It was announced today that Severin Films has optioned the adaptation rights to Killing For Culture, the cult classic nonfiction exploration of death on film written by David Kerekes and David Slater. Slated to adapt and direct the feature is Kier-La Janisse, whose Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror won the SXSW Midnighters award in 2021 and remains one of the greatest documentaries about film of the last couple of decades. A tireless researcher with a unique point of view that lends itself to deep readings, Janisse's involvement in this project seems like a perfect fit. Her work compiling Severin's The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle is a high water mark for home video, which follows on her impressive publishing work including...
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- 2/5/2024
- Screen Anarchy
Salem, Massachusetts brews up more Halloween activities than you can shake a broom at each October, so it was logical for Salem Horror Fest to take place during the spookiest month of the year. For its sixth installment, however, the festivities have moved to the spring, making it much easier to attend without throngs of tourists.
If last night’s opening night ceremony — headlined by a screening of Candyman with Tony Todd in attendance — is any indication, horror lovers will show up any time of the year. Held at the Peabody Essex Museum, the event kicked off with poignagnt opening remarks by festival director Kay Lynch. She briefly outlined the evolution of Salem Horror, which was born out of her desire for catharsis after the 2016 election.
With folk horror being a common theme among some of this year’s programming, Kier-La Janisse was enlisted to deliver a keynote address. Much like how her essential documentary,...
If last night’s opening night ceremony — headlined by a screening of Candyman with Tony Todd in attendance — is any indication, horror lovers will show up any time of the year. Held at the Peabody Essex Museum, the event kicked off with poignagnt opening remarks by festival director Kay Lynch. She briefly outlined the evolution of Salem Horror, which was born out of her desire for catharsis after the 2016 election.
With folk horror being a common theme among some of this year’s programming, Kier-La Janisse was enlisted to deliver a keynote address. Much like how her essential documentary,...
- 4/21/2023
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
Named by MovieMaker Magazine as one of the “best genre festivals in the world,” Salem Horror Fest is back in 2023, and the fest has announced this week that their sixth edition will be kicking off at the Peabody Essex Museum on Thursday, April 20, 2023.
The event will honor Hollywood legend Tony Todd for his groundbreaking performance originating the iconic role of Candyman from the 1992 film, plus that film’s subsequent sequels in addition to his towering filmography of more than 250 credits including Night of the Living Dead, The Crow, and Final Destination with recurring roles in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, The Flash, 24, Stargate Sg-1, Scream: The TV Series, and more.
Additionally, author and film critic Kier-La Janisse will provide a keynote speech about the role of folklore in our history and culture followed by a special screening of the original Candyman and Q&a with Tony Todd...
The event will honor Hollywood legend Tony Todd for his groundbreaking performance originating the iconic role of Candyman from the 1992 film, plus that film’s subsequent sequels in addition to his towering filmography of more than 250 credits including Night of the Living Dead, The Crow, and Final Destination with recurring roles in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, The Flash, 24, Stargate Sg-1, Scream: The TV Series, and more.
Additionally, author and film critic Kier-La Janisse will provide a keynote speech about the role of folklore in our history and culture followed by a special screening of the original Candyman and Q&a with Tony Todd...
- 2/15/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Polaris Photo: courtesy of Fantasia International Film Festival
This year's Fantasia International Film Festival is to open with Kc Carthew's Polaris, it has been revealed. The dystopian actioner, which follows a young woman and her adoptive mother, who happens to be a polar bear, on a perilous journey through northern badlands, stars Viva Lee and will screen on 14 July at the Concordia Hall in Montreal.
With the second wave of festival titles also announced, there's a lot to look forward to. A special focus on queer genre cinema will include vigilante thriller Compulsus and Lebanese heavy metal documentary Sirens. A strong animé line-up features Shinji Higuchi's eagerly awaited Shin Ultraman, while other big name films set to screen at the festival include Patrice Leconte’s Maigret, Toshiro Saiga’s Red Shoes and Neil Labute's House Of Darkness.
Kier-La Janisse, whose Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched: A History Of Folk Horror...
This year's Fantasia International Film Festival is to open with Kc Carthew's Polaris, it has been revealed. The dystopian actioner, which follows a young woman and her adoptive mother, who happens to be a polar bear, on a perilous journey through northern badlands, stars Viva Lee and will screen on 14 July at the Concordia Hall in Montreal.
