Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, producer, former programmer, and founder of horror school The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. She is the author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and contributed to Recovering 1940s Horror: Traces of a Lost Decade (2014) The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul (2015), We Are the Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale (2017) and Refocus: The Films of Roberta Findlay (2023). She co-edited (with Paul Corupe) and published (via her imprint Spectacular Optical) the anthology books Kid Power! (2014), Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015), Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin (2017) and Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television (2017). She edited the book Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and her first film as director/producer, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror was released by Severin Films in 2021.


Upcoming Lectures

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  • Previous Lectures

    INTRODUCTION TO HORROR FILM CRITICISM FOR TEENS INTRODUCTION TO HORROR FILM CRITICISM FOR TEENS
    Tue. Oct. 5, 2010 - Tue. Oct. 12, 2010 - 6:00 pm GMT - 9:00 pm GMT
    ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARK: THE ITALIAN GIALLO FILM ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARK: THE ITALIAN GIALLO FILM
    Tue. Feb. 15, 2011 - Tue. Mar. 1, 2011 - 6:00 pm GMT - 9:00 pm GMT
    GETTING EVEN: A HISTORY OF THE RAPE REVENGE FILM GETTING EVEN: A HISTORY OF THE RAPE REVENGE FILM
    Mon. Jun. 6, 2011 - Mon. Jun. 13, 2011 - 6:00 pm GMT - 9:00 pm GMT
    SCHOOL OF SHOCK: PAIN AND PLEASURE IN THE CLASSROOM SAFETY FILM SCHOOL OF SHOCK: PAIN AND PLEASURE IN THE CLASSROOM SAFETY FILM
    Mon. Oct. 15, 2012 - Mon. Oct. 22, 2012 - 7:00 pm GMT - 10:00 pm GMT
    FRAGMENTS OF THE MONSTER: RECOVERING FORTIES HORROR FRAGMENTS OF THE MONSTER: RECOVERING FORTIES HORROR
    Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 - Mon. Dec. 3, 2012 - 7:00 pm GMT - 10:00 pm GMT
    A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS: A BRITISH HOLIDAY HORROR TRADITION A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS: A BRITISH HOLIDAY HORROR TRADITION
    Mon. Dec. 10, 2012 - 7:00 pm GMT - 10:00 pm GMT
    SMALL SCREENS, BIG CHILLS: CLASSIC AMERICAN TV HORROR SMALL SCREENS, BIG CHILLS: CLASSIC AMERICAN TV HORROR
    Tue. Jan. 22, 2013 - Tue. Feb. 26, 2013 - 12:00 am GMT
    School of Shock: Pain and Pleasure in the Classroom Safety Film School of Shock: Pain and Pleasure in the Classroom Safety Film
    Thu. Jan. 8, 2015 - 7:00 pm GMT - 10:00 pm GMT
    SATANIC PANIC: POP-CULTURAL PARANOIA IN THE 1980s SATANIC PANIC: POP-CULTURAL PARANOIA IN THE 1980s
    Thu. Oct. 8, 2015 - 7:00 pm GMT - 10:00 pm GMT
    Live From Miskatonic: In Conversation with Jack Ketchum (NYC) Live From Miskatonic: In Conversation with Jack Ketchum (NYC)
    Wed. Sep. 21, 2016 - 12:00 am GMT - 10:00 pm GMT
    Tele-terrors: The Real and Imagined Horrors Inside the Made for Television Movie Tele-terrors: The Real and Imagined Horrors Inside the Made for Television Movie
    Thu. Apr. 20, 2017 - 7:00 pm GMT - 10:00 pm GMT
    YULETIDE TERROR: Christmas Horror on Film and Television (NYC) YULETIDE TERROR: Christmas Horror on Film and Television (NYC)
    Tue. Dec. 12, 2017 - 7:00 pm GMT - 10:00 pm GMT
    What the Fest?! Screening: GHOST STORIES (NYC) What the Fest?! Screening: GHOST STORIES (NYC)
    Sat. Mar. 31, 2018 - 12:00 am GMT
    School of Shock: Pain and Pleasure in the Classroom Safety Film (LA) School of Shock: Pain and Pleasure in the Classroom Safety Film (LA)
    Thu. Nov. 29, 2018 - 7:30 pm GMT - 10:30 pm GMT
    HORROR EXPRESS BUS TOUR - FANTASIA EDITION (Montreal) HORROR EXPRESS BUS TOUR - FANTASIA EDITION (Montreal)
    Wed. Jul. 17, 2019 - 10:00 am GMT
    Screening: TENEMENT (Los Angeles) Screening: TENEMENT (Los Angeles)
    Tue. Aug. 13, 2019 - 9:00 pm GMT - 11:00 pm GMT
    Screening: THE KIRLIAN WITNESS (Los Angeles) Screening: THE KIRLIAN WITNESS (Los Angeles)
    Sun. Aug. 25, 2019 - 6:00 pm GMT - 9:00 pm GMT
    Ever Present: MOTHER EARTH'S PLANTASIA (Los Angeles) Ever Present: MOTHER EARTH'S PLANTASIA (Los Angeles)
    Sat. Sep. 7, 2019 - 3:00 pm GMT - 9:00 pm GMT
    MURDER SEASON: CRIME-SOLVING PLANTS AND OTHER VEGETAL HORRORS (Los Angeles) MURDER SEASON: CRIME-SOLVING PLANTS AND OTHER VEGETAL HORRORS (Los Angeles)
    Thu. Sep. 12, 2019 - 7:30 pm GMT - 10:00 pm GMT