Kier-La Janisse
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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
Credits
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021)
as Self
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
as Self
Tales of the Uncanny (2020)
as Self
1000 Women in Horror (2025)
as Self
Celluloid Horror (2004)
as Herself
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser (2023)
as Narrator
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers' (2014)
as Self
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix (2015)
as Herself
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter (2024)
Actor
The Stone Forest (2025)
as Narrator
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress (2023)
as Narrator
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll (—)
as Self