Kier-La Janisse
Known For
Directing
Gender
Female
Birthday
-
Place of Birth
Winnipeg, Canada
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.
Known For
| 2025 | The Stone ForestNarrator | |
| 2025 | 1000 Women in HorrorSelf | |
| 2024 | Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter | |
| 2023 | A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ ActressNarrator | |
| 2023 | The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura GemserNarrator | |
| 2021 | Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk HorrorSelf | |
| 2020 | Tales of the UncannySelf | |
| 2018 | Eli Roth's History of HorrorSelf | |
| 2015 | Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of CinépixHerself | |
| 2014 | Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. MoreauSelf | |
| 2014 | Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'Self | |
| 2004 | Celluloid HorrorHerself | |
| - | Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up DollSelf |
| 2025 | The Occupant of the RoomProducer | |
| 2023 | The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo FilmProducer | |
| 2023 | Ajita Wilson: An Elusive IconProducer | |
| 2023 | To Fire You Come at LastExecutive Producer | |
| 2021 | Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film PhenomenonProducer | |
| 2021 | Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk HorrorProducer | |
| 2021 | The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il DemonioProducer | |
| 2020 | Tales of the UncannyProducer | |
| 2019 | From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi FilmProducer | |
| 2019 | Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The RitaProducer | |
| 2017 | We Always Find Ourselves in the SeaExecutive Producer | |
| 2012 | Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70sProducer | |
| - | Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the BlueProducer | |
| - | Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up DollProducer |
| 2025 | The Occupant of the RoomDirector | |
| 2024 | The Art of the CalendarDirector | |
| 2024 | The Haunted SeasonDirector | |
| 2023 | The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura GemserDirector | |
| 2023 | A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ ActressDirector | |
| 2021 | Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film PhenomenonDirector | |
| 2021 | Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk HorrorDirector | |
| 2019 | From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi FilmDirector | |
| - | Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity CinemaDirector | |
| - | Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up DollDirector |
| 2025 | The Occupant of the RoomScreenplay | |
| 2024 | The Haunted SeasonWriter | |
| 2023 | The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura GemserWriter | |
| 2021 | Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk HorrorWriter | |
| - | Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the BlueWriter | |
| - | Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity CinemaAdaptation |
| 2021 | A Folk Horror TaleScript |