Kier-La Janisse
Director
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.
Place of BirthWinnipeg, Canada
Known For
Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
Documentary
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Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
DocumentaryHistory
The Haunted Season
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The Occupant of the Room
Horror
The Art of the Calendar
Documentary
Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema
Documentary
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
Documentary
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
DocumentaryFantasy
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
Documentary
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
Documentary