Kier-La Janisse
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.
Known for
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film
To Fire You Come at Last
The Devil Down Under: Satanic Panic in Australia from Rosaleen Norton to Alison's Birthday
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Blood In The Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
A Folk Horror Tale
Tales of the Uncanny
S.W.A.L.K. II
Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita
Eli Roth's History of Horror
We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's “Island of Dr. Moreau”
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
Acting
Production
2019
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
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Directing
2019
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
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Writing
Editing
2019
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
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