With the second wave of festival titles also announced, there's a lot to look forward to. A special focus on queer genre cinema will include vigilante thriller Compulsus and Lebanese heavy metal documentary Sirens. A strong animé line-up features Shinji Higuchi's eagerly awaited Shin Ultraman, while other big name films set to screen at the festival include Patrice Leconte’s Maigret, Toshiro Saiga’s Red Shoes and Neil Labute's House Of Darkness.
Kier-La Janisse, whose Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched: A History Of Folk Horror...
- 6/2/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
On this episode of Daily Dead's official podcast, Bryan Christopher, Emily von Seele, and Derek Anderson celebrate folk horror with a discussion of Kier-La Janisse's insightful documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, and they also talk about the folk horror films Witchfinder General, Kandisha, Viy, Wake Wood, Alison's Birthday, and Lake of the Dead.
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Looking for more scary good Corpse Club content? Be sure to check out our Corpse Club website and memberships. Not only can you view past episodes, but you can also sign up to be an official Corpse Club member to enjoy a wide range of rewards, including a shirt and pin that are to die for, access to bonus content, and the ability to suggest an episode topic!
- 5/6/2022
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
The Daily Stream: Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched Will Have You Drawing Up A Folk Horror Watchlist
(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they've been watching, why it's worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)
The Movie: "Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror"
Where You Can Stream It: AMC+, Shudder
The Pitch: The folk horror sub-genre gets the documentary treatment in a film tracing it from its "Wicker Man"-era roots to its more recent revival in movies like "Midsommar."
Directed by Kier-La Janisse, "Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched" hit Shudder last month and it really drove home the point to me that as much as I...
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The Movie: "Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror"
Where You Can Stream It: AMC+, Shudder
The Pitch: The folk horror sub-genre gets the documentary treatment in a film tracing it from its "Wicker Man"-era roots to its more recent revival in movies like "Midsommar."
Directed by Kier-La Janisse, "Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched" hit Shudder last month and it really drove home the point to me that as much as I...
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- 2/7/2022
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
Huh. Who knew the Nightstream audience were such softies for heavy metal monster bands? Nightstream wrapped up a couple days ago so all that was left was to tally the votes and announce the audience awards! The documentary This is Gwar took top honors this year, winning the audience award in the feature film category. Another documentary, Kier-La Janisse’s doc, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror got a runner-up nod, along with Japanese sci-fi comedy Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes. In regards to the shorts, two films shared top honors this year, Ghost Dogs, from Joe Cappa and Guts from Chris McInroy. Congrats to all the winners and congrats to the National Alliance To End Homelessness and climate change advocacy...
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- 10/15/2021
- Screen Anarchy
Yoo Ah-in (Voice Of Silence), Zelda Adams (Hellbender) win acting prizes.
EuiJeong Hong’s South Korean thriller Voice Of Silence has won the 25th anniversary edition Fantasia International Film Festival’s Cheval Noir award for best film.
Hong’s film follows a mute low-level gangster tasked with taking charge of an 11-year-old kidnapped girl from a wealthy family. The jury described Voice Of Silence as “impossible to pin down, and truly idiosyncratic. Put simply, it’s unlike anything we’d seen before”.
Juried awards
In other Cheval Noir awards Yoo Ah-in who plays the mute man won best actor while...
EuiJeong Hong’s South Korean thriller Voice Of Silence has won the 25th anniversary edition Fantasia International Film Festival’s Cheval Noir award for best film.
Hong’s film follows a mute low-level gangster tasked with taking charge of an 11-year-old kidnapped girl from a wealthy family. The jury described Voice Of Silence as “impossible to pin down, and truly idiosyncratic. Put simply, it’s unlike anything we’d seen before”.
Juried awards
In other Cheval Noir awards Yoo Ah-in who plays the mute man won best actor while...
- 8/26/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
It’s that time of year again. We’re only a month away from Halloween and already dark shapes are starting to emerge from the shadows. The UK’s favourite horror film festival, Arrow Video Frightfest, has unveiled a stonking line-up. It includes magnificent documentary Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched: A History Of Folk Horror, but as we covered that at the Fantasia International Film Festival, we’re bringing you a whole new selection of top quality titles to look out for at the London event. Dig in!
