WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED (2021) Round Table Movie Review

WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED (2021) d. Kier-la Janisse

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Join AC and his awesome panel of guests (S.A. Bradley, Nile Arena, Aaron AuBuchon, Christianne Benedict, Gavin Schmitt) as we attempt to wrap our collective heads around the breadth of films covered in this astonishing documentary, subtitled "A History of Folk Horror" from author and mystical conduit to awesomeness, Kier-la Janisse. Keep your notepads handy, because you'll be writing down titles like a fiend! We also chat about the fantastic box set, All The Haunts Be Ours, now available from Severin Films.

ORCHESTRATOR OF STORMS (2022) Movie Review

Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin (2022) d. Dima Ballin/Kat Ellinger (USA) (112 min)

In the press release, we are presented with the following, “Has there been a genre artist more fundamentally misunderstood and inappropriately discussed than Jean Rollin? He remains one of genre cinema’s most singular poets, a theatrical fantasist, interpreter of dreams, orchestrator of storms. His recurring use of twin or paired protagonists and surrealistic interpretations of vampirism, with tones that were often in the midnight space between gothic literature and fairy tale, his sense of humour and intellectual musings, his sumptuous visual ideas, coming together to make inspired works of genre art that ran against nearly all traditions of the times they were made in.”

Fantasia Day 4 (Sunday, July 22)

All right, friends, we’ve made it through the first weekend of Fantasia, which means a reprieve from midnight screenings aka Those Ol’ Man AC Killers until next Friday.

Author and film programmer Kier-La Janisse was on hand yesterday for the launch of her new book, House of Psychotic Women, published by FAB press. In conjunction with the book’s release, Janisse is programming a quartet of films also highlighted in her tome, the first of which being the 1977 Mia Farrow ghost story, The Haunting of Julia (aka Full Circle). Seeing this rare film on the big screen (via a digital copy made from what is believed one of the few surviving 35 mm prints) was absolutely a treat, having only seen it one previous time on VHS nearly 15 years ago.