
Kier-La Janisse
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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
Credits

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
as Self

1000 Women in Horror (2025)
as Self

Tales of the Uncanny (2020)
as Self

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021)
as Self
Joan Collins: Queen Of The Horror Films (2026)
as Herself

Celluloid Horror (2004)
as Herself

The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser (2023)
as Narrator

Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix (2015)
as Herself
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress (2023)
as Narrator

The Stone Forest (2025)
as Narrator

Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll (—)
as Self

Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter (2024)
Actor

Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers' (2014)
as Self




