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Home/People/Kier-La Janisse
Kier-La Janisse profile photo
Place of Birth
Winnipeg, Canada
Known For
Directing
Gender
Female

Career Highlights

12
Movies
1
TV Shows
9
Directed
IMDb ProfileOfficial Website

Kier-La Janisse

Directing

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.
1000 Women in Horror poster

1000 Women in Horror

as Self
2025
The Stone Forest poster

The Stone Forest

as Narrator
2025
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter poster

Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter

Cast
2024
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser poster

The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser

as Narrator
2023
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress poster

A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress

as Narrator
2023
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror poster

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

as Self
2021
Tales of the Uncanny poster

Tales of the Uncanny

as Self
2020
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix poster

Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix

as Herself
2015
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers' poster

Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'

as Self
2014
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

as Self
2014
Celluloid Horror poster

Celluloid Horror

as Herself
2004
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll poster

Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll

as Self
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