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In 2012, Kier-La Janisse published House of Psychotic Women and forever changed the landscape of film analysis. Subtitled An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis, the book is an exhaustive look at films from all genres, each featuring one or more female characters with some degree of mental instability. House of Psychotic Women is split into two sections: memoir and appendix. Janisse begins by examining significant moments in her own life, confronting generational trauma, a troubled childhood, her teenage years as a juvenile delinquent, and her journey to festival programming through the lens of narrative film. Each stage of her life is paired with at least one movie in which she seeks to understand her own experiences by comparing them with a character facing a similar issue. Janisse’s vulnerable and unflinchingly honest writing invites the reader into her psyche while inspiring a deeper look into our own lives.

The memoir is...

Written and directed by Amelia Moses (Bloodthirsty), Bleed With Me stars Lee Marshall (“The Detectives”, “19-2”), Lauren Beatty (Bloodthirsty) and Aris Tyros (“In The Dark”).The DVD will be available for 27.97.

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In Bleed With Me, Rowan, a vulnerable outsider, is thrilled when the seemingly perfect Emily invites her on a winter getaway to an isolated cabin in the woods. Trust soon turns to paranoia when Rowan wakes up with mysterious incisions on her arm. Haunted by dream-like visions, Rowan starts to suspect that her friend is drugging her and stealing her blood. She...

Amelia Moses’ feature debut keeps us guessing as to who is the hunter and who is the prey as a holiday in the woods turns sour

Writer-director Amelia Moses makes her feature debut with this tautly constructed work of psychological horror which, although far from perfect, certainly suggests she’s a talent to watch out for. Like British film-maker Rose Glass’ outstanding horror-adjacent breakthrough Saint Maud, Moses’ story circumnavigates a relationship between two women, one that is charged with an intensity that’s more than platonic but less than erotic, and inflected by an unequal power distribution.

The story takes place in Canada. We largely we see it unfold through the eyes of Rowan, a young office drone who meets the more confident and glamorous Emily (Lauren Beatty) at work when Emily saves her from a sexually predatory co-worker. With the pair having become friends, Emily invites Rowan to come...

Toronto-based company also acquires Spiral, Deathcember

Raven Banner has acquired Canadian rights to Keith Thomas’ SXSW supernatural horror debut The Vigil, one of several pick-ups announced by the Toronto-based company on Tuesday (November 10).

The film, a SXSW official selection this year that premiered in 2019 Toronto Midnight Madness, centres on a man who encounters a malevolent force when he is tasked with watching over a deceased member of his former Orthodox community.

Raven Banner brokered the deal with Elle Driver and plans to release The Vigil alongside US distribution IFC Films in early 2021. Dave Davis and Malky Goldman star.

The company...

October is horror movie season, but there’s no reason to watch “Hocus Pocus” for the umpteenth time when there are newer offerings available. This year, several of the major horror film festivals across the U.S. were forced to cancel their physical gatherings, but they’ve joined forces to create a single virtual festival event loaded with promising new work from around the world. Running October 8 – 11, Nightstream represents the collaborative programming efforts of Boston Underground, Brooklyn Horror, Overlook, the North Bend Film Festival, and Popcorn Frights Festival. The supersized curatorial undertaking has yielded an international lineup of genre efforts that include some favorites from earlier the festival season as well as many discoveries.

Launching as New York Film Festival’s virtual edition winds down, Nightstream is another example of ongoing efforts to replicate the festival experience in these stay-at-home times. The program opens Thursday with the world premiere of the Hulu Original production “Run,...

A young woman's sanity slow slips away on a woodsy getaway with friends in Bleed With Me, the debut feature from writer/director Amelia Moses. Rowan (Lee Marshall) is the quiet type, not one to make a fuss or inject herself into situations that don't concern her, but when she's invited to join her best friend Emily (Lauren Beatty) and her boyfriend Brendan (Aris Tyros) on a outing to a remote cabin, she says yes, but it's not all rest and relaxation when things start going wrong. Within hours Rowan's anxieties begin taking hold and in order to cope with her feeling like an interloper, she begins to drink pretty heavily, leading to numerous unnecessary confrontations and the bonds of friendship are tested. Emily tries to...

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Stars: Lee Marshall, Lauren Beatty, Aris Tyros | Written and Directed by Amelia Moses

Yet another Canadian horror production (which is always a good sign in my book), Bleed With Me is a female-led genre film from Montreal-based filmmaker Amelia Moses, making her feature debut, whose acclaimed short Undress Me played at Fantasia in 2017.

Bleed With Me sees Rowan (Lee Marshall), a self-destructive and vulnerable outsider, thrilled when the seemingly perfect Emily invites her on a winter getaway to an isolated cabin in the woods. Struggling to integrate herself with her best friend, Emily (Lauren Beatty) and her unfriendly boyfriend, Brendan (Aris Tyros) and feeling like a third wheel, she drinks to calm her nerves, pushing her body and mind deep into a hazy trance, where she begins to witness nightmarish late-night visions that make her feel increasingly unwelcome, unsure and unstable. Trust soon turns into paranoia when Rowan wakes up...

There have been two very distinctive takes on the vampire movie at Fantasia 2020. Darkly witty Seventies pastiche Climate Of The Hunter has a lot to offer to older viewers. This one, by contrast, focuses on the teenagers we're used to seeing getting their necks bitten into in the genre, but has a very different tone from other works aimed at that age group.

Rowan (Lee Marshall) is a shy, awkward girl with a history of self harm. She can barely believe that the wealthy, popular Emily (Lauren Beatty) has invited her along on a trip to her family cabin in the woods. Neither can Emily's boyfriend, Brendan (Aris Tyros), who doesn't want to hurt Rowan's feelings but had clearly hoped for a quiet weekend away with the girl he loves. There's a hint of trouble in their relationship, which makes Rowan feel even more strongly that she's in...

A score is one of the key elements of a film to set its tone, and we are welcomed to Bleed with Me with a sound of familiarity, but effectiveness in conveying a sense of foreboding. This is no secluded cabin story with a murderer about to spring out of its surrounding woods; however, it’s still a horror story. In her first feature as writer and director, Amelia Moses states the fright that befalls those in this cabin comes in the form of the insecurities and anxieties that are often present in female friendships. But the film is full of ambiguity that allows for interpretations of varying kinds. With an unsettling psychological horror film, Moses proves to be both a director and screenwriter to watch. (Tw// self-harm—below and in the film.)

It looks to be a fun winter getaway of card games, drinking, and the added temptation of devil’s lettuce,...