Kier-La Janisse
@kierlajanisse.bsky.social
Author, House of Psychotic Women / Cockfight
Writer/Director/Producer, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Acquisitions/Producer @severinfilms.bsky.social
Owner @spectacularoptical.bsky.social
https://www.kier-lajanisse.com
Writer/Director/Producer, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Acquisitions/Producer @severinfilms.bsky.social
Owner @spectacularoptical.bsky.social
https://www.kier-lajanisse.com
TONIGHT! A YEAR IN A FIELD screens at Winnipeg's Dave Barber Cinematheque at 5:15pm as part of the Gimme Some Truth Documentary Festival. See the trailer below:
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A YEAR IN A FIELD - Teaser
YouTube video by Spectacular Optical
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November 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
TONIGHT! A YEAR IN A FIELD screens at Winnipeg's Dave Barber Cinematheque at 5:15pm as part of the Gimme Some Truth Documentary Festival. See the trailer below:
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A YEAR IN A FIELD plays at Winnipeg's Gimme Some Truth documentary festival Sunday at 5:15pm. Thanks to @freepking.bsky.social for including it in his article today!
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November 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
A YEAR IN A FIELD plays at Winnipeg's Gimme Some Truth documentary festival Sunday at 5:15pm. Thanks to @freepking.bsky.social for including it in his article today!
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LOS ANGELES!! Catch my film on the big screen supporting David Gregory's latest doc THEATRE OF HORRORS on Dec 1 with David in person and a @severinfilms.bsky.social pop-up shop ! Presented by @cinematicvoid.bsky.social at American Cinematheque LF3. Tix: www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
LOS ANGELES!! Catch my film on the big screen supporting David Gregory's latest doc THEATRE OF HORRORS on Dec 1 with David in person and a @severinfilms.bsky.social pop-up shop ! Presented by @cinematicvoid.bsky.social at American Cinematheque LF3. Tix: www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...
I figure if I'm gonna see @realgdt.bsky.social's FRANKENSTEIN anywhere, this is the theatre to do it in.
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I figure if I'm gonna see @realgdt.bsky.social's FRANKENSTEIN anywhere, this is the theatre to do it in.
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YULETIDE TERROR paperback back in stock - but only 80 copies remain, get them before they're gone!
There are 24 chapters plus a compendium with over 200 capsule reviews, all heavily illustrated in 488 pages!
Make sure to go to the NEW website at spectacularoptical.com
There are 24 chapters plus a compendium with over 200 capsule reviews, all heavily illustrated in 488 pages!
Make sure to go to the NEW website at spectacularoptical.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
YULETIDE TERROR paperback back in stock - but only 80 copies remain, get them before they're gone!
There are 24 chapters plus a compendium with over 200 capsule reviews, all heavily illustrated in 488 pages!
Make sure to go to the NEW website at spectacularoptical.com
There are 24 chapters plus a compendium with over 200 capsule reviews, all heavily illustrated in 488 pages!
Make sure to go to the NEW website at spectacularoptical.com
WEBSITE EXCLUSIVE! Get the latest book I co-edited with Clint Enns, TRUTH & SOUL: A ROBERT DOWNEY SR. READER for a special price through Dec 10th.
23 essays, 332 pages, designed by Luke Insect in full colour!
ONLY AT www.spectacularoptical.com
23 essays, 332 pages, designed by Luke Insect in full colour!
ONLY AT www.spectacularoptical.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
WEBSITE EXCLUSIVE! Get the latest book I co-edited with Clint Enns, TRUTH & SOUL: A ROBERT DOWNEY SR. READER for a special price through Dec 10th.
23 essays, 332 pages, designed by Luke Insect in full colour!
ONLY AT www.spectacularoptical.com
23 essays, 332 pages, designed by Luke Insect in full colour!
ONLY AT www.spectacularoptical.com
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"an Alpine traveler possessed by a previous hotel guest’s dark despair": @kierlajanisse.bsky.social's 'Ghost story for Christmas' THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM (2025) screens 11.40am today at @imaginefff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/10/23/t...
The Occupant of the Room (2025) - Projected Figures
Kier-La Janisse's haunting longish short THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM sees an Alpine traveler possessed by a previous hotel guest's dark despair
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November 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
"an Alpine traveler possessed by a previous hotel guest’s dark despair": @kierlajanisse.bsky.social's 'Ghost story for Christmas' THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM (2025) screens 11.40am today at @imaginefff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/10/23/t...