No Man Of God Photo: Courtesy of FrightFest
No Man Of God
Many films have been made about Ted Bundy over the years but very few have been directed by women, something which changes the complexion of this one directly. indeed, it’s arguably not about Bundy at all, but – rather in the manner of David Fincher’s Zodiac – about the obsession...
No Man Of God Photo: Courtesy of FrightFest
No Man Of God
Many films have been made about Ted Bundy over the years but very few have been directed by women, something which changes the complexion of this one directly. indeed, it’s arguably not about Bundy at all, but – rather in the manner of David Fincher’s Zodiac – about the obsession...
- 8/22/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Ashley Thorpe's animation illuminates Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched: A History Of Folk Horror Photo: Fantasia International Film Festival
It’s not often that a three hour documentary emerges as one of the most popular choices at a film festival, but at this year’s Fantasia it’s widely agreed that Kier-La Janisse’s Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched: A History Of Folk Horror is a standout. It’s not only a film of major importance in recording the history of cinema, it’s also tremendously enjoyable from start to finish, densely packed with information and utterly beguiling. The secret to that seems in part to be Kier-La’s infectious passion for her subject, so when we met up during the festival to discuss the film, I asked her where that passion began.
“I was a really big Wicker Man fan as a teenager, and everything kind of grew from there,...
It’s not often that a three hour documentary emerges as one of the most popular choices at a film festival, but at this year’s Fantasia it’s widely agreed that Kier-La Janisse’s Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched: A History Of Folk Horror is a standout. It’s not only a film of major importance in recording the history of cinema, it’s also tremendously enjoyable from start to finish, densely packed with information and utterly beguiling. The secret to that seems in part to be Kier-La’s infectious passion for her subject, so when we met up during the festival to discuss the film, I asked her where that passion began.
“I was a really big Wicker Man fan as a teenager, and everything kind of grew from there,...
- 8/15/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Running for more than three hours, overflowing with film clips, and populated by truly insightful experts, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror is a cinematic graduate-level course––in the best sense. Written, produced, and directed with stylistic verve by Kier-La Janisse, the documentary is a staggeringly immersive experience, all somber music, eerie singing, and unsettling, often gruesome imagery. It is also a creation that inspires the viewer to dive even further into the world of “folk horror.” Tracking down and watching the films highlighted here would be difficult, if not impossible, but that search is part of the fun. Make no mistake: folk horror is fun.
As Woodlands begins, Janisse’s stellar experts explain, in voiceover, what it means to be considered “folk horror.” This array of words forms a strange and enticing tapestry, from “The juxtaposition of the prosaic and the uncanny” to “The Devil...
As Woodlands begins, Janisse’s stellar experts explain, in voiceover, what it means to be considered “folk horror.” This array of words forms a strange and enticing tapestry, from “The juxtaposition of the prosaic and the uncanny” to “The Devil...
- 8/10/2021
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror Review — Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021) Film Review from the 25th Annual Fantasia International Film Festival, a movie written and directed by Kier-La Janisse, featuring Kevin Kölsch, Dennis Widmyer, Piers Haggard, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, [...]
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- 8/9/2021
- by Jacob Mouradian
- Film-Book
Austin, TX – Mondo is excited to announce the new book release of Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive, available for saleon November 16, 2021 from author Lars Nilsen, editor Kier-La Janisse, along with several genre enthusiast contributors. Nilsen, a longtime Alamo Drafthouse film programmer and now at Austin Film Society, and Janisse, genre scholar and author (House of Psychotic Women), programmer and documentary filmmaker (Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror), have written a definitive guide to exploitation cinema.
At the dawn of this century, a scrappy one-screen theater in Austin, Texas became ground zero for a revolution in film exhibition. That cinema, the Alamo Drafthouse, took the seemingly foolhardy step of offering free screenings of exploitation and horror movies that had quite literally been consigned to the scrap heap. The idea began in the sleep-deprived mind of its co-founder, Tim League,...
At the dawn of this century, a scrappy one-screen theater in Austin, Texas became ground zero for a revolution in film exhibition. That cinema, the Alamo Drafthouse, took the seemingly foolhardy step of offering free screenings of exploitation and horror movies that had quite literally been consigned to the scrap heap. The idea began in the sleep-deprived mind of its co-founder, Tim League,...
