
Kier-La Janisse
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.
Movie Appearances

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
as Self
2021
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
as Narrator
2023

The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
as Narrator
2023

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
as Self
2014

Celluloid Horror
as Herself
2004

Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
as Herself
2015

Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
as Self
2014

Tales of the Uncanny
as Self
2020

Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2024

The Stone Forest
as Narrator
2025

1000 Women in Horror
as Self
2025

Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
as Self
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