Big Smash! Productions is the personal website of film writer and programmer Kier-La Janisse (that's me). Here you can read about various screenings, events, film productions, publications and other projects I am involved with. This site is also a gateway to the annual Bloodshots 48-Hour Horror Filmmaking Challenge and The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, a community-based scholastic curriculum for genre film students.
SITE NEWS:
03/04/2013 01:26 by Kier-La Janisse
For my first instalment of The Psychotronic Tourist on the FANGORIA website, I decided to kick off the column by visiting some of the key locations from one of De Palma’s most excessive pictures, the oft-maligned VERTIGO/REAR WINDOW riff BODY DOUBLE (1984).
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03/04/2013 01:20 by Kier-La Janisse
A little mix I made for FANGORIA Magazine on the eve of the North American release of COME OUT AND PLAY, the remake of Narciso Ibañez Serrador's WHO CAN KILL A CHILD?
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28/02/2013 00:29 by Kier-La Janisse
Due to the brouhaha around FEARnet's 40th anniversary EXORCIST Marathon, I was able to snatch a few minutes on the phone with the legendary LINDA BLAIR! The conversation was brief but I did manage to sneak in some questions about BORN INNOCENT and HOW TO GET REVENGE!
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UPCOMING EVENTS:
02/06/2013
Montreal's long-standing Le Cineclub/The Film Society asked me to introduce Polanski's REPULSION (in 35mm!) on June 2nd.
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08/06/2013 - 09/06/2013
The Niagara Falls Comicon is mounting the inaugural FALLS HORROR FEST, with screenings, panels, dealers' tables and more, all set against the weird and wondrous backdrop of Niagara Falls. They actually have me listed as a celebrity! (?) alongside Tom Savini, Kane Hodder, Lori Cardille and David Prowse, not to mention my pal and FANGO cohort Chris Alexander!
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