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
TV
Eli Roth's History of Horror
Self
2018
Film
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Self
2014
Film
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
Narrator
2023
Film
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Self
2021
Film
Celluloid Horror
Herself
2004
Film
Tales of the Uncanny
Self
2020
Film
1000 Women in Horror
Self
2025
Film
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
Self
Film
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
Self
2014
Film
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
Narrator
2023
Film
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
Herself
2015
Film
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2024
Film
The Stone Forest
Narrator
2025
Filmography
2025Film1000 Women in Horroras Self2025FilmThe Stone Forestas Narrator2024FilmKier-La Janisse on Cockfighter2023FilmA Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actressas Narrator2023FilmThe Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemseras Narrator2021FilmWoodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horroras Self2020FilmTales of the Uncannyas Self2018TVEli Roth's History of Horroras Self2015FilmRaw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépixas Herself2014FilmParasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'as Self2014FilmLost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreauas Self2004FilmCelluloid Horroras Herself—FilmTake My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Dollas Self