Biography
Kier-La Janisse is a Canadian film writer, programmer, producer, and founder of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. Her best-known work as a writer is House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films which many critics consider an important milestone in both confessional film writing and the study of female madness onscreen. Video Watchdog’s Tim Lucas referred to it as one of the 10 “most vital” horror film books of all time, and Ian MacAllister-McDonald of the LA Review of Books called it “the next step in genre theory, as well as the most frightening and heart-rending memoir I’ve read in years.” Her debut feature as a filmmaker, the three-hour documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, premiered at SXSW 2021 where it won the Midnighters Audience Award.
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Filmography7 titles
CAMP
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
1000 Women in Horror
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Eli Roth's History of Horror
To Fire You Come at Last