SHUDDER
Presents…
THE HAUNTED SEASON: THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM
From Renowned Author and Filmmaker Kier-La Janisse
Will Debut On Shudder December 1
Synopsis
From renowned author and filmmaker Kier-La Janisse (Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror), The Haunted Season is a series of chilling horror tales following the classic tradition of telling ghost stories for Christmas. The new film in the horror anthology series, The Occupant of the Room is based on the classic chiller of the same name by Algernon Blackwood about a schoolteacher whose 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 Occupant of the Room marks the second film in The Haunted Season anthology. A new episode will premiere each December on Shudder in the tradition of telling ghost stories for Christmas. The first film, To Fire You Come At Last (2024), is currently streaming on Shudder.
Director: Kier-La Janisse
Writer: Kier-La Janisse (adaptation)
Producers: Liane Cunje, Shannon Hanmer, Kier-La Janisse
Executive Producers: David Gregory, Carl Daft, Rob Cotterill
Director Of Photography: Karim Hussain
Editing and Sound Design: Benjamin Shearn
Music: Anju Singh
Animation: Anna Malina
About The Director
Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, producer and acquisitions executive for Severin Films. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023), and is the creator of The Haunted Season on Shudder. The Occupant of the Room is her first narrative film.
