![]() (Our own Josh Hurtado broke the news of the new edition here.) These appearances aren’t merely book launches for their areas, but most often accompany talks and rare screenings of films featuring women on the verge in genre films.įor instance, at Fantasia this year, we were treated to showings of films like the psychosexual 70s Elizabeth Taylor romp Identikit the Polish vampire 80s spree I Like Bats Italian folk horror Il Demonio, which no doubt influenced a certain sequence in The Exorcist the weirdo giallo Footprints and not-for-everyone body horror In My Skin. Fantasia presented her with the film festival’s Canadian Trailblazer Award this past summer.Ĭurrently, she’s touring North America with the updated, tenth anniversary of her groundbreaking book, House of Psychotic Women via FAB Press. You can also find it currently streaming on Shudder. Her excellent folk horror doc Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, available via Severin Films’s website. ![]() ![]() ![]() She founded the press Spectacular Optical Publications, as well as the internationally known The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. Kier-La Janisse has long been a fixture in the genre film world, as a programmer, publisher, writer, film scholar, and more. ![]()
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