First day at @imaginefff.bsky.social was wonderful, REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND, THE ICE TOWER (both stunning), a career talk with Ben Wheatley (and even managed to squeeze in an off-festival screening of the DOWNTON movie + eat at FEBO (twice))
November 2, 2025 at 7:31 AM
First day at @imaginefff.bsky.social was wonderful, REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND, THE ICE TOWER (both stunning), a career talk with Ben Wheatley (and even managed to squeeze in an off-festival screening of the DOWNTON movie + eat at FEBO (twice))
Oh no!!! www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...
Peter Watkins obituary: radical British filmmaker behind The War Game and Punishment Park
The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90.
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October 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Oh no!!! www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...
I'm relaunching my little imprint with a new website, new social media presence, and a new varied slate of projects - follow the official bluesky account at @spectacularoptical.bsky.social - books, films, screenings + more!
October 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I'm relaunching my little imprint with a new website, new social media presence, and a new varied slate of projects - follow the official bluesky account at @spectacularoptical.bsky.social - books, films, screenings + more!
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The legendary @kierlajanisse.bsky.social in conversation following her scary, stylish and masterfully suspenseful THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM - mandatory Christmas ghost story viewing from now on ❄️ @celluloidscreams.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The legendary @kierlajanisse.bsky.social in conversation following her scary, stylish and masterfully suspenseful THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM - mandatory Christmas ghost story viewing from now on ❄️ @celluloidscreams.bsky.social
So amazing to see the festival poster for my film blown up and displayed at @celluloidscreams.bsky.social !!!
October 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
So amazing to see the festival poster for my film blown up and displayed at @celluloidscreams.bsky.social !!!
A great review of my film, which plays today at @celluloidscreams.bsky.social in Sheffield followed by a conversation about the Christmas ghost story.
"an Alpine traveler possessed by a previous hotel guest’s dark despair": 'Ghost story for Christmas' THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM (2025) screens 6.45pm today at @celluloidscreams.bsky.social, with writer/director @kierlajanisse.bsky.social in conversation projectedfigures.com/2025/10/23/t...
The Occupant of the Room (2025) - Projected Figures
Kier-La Janisse's haunting longish short THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM sees an Alpine traveler possessed by a previous hotel guest's dark despair
projectedfigures.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
A great review of my film, which plays today at @celluloidscreams.bsky.social in Sheffield followed by a conversation about the Christmas ghost story.
THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM today at @brooklynhorror.bsky.social !!
4pm at the @nitehawkcinema.bsky.social as part of the "Re-Animators" short film program alongside dark new fairytales by Mattie Do, Adam Egypt Mortimer and Justin Benson + Aaron Moorhead !
Don't miss it!!!
4pm at the @nitehawkcinema.bsky.social as part of the "Re-Animators" short film program alongside dark new fairytales by Mattie Do, Adam Egypt Mortimer and Justin Benson + Aaron Moorhead !
Don't miss it!!!
October 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM today at @brooklynhorror.bsky.social !!
4pm at the @nitehawkcinema.bsky.social as part of the "Re-Animators" short film program alongside dark new fairytales by Mattie Do, Adam Egypt Mortimer and Justin Benson + Aaron Moorhead !
Don't miss it!!!
4pm at the @nitehawkcinema.bsky.social as part of the "Re-Animators" short film program alongside dark new fairytales by Mattie Do, Adam Egypt Mortimer and Justin Benson + Aaron Moorhead !
Don't miss it!!!
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The cover of my upcoming special issue of @gothicstudies.bsky.social - 'Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic' - is here! Eight essays on Blackwood's fiction, delving into questions of genre, war, empathy, occultism, and much more. Full issue out soon! @edinburghup.bsky.social @igagoths.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
The cover of my upcoming special issue of @gothicstudies.bsky.social - 'Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic' - is here! Eight essays on Blackwood's fiction, delving into questions of genre, war, empathy, occultism, and much more. Full issue out soon! @edinburghup.bsky.social @igagoths.bsky.social
Thanks to @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social for hosting the UK Premiere of my film!
Thanks to everyone who came to @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social this weekend. Special thanks to all our great guests: @kierlajanisse.bsky.social, Ben Wheatley & Andy Starke, Marc Price and the cast of THE ARBITER, & all the team from GAME, including @robwilliams71.bsky.social, for some terrific Q&As.
October 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Thanks to @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social for hosting the UK Premiere of my film!
I've been following this case for a while (this is the most in-depth coverage I've seen of it yet) and it's the first true crime case I've felt tempted to try to write a book about. One wrong turn and I could have been one of those girls. thewalrus.ca/why-did-a-gr...
