Kier-La Janisse
- Known for
- Directing
- Birthplace
- 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.
Known For
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Eli Roth's History of Horror
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
Tales of the Uncanny
Celluloid Horror
1000 Women in Horror
CAMP
We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
A Folk Horror Tale
Filmography
Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema
Movie · Director
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
Movie · Director
The Occupant of the Room
Movie · Director
The Art of the Calendar
Movie · Director
The Haunted Season
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
Movie · Director
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
Movie · Director
Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
Movie · Director
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Movie · Director
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
Movie · Director