Kier-La Janisse
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.
10 directing credits · 13 acting credits
Directing · 10
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021
Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
2021
The Haunted Season
2024
Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema
—
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
2019
The Occupant of the Room
2025
The Art of the Calendar
2024
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
2023
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
2023
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
—
Acting · 13
Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
1000 Women in Horror
2025
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014
Celluloid Horror
2004
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2024
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
2015
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
2023
The Stone Forest
2025
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
2023
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
—