Kier-La Janisse

Directing·Winnipeg, Canada

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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.

Film	Credit
JJoan Collins: Queen Of The Horror Films2026 · Herself	Herself
The Occupant of the Room2025 · Director, Screenplay, Producer	Director, Screenplay, Producer
1000 Women in Horror2025 · Self	Self
The Stone Forest2025 · Narrator	Narrator
The Art of the Calendar2024 · Director	Director
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter2024 · Actor	Actor
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser2023 · Narrator, Director, Writer	Narrator, Director, Writer
AA Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress2023 · Narrator, Director	Narrator, Director
Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon2023 · Producer	Producer
The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film2023 · Producer	Producer
TThe Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio2021 · Producer	Producer
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror2021 · Self, Writer, Director, Producer	Self, Writer, Director, Producer
Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon2021 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Tales of the Uncanny2020 · Self, Producer	Self, Producer
FFrom the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film2019 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita2019 · Producer	Producer
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix2015 · Herself	Herself
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'2014 · Self	Self
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau2014 · Self	Self
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s2012 · Producer	Producer
Celluloid Horror2004 · Herself	Herself
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up DollSelf, Director, Producer	Self, Director, Producer
TTerminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the BlueProducer, Writer	Producer, Writer
KKilling for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity CinemaDirector	Director