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Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse

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

1000 Women in Horror
1000 Women in Horror
2025 • Self
The Stone Forest
The Stone Forest
2025 • Narrator
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2024
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
2023 • Narrator
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
2023 • Narrator
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021 • Self
Tales of the Uncanny
Tales of the Uncanny
2020 • Self
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
2015 • Herself

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Kier-La Janisse – Biography, Known For & Filmography