- 8/4/2021
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
Event will include the launch of the festival’s newest and largest programme, Harbour.
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has unveiled the first titles for its summer event, which has shifted to a hybrid format due as the pandemic continues.
The celebration of the festival’s 50th anniversary was due to run as a physical series of screenings and events from June 2-6, complementing the online-only edition of IFFR that took place in February.
It will now be presented as a hybrid event, with a film programme that will be available online in the Netherlands and physically in Rotterdam, as...
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has unveiled the first titles for its summer event, which has shifted to a hybrid format due as the pandemic continues.
The celebration of the festival’s 50th anniversary was due to run as a physical series of screenings and events from June 2-6, complementing the online-only edition of IFFR that took place in February.
It will now be presented as a hybrid event, with a film programme that will be available online in the Netherlands and physically in Rotterdam, as...
- 4/15/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The 28th SXSW Film Festival revealed the Audience Award winners Tuesday, with Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free, The Fallout and Not Going Quietly among the list of honorees. The news comes after the online edition of the fest announced its jury awards.
The Mary Wharton-directed docu Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free chronicles the iconic musician’s work on his lauded 1994 record Wildflowers via newly discovered archived footage. The film won the Audience Award in the Headliners category, while The Fallout, Megan Park’s reflection on teen grief and trauma after a mass shooting — something all too familiar right now — won under the narrative feature competition banner. On the documentary competition banner, Nicholas Bruckman’s moving feature docu Not Going Quietly took the Audience Award.
Over the course of five days of SXSW Online, the SXSW Film Festival screened 75 features including 57 world premieres, three international premieres, four North American Premieres,...
The Mary Wharton-directed docu Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free chronicles the iconic musician’s work on his lauded 1994 record Wildflowers via newly discovered archived footage. The film won the Audience Award in the Headliners category, while The Fallout, Megan Park’s reflection on teen grief and trauma after a mass shooting — something all too familiar right now — won under the narrative feature competition banner. On the documentary competition banner, Nicholas Bruckman’s moving feature docu Not Going Quietly took the Audience Award.
Over the course of five days of SXSW Online, the SXSW Film Festival screened 75 features including 57 world premieres, three international premieres, four North American Premieres,...
- 3/23/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
The documentary “Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free” and Megan Park’s “The Fallout” won the audience awards from the 2021 SXSW Film Festival, it was announced Tuesday.
Mary Wharton’s “Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free,” which tells the backstory behind the late rock star’s “Wildflowers” recording sessions, won among the three headlining films playing the festival. “The Fallout,” a teen drama starring Jenna Ortega and Maddie Ziegler, won the audience prize for narrative features after it also won the category’s jury prize.
“Not Going Quietly,” a documentary by Nicholas Bruckman about progressive political activist Ady Barkan and his fight with Als, won the audience award for films in the documentary feature competition. Director Natalie Morales also won the Narrative Spotlight audience award for her film “Language Lessons,” and Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler won the Documentary Spotlight Audience Award for “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America.
Mary Wharton’s “Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free,” which tells the backstory behind the late rock star’s “Wildflowers” recording sessions, won among the three headlining films playing the festival. “The Fallout,” a teen drama starring Jenna Ortega and Maddie Ziegler, won the audience prize for narrative features after it also won the category’s jury prize.
“Not Going Quietly,” a documentary by Nicholas Bruckman about progressive political activist Ady Barkan and his fight with Als, won the audience award for films in the documentary feature competition. Director Natalie Morales also won the Narrative Spotlight audience award for her film “Language Lessons,” and Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler won the Documentary Spotlight Audience Award for “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America.
- 3/23/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
An epic and sprawling investigation, dissection, and contextualization of the cultural impact of folk horror in cinema, first-time feature director Kier-La Janisse's Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror is an outstanding achievement in the academic treatment of genre filmmaking. Clocking in at nearly two hundred minutes, the film attempts to crown itself the May Queen of comprehensive examination of the topic, and with over a hundred films and more than fifty interviews addressed, it's fair to say that this is the unquestioned champion. Beginning with the holy triumvirate of The Blood on Satan's Claw (P. Haggard), Witchfinder General (M. Reeves), and The Wicker Man (R. Hardy) to set the scene, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched delves deeply into the well of...
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- 3/17/2021
- Screen Anarchy
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