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SXSW 2021 Interview: Kier-La Janisse Talks Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched (Exclusive) By The poster for writer-director-producer Kier-La Janisse’s documentary, ‘Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched.’ Cultures around the world have long alternately celebrated, concealed and manipulated their own histories in an attempt to find spiritual resonance in their surroundings. A prime example of society’s efforts to find that awakening came through the rise of paganism in the late 1960s and earl...

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched Review: A Diverting Survey of Folk-Horror Cinema and TV Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched Review: A Diverting Survey of Folk-Horror Cinema and TV Kier-La Janisses documentary provides an alluring international overview of macabre genre films drawn from folklore and superstition. Dennis Harvey, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director: Kier-La Janisse With: Piers Haggard, Lawrence Gordon Clark, Alice Lowe, Robert Eggers, Jonathan Rigby, Alexandra Heller-Nichol...