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
- Eli Roth's History of Horror (2018)
- Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021)
- Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
- 1000 Women in Horror (2025)
- Tales of the Uncanny (2020)
- Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers' (2014)
- The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser (2023)
- Celluloid Horror (2004)
- Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix (2015)
- Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
- Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter (2024)
- The Stone Forest (2025)