Episode 153: House of Psychotic Women Writer Kier-La Janisse and Foul Play (1978)

This week we're so incredibly thrilled to chat with writer, director, festival programmer, The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies and otherwise multi-hyphenate Kier-La Janisse! Her debut feature as a director, the documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, premiered last year at SXSW and is currently on Shudder. Her book House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films is celebrating its 10 year anniversary with a newly updated edition that's available through Fab Press as a signed copy with a bonus CD right now and will also be available through regular bookstores starting tomorrow!

We chat about her relationship to horror, her introduction to the genre as well as her writing and the Miskatonic Institute before digging into the Goldie Hawn/Chevy Chase film Foul Play. And while this is one of those nontraditional choices, her Scarred for Life story is one for the ages. We use that as a jumping off point to discuss the wild film.

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