Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La JANISSE (1972, Canada) is an author, programmer and filmmaker specialising in horror. She has published and contributed to several books on horror cinema, including the 2012 House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films. She is the founder of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, Spectacular Optical Publications and CineMuerte Horror Film Festival. Her work for horror cinema was the subject of the documentary Celluloid Horror (2004). From 2005 to 2010, she directed several unofficial music documentaries, referred to as “bibliodocs”, including Teen Routines: The Self-Made Magic of R. Stevie Moore (2010). Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021) premiered at SXSW Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award in the Midnighters section.