Kier-La Janisse

No idea about streaming etc but it did screen for Spanish audiences at Sitges!

1000 Women in Horror | Official Trailer | Shudder YouTube video by Shudder

Of course @kierlajanisse.bsky.social and @horrornonna.com are part of this documentary, premiering March 20 on Shudder. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2zL...

In Cornwall last fall for a *soon-to-be-announced* Spectacular Optical project, we stopped by the hotel from Nicolas Roeg's 1990 adaptation of THE WITCHES

Holy moly, I’ve been clamoring for this *exact* release since Fantasia. Still certain it’ll be a lethal experience.

A24 Will Release ‘Undertone’ in the Best-Sounding Venues You Can Imagine Exclusive: A24 will release Ian Tuason's horror film 'Undertone' in Dolby Cinema at early screenings on March 9.

Love to see Canadian indie film getting this kind of theatrical attention from their distributor

Donna Davies' acclaimed doc of @horrornonna.com 's 1000 Women in Horror comes to @shudder.com next month!

How is my name in the press release and yours isn't?? Lol

Bill Fay :: From The Bottom Of An Old Grandfather Clock (A Collection Of Demos And Outtakes 1966-1970)

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Dead Oceans quietly re-released From the Bottom of an Old Grandfather Clock last December—a twenty-five-track journey through Bill Fay’s back pages...

An early crush and the inspiration for my own teenage funeral home escapades
RIP Bud Cort 🖤

Just Announced! THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM will have its German Premiere at @finalgirlsberlin.bsky.social on March 7th - details on their website here: www.finalgirlsberlin.com/2026/shorts8

The Year’s First Must-Own Physical Media Release: A Crash Course in Spanish Genre Movies After Franco 'Exorcismo: Defying a Dictator & Raising Hell in Post-Franco Spain' showcases sex and violence films made in response to the repressive Franco regime.

"The Year's First Must-Own Physical Media Release" - Congrats to @severinfilms.bsky.social on their EXORCISMO box set getting some much-deserved ink in @indiewire.com www.indiewire.com/features/com...

Tons of rare stuff on this list!!

Image of small plane plummeting toward the ground against a blue sky with the text "FALLING FROM THE SKY: ACCIDENT AS TESTIMONIAL DOCUMENTARY"

Now live on spectacularoptical.com - the latest instalment of @stephenbroomer.bsky.social 's video essay series on Canadian classics, hits and misfits, NORTHERN LIGHT - this time focused on Martin Duckworth and Pat Crawley’s ACCIDENT (1973).

I'm mega excited to announce our Spring 2026 Semester, and a shiny new website!
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Check out our insanely cool new season, and grab your passes!

Interesting her latest work is @kierlajanisse.bsky.social's The Occupant of the Room, because Hetty Wainthropp was created by John Bowen and his lover David Cook, and there's at least two folk horror eps, one called Widdershins.
This scene has A Photograph vibes, but it is a photograph.

This happened in October but @celluloidscreams.bsky.social have just released official festival photos, I was lucky enough to introduce Uber cool @kierlajanisse.bsky.social and her excellent ghost story film THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM - excited to see what this year brings! #folkhorror #festivals

Cover of Canadian Journal of Film and Media Studies special issue depicting 2 images from Crawley Films, one of a person looking through a camera, the other a tidy woman in pearls speaking, likely from a social guidance film

Photo of table of contents from new Crawley Films issue of Canadian Journal of Film and Media Studies

Very excited about the CJFMS new special issue dedicated to Crawley Films!! I'm a classroom/industrial/sponsored film nut (thanks in large part to the old live touring shows of AVGeeks, Dennis Nyback and the like) and I'm frequently impressed by the quality of writing and research in this journal.

Canadian film buff Kier-La Janisse adds director to her lengthy list of duties nationalpost.com/entertainmen...

THE GREAT NOCTURNAL by Jean Ray, 160 BLACK WOMEN IN HORROR by Sumiko Saulson, REENA VIRK: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON A CANADIAN MURDER edited by Mythili Rajiva + Sheila Batacharya, and NUCLEAR WAR IN THE UK by Taras Young.

Today's book mail

A woman with white hair (Kier-La Janisse) and a man with a moustache (Don McKellar), both wearing glasses, smile on stage doing a Q+A.

A man (Don McKellar) gestures while a woman (the cinema's programmer Olivia) looks on attentively

A Man (Don McKellar) makes a joke onstage, flanked by two women, director Kier-La Janisse and Cinematheque film programmer Olivia Norquay.

Thanks again to the Winnipeg Film Group for hosting me + Don McKellar for a screening of THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM before David Gregory's THEATRE OF HORRORS (both from @severinfilms.bsky.social), we had a ton of fun, arrived in the middle of a blizzard, and even stayed in a haunted hotel!

A special short film gets some love from @stephenbroomer.bsky.social in this month's NORTHERN LIGHT. I think I first saw it projected onto a wall on Winnipeg's Main Street, where it is set.

Happy New Year everyone! Here's my list of fave new films of 2025:
AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE
INVENTION
IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU
LEVERS
THE ICE TOWER
REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND
GOOD BOY
MOTHER OF FLIES
CAMP
BRING HER BACK

I tried to keep the animation in THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM a secret for a long time, but now that it's out I want to give a massive shout-out to my animator Anna Malina Zemlianski! Follow her brilliant work at www.annamalina.com Here's an outtake from the animated sequence.

Tomorrow in Kansas City! The last screening of my film for the season ❄️

I'm reading Dhalgren in my book club right now

Thank you!!

Some of you may remember MAINSTREET SOLDIER from @severinfilms.bsky.social OUT OF THE BLUE disc because it's by OOTB's original director Leonard Yakir (whose creative influence, I would argue, is still very much present in the finished film). New ep of video essay series Northern Light drops Jan 1

ROGER IS A SERIAL KILLER Makes Your Holiday Family Anxiety Seem Quaint Christmas, family strife, and horror: Don Swaynos’ ROGER IS A SERIAL KILLER has it all (and Barbara Crampton too!) Watch the new short now on FANGORIA.com.

Watch the delightful short ROGER IS A SERIAL KILLER featuring @barbaracrampton.bsky.social over at @fangoria.bsky.social if you need a quick holiday pick-me-up. www.fangoria.com/roger-is-a-s...

Thank you!!

So this happened last night! I wasn't interviewed by Ted Koppel but I did appear on ABC's NIGHTLINE briefly for a holiday horror segment on Christmas Eve, which included a mention of my @severinfilms.bsky.social series THE HAUNTED SEASON on @shudder.com ! See here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxrh...