By popular demand, after a successful chartered bus tour of iconic cult and horror film locations in Toronto last summer, Spectacular Optical and The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies invite you to the first-ever Horror Express-Montreal on Wednesday July 17th! This 6-hour bus tour hosted by longtime horror journalist Michael Gingold (Fangoria, Rue Morgue) and House of Psychotic Women author Kier-La Janisse will stop at 10 iconic horror locations from Canada’s infamous tax shelter era. Come join us for fun and photo ops as we navigate through the history of Montreal’s cinematic underbelly.
The tour will begin with a 9:30am registration in central Montreal (location to be disclosed to registrants in an email, but it will be close to Fantasia headquarters at Concordia’s Hall Building) and departure at 10am, and will run until approximately 4:00pm, including a stop for lunch along the route (cost of lunch not included).
PLUS! The luxury bus has AV so we can watch clips of the films in advance of arriving at each location! But act fast because there are only 30 seats!
TICKETS $50.00 CAD – available in Spectacular Optical’s webstore HERE >>
This tour is being organized in conjunction with Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival, which runs July 11-Aug 1, 2019.
Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, producer, former programmer, and founder of horror school The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. She is the author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and contributed to Recovering 1940s Horror: Traces of a Lost Decade (2014) The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul (2015), We Are the Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale (2017) and Refocus: The Films of Roberta Findlay (2023). She co-edited (with Paul Corupe) and published (via her imprint Spectacular Optical) the anthology books Kid Power! (2014), Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015), Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin (2017) and Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television (2017). She edited the book Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and her first film as director/producer, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror was released by Severin Films in 2021.
