Miskatonic Institute: INTRODUCTION TO HORROR FILM CRITICISM FOR TEENS

MISKATONIC: INTRODUCTION TO HORROR FILM CRITICISM FOR TEENS

Course Cost: $42 + taxes

Miskatonic director and longtime horror writer/film programmer Kier-La Janisse kicks off the Miskatonic season with this 2-evening course on horror film criticism for teens aged 14+. The course will focus on developing an aptitude for critical interpretation, using Jack Smight’s 1973 Frankenstein: The True Story as a focal point. Examples of various historical schools of writing and interpretation will accompany open discussion in class, as well as individual review assignments. Each participant will be given a movie to take home and review using the tools and insider tips discussed in class, and these reviews will be posted on the Fangoria Magazine website's Miskatonic Blog!

Kier-La Janisse is a writer and film programmer who co-founded BLUE SUNSHINE, Montreal's psychotronic film centre, and hosts cult film screenings under the moniker Big Smash! Productions. She was head programmer for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, Texas from 2003-2007, founded the CineMuerte Horror Film Festival and the Big Smash! Music-on-Film Festival (both in Vancouver) and was the subject of the documentary Celluloid Horror (2005). She has written for Filmmaker, Rue Morgue and Fangoria magazines, has contributed to The Scarecrow Movie Guide (Sasquatch Books, 2004) and Destroy All Movies!! (forthcoming from Fantagraphics), and is the author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi, published by FAB Press in 2007. Currently, Ms. Janisse is working on a new book about female neurosis in horror and exploitation films entitled House of Psychotic Women.