
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

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

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Tales of the Uncanny
2020 · Movie

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

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Celluloid Horror
2004 · Movie

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1000 Women in Horror
2025 · Movie

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

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

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

Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2024 · Movie

Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
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The Stone Forest
2025 · Movie