Kier-La Janisse

Known for: 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.

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Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

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Kier-La Janisse

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Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress

The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser

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

Celluloid Horror

Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix

Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'

Tales of the Uncanny

Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter

The Stone Forest

1000 Women in Horror

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

Eli Roth's History of Horror

Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s

The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film

Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon

From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film

Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue

A Folk Horror Tale

Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema

We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea

To Fire You Come at Last

Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita

The Art of the Calendar