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.
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Known For
Tales of the Uncanny
Eli Roth's History of Horror
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
Celluloid Horror
The Stone Forest
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
1000 Women in Horror
Acting History
2025
1000 Women in Horror as Self
2025The Stone Forest as Narrator
2024Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2023A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress as Narrator
2023The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser as Narrator
2021Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror as Self
2020Tales of the Uncanny as Self
2018Eli Roth's History of Horror as Self
2015Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix as Herself
2014Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers' as Self
2014Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau as Self
2004Celluloid Horror as Herself
—Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll as Self