Directing
Kier-La Janisse
Winnipeg, Canada
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.
Filmography
6.6
1000 Women in Horror
2025·Documentary
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The Stone Forest
2025·Documentary
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Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2024·Documentary
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The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
2023·Documentary
7.6
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021·Documentary
7.0
Tales of the Uncanny
2020·Documentary
5.0
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
2015·Documentary
5.5
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014·Documentary
6.7
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014·Documentary
7.4
Celluloid Horror
2004·Documentary
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Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
·Documentary