
Kier-La Janisse
Directing
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

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

Tales of the Uncanny
Self

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Self

1000 Women in Horror
Self

Celluloid Horror
Herself

Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
Self

The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
Narrator

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

Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter

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


