Why don’t you just keep going?’"Īlthough the doc’s range of movies spans pretty much a century of filmmaking, it feels relevant, Janisse says. "So instead of telling me where to cut it to get it down, David said, ‘You have pretty much half of a feature here.
"And within a few months, I handed in a piece that was over two hours long … so it was longer than Blood on Satan’s Claw," she says. "It was really supposed to be a short featurette that would go on another Blu-ray," she says. For Woodlands, Janisse interviewed 50 filmmakers, critics and scholars, as well as cobbling together footage from more than 200 films. That assignment would take Janisse years to complete, drawing on her many contacts from the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, the organization she founded in 2010 devoted to serious study of genre films. "He said, ‘OK, sure, go do it.’ So that was it." "So I suggested to my boss David (Gregory), ‘For an extra, why don’t we do a documentary about folk horror?’
"It really started with Severin Films announcing they were going to be releasing the film The Blood on Satan’s Claw around May 2018," she says. Janisse has worked there since 2017, mostly as a producer and editor, creating supplemental DVD material for various releases. Janisse, 49, got a chance to act on her personal fascination courtesy of Severin Films, an American film production/distribution company specializing in restoring cult films and releasing them on Blu-ray. In cinemas, a couple of exciting films popped up as exciting new variants of the form, both directed by Ben Wheatley: Kill List and A Field in England "and I started to see the term folk horror pop up a lot in articles, especially in British magazines."
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"It was really around 2010 when the term was used in Mark Gatiss’s (BBC TV series) A History of Horror and people started to use it more," Janisse says in a phone interview from her home. Janisse has been working on the film for years now, acknowledging she was fascinated by folk horror going back a decade.
Janisse brings along her epic, three-hour-plus doc Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, a fascinating examination of folk horror in cinema, as the cornerstone of this year’s festival. It is fitting, then, that Janisse returns to Winnipeg from her Pender Island home in British Columbia as the headliner of December’s Gimme Some Truth fest in her new capacity as a documentary filmmaker. He had such a unique perspective on things, he championed so many Canadian filmmakers, but it was never to fill a quota or satisfy some funding requirement - he genuinely loved Canadian cinema and saw all the things that made it idiosyncratic and weird." "It’s hard to imagine the Cinematheque without Dave," she says. During her time here she worked closely with the late Cinematheque artistic dirctor Dave Barber.
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