Kier-La Janisse
Known for
Directing
Birthplace
Winnipeg, Canada
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.
Best known work
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
2012
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
Celluloid Horror
2004
1000 Women in Horror
2025
We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea
2017
CAMP
2026
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
2015Filmography
TBA
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Dollas Self, Director, Producer, Editor
TBA
Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the BlueWriter, Producer
TBA
Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity CinemaDirector, Adaptation
TBA
The Fated HourExecutive Producer
2026
The War Game at CinecityExecutive Producer
2026
Joan Collins: Queen Of The Horror Filmsas Herself
2026
CAMPThanks
2025
The Occupant of the RoomDirector, Screenplay, Producer
2025
1000 Women in Horroras Self
2025
The Stone Forestas Narrator
2024
The Art of the CalendarDirector
2024
2024
2023
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemseras Narrator, Director, Writer
2023
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actressas Narrator, Director
2023
Ajita Wilson: An Elusive IconProducer
2023
2023
I'm Not a GuruExecutive Producer
2023
To Fire You Come at LastExecutive Producer
2021
2021
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horroras Self, Writer, Additional Editor, Director, Producer
2021
Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film PhenomenonDirector, Producer
2021
A Folk Horror TaleScript
2020
Tales of the Uncannyas Self, Producer
2019
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi FilmDirector, Producer, Editor