Monday, December 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Los Feliz Theatre, Los Angeles
### **ABOUT THE FILMS:** **“The Occupant of the Room,” 2025, Dir. Kier-La Janisse, 30 Mins, Severin Films, Canada** A schoolteacher’s late-night arrival at a hotel in the Alps without a reservation leaves him with no option but to accept the room of a missing hotel guest — leading to a sleepless night full of strange and uncanny occurrences. The narrative debut of Kier-La Janisse, director of the SXSW award-winning documentary WOODLANDS DARK and DAYS BEWITCHED: A HISTORY OF FOLK HORROR, and author of the pioneering horror memoir *House of Psychotic Women*, is based on the classic chiller of the same name by Algernon Blackwood, FORMAT: DCP **THEATRE OF HORRORS: THE SORDID STORY OF PARIS’ GRAND GUIGNOL, 2025, Dir. David Gregory, 87 Mins, Severin Films, France/USA** In 1897, in an alleyway located in the sordid neighborhood of Pigalle (Paris), an old chapel converted into a performance space was transformed into a theater steeped in naturalism, controversy, and macabre spectacles. Over the next 65 years, the Grand Guignol would provoke both repulsion and celebration in equal measure. Narrated by Barbara Steele and featuring state-of-the-art visual effects, this documentary chronicles the sociocultural impact of France’s most infamous creation. FORMAT: DCP