Becky and Alicia are joined by special guest Kier-La Janisse (director of 2021 SXSW Audience Award winner Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror) to talk about two of the most controversial Canadian films of 1975: Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS and Gina. Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, programmer and producer, founder of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies and author of House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007). She has co-edited several books including Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015) and Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television (2017) and is currently co-editing an anthology on the films of Robert Downey, Sr. and writing a monograph on Monte Hellman’s Cockfighter. She was a producer on the documentaries Eurocrime! The Italian Cop And Gangster Films that Ruled the ‘70s (2012) and Tales of the Uncanny (2020), and her first film as writer/director/producer, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, has its World Premiere at SXSW 2021.
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