
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

2018
Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018 · tv

2014
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014 · movie

2020
Tales of the Uncanny
2020 · movie

2025
1000 Women in Horror
2025 · movie

2021
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021 · movie

2004
Celluloid Horror
2004 · movie

2014
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014 · movie

2023
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
2023 · movie

2015
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
2015 · movie

2025
The Stone Forest
2025 · movie

2024
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2024 · movie

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Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
— · movie