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