KierLa Janisse 1972 is a Canadian film writer programmer and producer founder of international horror school The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies and author of A Violent Professional The Films of Luciano Rossi FAB Press 2007 and House of Psychotic Women An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films FAB Press 2012 Her first feature film as directorproducer Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched A History of Folk Horror is due out from Severin Films in 2021