Kier-La Janisse

Personal Info

Birthday

Place of Birth

Winnipeg, Canada

Kier-La Janisse

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

The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser

A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress

The Stone Forest

Filmography

2025
1000 Women in Horror
as Self
The Stone Forest
as Narrator
2023
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
as Narrator
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
as Narrator
2021
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
as Self
2020
Tales of the Uncanny
as Self
2015
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
as Herself
2014
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
as Self
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
as Self
2004
Celluloid Horror
as Herself