Kier-La Janisse
Directing
Biography
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.
🎬 Movies (25)
The War Game at Cinecity
2026
Executive Producer
The Stone Forest
2025
Narrator
1000 Women in Horror
2025
Self
The Occupant of the Room
2025
Director
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2024
The Art of the Calendar
2024
Director
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
2023
Director
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
2023
Director
The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film
2023
Producer
Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon
2023
Producer
To Fire You Come at Last
2023
Executive Producer
I'm Not a Guru
2023
Executive Producer
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021
Director
Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
2021
Director
A Folk Horror Tale
2021
Script
The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio
2021
Producer
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
Self
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
2019
Director
Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita
2019
Producer
We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea
2017
Executive Producer
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
2015
Herself
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
Self
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014
Self
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
2012
Producer
Celluloid Horror
2004
Herself
