Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse

Winnipeg, Canada

DIRECTING

Biography

Kier-La Janisse (1972-) is a Canadian film writer, programmer and producer, founder of international horror school The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies and author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (FAB Press, 2007) and House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (FAB Press, 2012). Her first feature film as director/producer, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror is due out from Severin Films in 2021.

Best known for:

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

Eli Roth's History of Horror

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s

Tales of the Uncanny

Celluloid Horror

We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea

Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'

Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix

S.W.A.L.K. II

A Folk Horror Tale

The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio

Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita

From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film

Blood In The Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon

To Fire You Come at Last

The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film

The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser

A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress

Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon

Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter

The Art of the Calendar

1000 Women in Horror

Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue

Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema

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