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.
Known For
Eli Roth's History of Horror
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Tales of the Uncanny
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
1000 Women in Horror
Celluloid Horror
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
All Movies (12)
- 1000 Women in Horror2025 · as Self
- The Stone Forest2025 · as Narrator
- Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter2024
- The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser2023 · as Narrator
- A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress2023 · as Narrator
- Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror2021 · as Self
- Tales of the Uncanny2020 · as Self
- Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix2015 · as Herself
- Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'2014 · as Self
- Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau2014 · as Self
- Celluloid Horror2004 · as Herself
- Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll— · as Self
All TV Shows (1)
- Eli Roth's History of Horror2018 · as Self