Kier-La Janisse
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.
Personal Details
Movies (24)
The Occupant of the Room
Director (Directing)
2025
1000 Women in Horror
as Self
2025
The Stone Forest
as Narrator
2025
The Art of the Calendar
Director (Directing)
2024
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2024
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
as Narrator
2023
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
as Narrator
2023
Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon
Producer (Production)
2023
The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film
Producer (Production)
2023
To Fire You Come at Last
Executive Producer (Production)
2023
The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio
Producer (Production)
2021
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
as Self
2021
Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
Director (Directing)
2021
A Folk Horror Tale
Script (Crew)
2021
Tales of the Uncanny
as Self
2020
S.W.A.L.K. II
Writer (Writing)
2020
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
Director (Directing)
2019
Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita
Producer (Production)
2019
We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea
Executive Producer (Production)
2017
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
as Herself
2015
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
as Self
2014
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
as Self
2014
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
Producer (Production)
2012
Celluloid Horror
as Herself
2004
