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Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse

Winnipeg, Canada

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
1000 Women in Horror poster
1000 Women in Horror
2025 • Self
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The Stone Forest
2025 • Narrator
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter poster
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2024
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A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
2023 • Narrator
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser poster
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
2023 • Narrator
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror poster
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021 • Self
Tales of the Uncanny poster
Tales of the Uncanny
2020 • Self
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix poster
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
2015 • Herself
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers' poster
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014 • Self
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau poster
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014 • Self
Celluloid Horror poster
Celluloid Horror
2004 • Herself
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll poster
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
— • Self