Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter

The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser

A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress

The Devil Down Under: Satanic Panic in Australia from Rosaleen Norton to Alison's Birthday

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Tales of the Uncanny

Eli Roth's History of Horror

Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix

Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

Celluloid Horror

The Art of the Calendar

Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon

The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film

To Fire You Come at Last

Blood In The Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon

A Folk Horror Tale

S.W.A.L.K. II

From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film

Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita

We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea

Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s

Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue

Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema

Kier-La Janisse (born October 3, 1972) 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 (FAB Press, 2012) 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.

Kier-La Janisse