!
Alejandro Jodorowsky Collector’s Edition
Across these films, sacred and profane imagery collide in dazzling tableaux; myths are broken apart and reassembled; and every frame pulses with the director’s relentless pursuit of artistic and spiri...
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This was great fun!! Thanks so much for having me on the show @www.johnbleasdale.com !!
John Bleasdale@www.johnbleasdale.com · last mo.New episode of Writers on Film features Kier-La Janisse on Monte Hellman’s Cockfighter and The House of Psychotic Women @kierlajanisse.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...
THIS SATURDAY in TORONTO! Sat. Aug 1, 3:00pm at Revue Cinema - Robert Downey Sr.'s 1969 advertising satire PUTNEY SWOPE - Toronto launch for our book TRUTH & SOUL: A ROBERT DOWNEY SR. READER Editors @kierlajanisse.bsky.social & Clint Enns in person w/ contributors @stephenbroomer.bsky.social & more
Last day of the @severinfilms.bsky.social table at @fantasiafestival.com ! All remaining items discounted as we get ready to pack up! Open 1pm-9pm (or whenever it's all gone!)
Today my radio show PHONOGRAPHY is coming at you from the @fantasiafestival.com in Montreal, so we're doing a show entirely devoted to cult film soundtracks! Tune in 3-4pm PDT (6-7pm EDT) at Pender Radio penderradio.ca
The @severinfilms.bsky.social table is open for business at @fantasiafestival.com ! 1pm-9pm daily through Tuesday July 28 (while supplies last!) Come see Taylor of @screamandwrithe.bsky.social working the table weekdays and underground comix legend Rick Trembles on Sat/Sun!
TODAY! Come meet these crazy kids Peter Hengl and Lola Basara (AND actor Cornelius Obonya!!) at the World Premiere of their film THE FATED HOUR, commissioned and EP'd by @severinfilms.bsky.social ! Plays @fantasiafestival.com at 3:45pm in the De Seve theatre, with 4K restoration of STUDIO Q!
FRIDAY at @lalumierecollective in MTL! Robert Downey Sr's CHAFED ELBOWS introduced by Clint Enns and @kierlajanisse.bsky.social editors of the new book TRUTH & SOUL: A ROBERT DOWNEY SR. READER - Books available at the screening for $30 CAD (cash/card) Info: lalumierecollective.org/2026/robert-...
Only two more days til the World Premiere of THE FATED HOUR! The new gothic short from Peter Hengl (FAMILY DINNER) based on Friedrich Laun's story "The Relationship with the Spirit World" EP'd by me and @severinfilms.bsky.social it screens at @fantasiafestival.com Thurs July 23 @3:45pm w/ STUDIO Q!
Starts TOMORROW! I'm en route to Montreal AS WE SPEAK!
Spectacular Optical Media@spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 2mo agoMONTREAL! Three nights of Robert Downey Sr. coming your way this month with TRUTH & SOUL: A ROBERT DOWNEY SR. READER co-editors @kierlajanisse.bsky.social and Clint Enns in person to intro each screening w/ books on hand - see details on our website spectacularoptical.com
TORONTO! See you Sat. Aug 1 at the @vinsyn.bsky.social store w/ blu ray launch for A YEAR IN A FIELD, then across the street at The Revue for PUTNEY SWOPE w/ our book TRUTH & SOUL: A ROBERT DOWNEY SR. READER details on spectacularoptical.com
THIS WEEK @severinfilms.bsky.social launches two films (World Premieres of THE FATED HOUR and STUDIO Q) and a boardgame at @fantasiafestival.com in Montreal as well as having a merch table on site!! Register a team for the boardgame here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/street-war...
This Sunday on PHONOGRAPHY - a Tribute to the book LOST IN THE GROOVES (2004) edited by Kim Cooper + David Smay This book was responsible for me encountering some of my now-favourite records for the first time. Hear them Sunday 3-4pm pacific time at penderradio.ca
Our buddy @bjcolangelo.bsky.social needs a little help from her friends (and I'm a bully). BJ needs what is, essentially, a full mouth replacement thanks to cancer radiation. We can't eliminate the dental trauma, but we can help with the life-altering debt. www.gofundme.com/f/bj-needs-a...
Donate to BJ Needs A New Mouth (Keep Her Yappin'), organized by Amelia Emberwing
If you're reading this, you're not new to the fact that eventually the "pass … Amelia Emberwing needs your support for BJ Needs A New Mouth (Keep Her Yappin')
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Only 2hrs left to vote in the @fangoria.bsky.social #ChainsawAwards ! (There's no short film category or I'm sure THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM would have been nominated... lol) Make your voice heard at fangoria.com/votenow/
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I voted! Now it's your turn. #ChainsawAwards
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RADIO REVOLUTION: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BIG 8 is a movie I love dearly about CKLW, the 50,000-watt border radio station that once ruled the airwaves. I'm screening it as a fundraiser for Pender Radio (who host my weekly show) on Aug 7th - details here: spectacularoptical.com/events/radio...
MONTREAL! Three nights of Robert Downey Sr. coming your way this month with TRUTH & SOUL: A ROBERT DOWNEY SR. READER co-editors @kierlajanisse.bsky.social and Clint Enns in person to intro each screening w/ books on hand - see details on our website spectacularoptical.com
My favourite Sam Neil story. In Event Horizon he requested that the Aboriginal flag replace the Union Jack on his uniform’s Australia flag of the future. One of the good guys. Sad news to start the day. May he rest in peace.
He was an early crush as one of my first screen devils in THE FINAL CONFLICT. But of course it was POSSESSION that stapled him to my heart forever. That said, I'll perhaps most cherish him in his last role, showing off his ducks on Instagram. 🖤 RIP Sam Neill 1947-2026
Today on my radio show PHONOGRAPHY it's all music performed, and in some case written by, KIDS! There will be some bubblegum, funk, ghostly children's choirs, songs of heartache and abandonment... And it's all on Pender Radio Sunday 3-4pm pacific (6-7pm eastern) - tune in at penderradio.ca
My beautiful first blu ray has arrived! THANK YOU to everyone who has bought a blu ray - if you'll be at @fantasiafestival.com come by the @severinfilms.bsky.social table to get a copy in person! Or you can get it online from severinfilms.com (North America) or spectacularoptical.com (Canada only)
