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Episode 2

CIPHER IN THE SNOW

Kier-La talks to acclaimed poet, author, playwright and screenwriter Carol Lynn Pearson, who adapted Jean Mizer’s classic short story into the 1974 Mormon film production of the same name.

Credits:

Written, edited and hosted by: Kier-La Janisse Special guest: Carol Lynn Pearson 

Bonus Audio – Carol Lynn Pearson reads “Our Mother in the Movies”

Clips from:

Cipher in the Snow ©1974 Brigham Young University Brigham Young ©1940 Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation Mirror, Mirror ©1969 Brigham Young University The Great Brain ©1978 Inter Planetary Pictures  Snakes ©MCMLXXV Holy Wednesday Productions, Inc.

Music:

War in Heaven – The Osmonds ℗1973 Polydor Records Before the Beginning – The Osmonds ℗1973 Polydor Records Are You Up There? – The Osmonds ℗1973 Polydor Records Darlin’ – The Osmonds ℗1973 Polydor Records And Now You Know Me – The Clingers ℗1969 Columbia Records

Additional music from freemusicarchive.org: Solitude – Entertainment for the Braindead Travel Light – Jason Shaw Running Water – Jason Shaw Ghosts – Crowander

Theme Song: “Hot Fudge Holy Moley” from WXYZ-TV’s The Hot Fudge Show (1974-1980)

Special Thanks to Skip Elsheimer, Dennis Nyback, Jesse Ficks, Chris Davidson and Becky Ebenkamp Logo by Sinead Yau at Mojo Valley

Creators

  • Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. 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), and 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).