Why Did a Group of Teenage Girls Kill a Man in a Downtown Toronto Parkette? | The Walrus
Inside the crime that shocked a city—and the courtroom drama that followed
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October 22, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I've been following this case for a while (this is the most in-depth coverage I've seen of it yet) and it's the first true crime case I've felt tempted to try to write a book about. One wrong turn and I could have been one of those girls. thewalrus.ca/why-did-a-gr...
Some fave reviews out of @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social "The best ghost story for Christmas since Stigma - absolutely stunning" (Stigma may be my favourite so this is high praise indeed!)
October 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Some fave reviews out of @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social "The best ghost story for Christmas since Stigma - absolutely stunning" (Stigma may be my favourite so this is high praise indeed!)
The first official review of THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM!
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Toronto After Dark 2025: THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM, Chills and Melancholy in The Swiss Alps
Seen wandering through the grim fog and pale moonlit wilderness of the Swiss Alps as a tiny speck among the trees and rocks, a man (Don McKellar) reaches his isolated hotel destination only to find th...
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October 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The first official review of THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM!
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Festival screenings for OCCUPANT so far: Just after the premiere at Sitges w/ producers David Gregory + Liane Cunje and pals Mariano Baino + Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni; DP Karim Hussain speaking at Toronto After Dark w/ actor Ben Petrie + producer Liane Cunje; UK premiere at Mayhem FF in Nottingham
October 20, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Festival screenings for OCCUPANT so far: Just after the premiere at Sitges w/ producers David Gregory + Liane Cunje and pals Mariano Baino + Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni; DP Karim Hussain speaking at Toronto After Dark w/ actor Ben Petrie + producer Liane Cunje; UK premiere at Mayhem FF in Nottingham
Canadian Premiere TODAY!
THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM will be at Toronto After Dark FF in the 'Canada After Dark' short film showcase at 3:45pm, with some of the cast and crew in person! Would love to see any reviews out of the fest!
THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM will be at Toronto After Dark FF in the 'Canada After Dark' short film showcase at 3:45pm, with some of the cast and crew in person! Would love to see any reviews out of the fest!
October 18, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Canadian Premiere TODAY!
THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM will be at Toronto After Dark FF in the 'Canada After Dark' short film showcase at 3:45pm, with some of the cast and crew in person! Would love to see any reviews out of the fest!
THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM will be at Toronto After Dark FF in the 'Canada After Dark' short film showcase at 3:45pm, with some of the cast and crew in person! Would love to see any reviews out of the fest!
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The UK PREMIERE of Kier-La Janisse's brilliant adaptation of the Algernon Blackwood short story THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM screens this Sunday at Mayhem, with a post-screening Q&A:
Tickets: www.broadway.org.uk/whats-on/may...
Tickets: www.broadway.org.uk/whats-on/may...
October 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The UK PREMIERE of Kier-La Janisse's brilliant adaptation of the Algernon Blackwood short story THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM screens this Sunday at Mayhem, with a post-screening Q&A:
Tickets: www.broadway.org.uk/whats-on/may...
Tickets: www.broadway.org.uk/whats-on/may...
World Premiere of THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM tomorrow at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social followed by Toronto After Dark, @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social @celluloidscreams.bsky.social @brooklynhorror.bsky.social and @imaginefff.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
World Premiere of THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM tomorrow at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social followed by Toronto After Dark, @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social @celluloidscreams.bsky.social @brooklynhorror.bsky.social and @imaginefff.bsky.social
THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM Trailer!
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‘The Occupant of the Room’ Teaser – Kier-La Janisse’s Narrative Debut to Premiere at Sitges [Exclusive]
We have an exclusive first look at the haunting teaser for The Occupant of the Room ahead of its world premiere tomorrow at Sitges Film Festival. The 31-minute short marks the narrative debut of Kier-...
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October 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM Trailer!
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This indigenous Canadian short film I saw last night as part of @kierlajanisse.bsky.social’s great All the Haunts Be Ours 2 folk horror box set (but apparently also available via YouTube?) would be an excellent thing to watch on Indigenous Peoples Day.
A review of Nalujuk Night (2021)
Interesting that it takes a short film (box set “extra”) to clarify this realization for me, especially considering that the subgenre has its roots in an early nonfiction work (Häxän), but I think a g...
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October 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This indigenous Canadian short film I saw last night as part of @kierlajanisse.bsky.social’s great All the Haunts Be Ours 2 folk horror box set (but apparently also available via YouTube?) would be an excellent thing to watch on Indigenous Peoples Day.