Prior to all that, Vancouverites might remember Janisse as the intimidating Black Dog Video employee who battled the BC government-and won!-so that you could watch the German art-splatter classic Nekromantik in the comfort of your living room. Subtitled A Topographical Autobiography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films, the book was an instant classic when it emerged in 2012, establishing Janisse as one of the primary voices in the field of horror critique, which she otherwise helped institutionalize with the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies-an international venture that stylishly mixed scholarship with obsessive fandom. Janisse’s passion for horror cinema outlasted the marriage while her paradigm-shifting book House of Psychotic Women will outlast everything.
That was the goal of that little pilgrimage. I had a tip that it was still there, so I went up and asked around. “I went to the location of the harbour scene at the beginning of the film,” she tells Stir. Her mission? To find the boat from The Wicker Man.
AFTER HONEYMOONING AROUND Europe in the late ‘90s, Kier-La Janisse waved goodbye to her new husband as he headed home to Vancouver and then set off, alone, for a remote part of Scotland.
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