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Kier-La Janisse (born October 3, 1972) is a Canadian film writer, programmer, producer, and founder of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies.
Kier-La Janisse is the author of House of Psychotic Women, a book about female horror directors. She also produces and programs films for Severin Films, a boutique label specializing in cult and horror cinema.
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.
Janisse was a producer on Mike Malloy’s feature documentary Eurocrime: the Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the ’70s (2012), Sean Hogan’s short horror film We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea (2017) and Mike McKinlay’s short documentary Tights Worship: The Processes of The Rita (2019).
Kier-La Janisse is a Canadian horror expert and founder of The Miskatonic Institute. She has written books, produced and directed documentaries on various aspects of horror cinema, such as folk horror, quinqui films and Jean Rollin.
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Oct 21, 2022 · Politesse prevents no one from asking horror programmer, author, and filmmaker Kier-La Janisse this question explicitly, publicly. “I give them the stock answers: catharsis, empowerment, escapism and so on,” she wrote ten years ago, in the forward to her groundbreaking 2012 book, House of Psychotic Women .
Aug 19, 2022 · Long before her essential House of Psychotic Women was published by FAB Press in 2012, Kier-la Janisse's work as a writer, film festival programmer and proprietor of Montreal's...
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