
Kier-La Janisse
View on IMDb ↗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
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Celluloid Horror
1000 Women in Horror
Tales of the Uncanny
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Eli Roth's History of Horror
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
The Stone Forest
Kier-La Janisse on CockfighterFilmography (14)
- 2026Joan Collins: Queen Of The Horror FilmsHerself
- 2025
1000 Women in HorrorSelf - 2025
The Stone ForestNarrator - 2024
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter - 2023
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura GemserNarrator - 2023A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ ActressNarrator
- 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
Crew (19)
- 2026The War Game at CinecityExecutive Producer
- 2026CAMPThanks
- 2025The Occupant of the RoomProducer
- 2024The Art of the CalendarDirector
- 2024The Haunted SeasonWriter
- 2023I'm Not a GuruExecutive Producer
- 2023The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo FilmProducer
- 2023Ajita Wilson: An Elusive IconProducer
- 2023To Fire You Come at LastExecutive Producer
- 2021The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il DemonioProducer
- 2021A Folk Horror TaleScript
- 2021Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film PhenomenonProducer
- 2019From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi FilmEditor
- 2019Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The RitaProducer
- 2017We Always Find Ourselves in the SeaExecutive Producer
- 2012Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70sProducer
- —Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the BlueWriter
- —Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity CinemaAdaptation
- —The Fated HourExecutive Producer