Kier-La Janisse
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderFemale
Place of birthWinnipeg, Canada
Known credits33
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.
The War Game at Cinecity
2026 · Executive Producer
Joan Collins: Queen Of The Horror Films
2026 · Herself
CAMP
2026 · Thanks
The Occupant of the Room
2025 · Director
The Occupant of the Room
2025 · Screenplay
The Occupant of the Room
2025 · Producer
1000 Women in Horror
2025 · Self
The Stone Forest
2025 · Narrator
The Art of the Calendar
2024 · Director
The Haunted Season
2024 · Director
The Haunted Season
2024 · Writer
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2024
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
2023 · Narrator
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
2023 · Narrator
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
2023 · Director
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
2023 · Writer
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
2023 · Director
Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon
2023 · Producer
The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film
2023 · Producer
I'm Not a Guru
2023 · Executive Producer
To Fire You Come at Last
2023 · Executive Producer
The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio
2021 · Producer
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021 · Self
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021 · Writer
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021 · Additional Editor
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021 · Director
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021 · Producer
Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
2021 · Director
Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
2021 · Producer
A Folk Horror Tale
2021 · Script
Tales of the Uncanny
2020 · Self
Tales of the Uncanny
2020 · Producer
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
2019 · Director
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
2019 · Producer
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
2019 · Editor
Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita
2019 · Producer
Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018 · Self
We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea
2017 · Executive Producer
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
2015 · Herself
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014 · Self
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014 · Self
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
2012 · Producer
Celluloid Horror
2004 · Herself
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
Self
Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue
Producer
Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue
Writer
Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema
Director
Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema
Adaptation
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