Kier-La Janisse
Winnipeg, CanadaDirecting
Biography
Kier-La Janisse (born 1972) is a Canadian film producer, programmer, founder of international horror school The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, and author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi and House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films. Her feature directorial debut, the documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, was released in 2021.
Known For
Eli Roth's History of Horror
TV • 2018
1000 Women in Horror
MOVIE • 2025
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
MOVIE • 2014
Tales of the Uncanny
MOVIE • 2020
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
MOVIE • 2021
Celluloid Horror
MOVIE • 2004
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
MOVIE • 2014
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
MOVIE • 2023
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
MOVIE • 2015
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
MOVIE
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
MOVIE • 2024