Loading
Director
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.
Known for
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror2021
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s2012
Tales of the Uncanny2020
We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea2017
CAMP2026
A Folk Horror Tale2021
The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film2023
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser2023
Filmography
- TBATake My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up DollFilmSelf, Director, Producer, Editor
- TBATerminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the BlueFilmProducer, Writer
- TBAKilling for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity CinemaFilmDirector, Adaptation
- 2026CAMPFilmThanks
- 2026Joan Collins: Queen Of The Horror FilmsFilmHerself
- 2026The War Game at CinecityFilmExecutive Producer
- 2026The Fated HourFilmExecutive Producer
- 20251000 Women in HorrorFilmSelf
- 2025The Stone ForestFilmNarrator
- 2025The Occupant of the RoomFilmDirector, Screenplay, Producer
- 2024Kier-La Janisse on CockfighterFilm
- 2024The Art of the CalendarFilmDirector
- 2024The Haunted SeasonSeriesDirector, Writer
- 2023I'm Not a GuruFilmExecutive Producer
- 2023The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura GemserFilmNarrator, Director, Writer
- 2023A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ ActressFilmNarrator, Director
- 2023The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo FilmFilmProducer
- 2023Ajita Wilson: An Elusive IconFilmProducer
- 2023To Fire You Come at LastFilmExecutive Producer
- 2021Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk HorrorFilmSelf, Writer, Additional Editor, Director, Producer
- 2021A Folk Horror TaleFilmScript
- 2021The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il DemonioFilmProducer
- 2021Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film PhenomenonFilmDirector, Producer
- 2020Tales of the UncannyFilmSelf, Producer
- 2019From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi FilmFilmDirector, Producer, Editor
- 2019Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The RitaFilmProducer
- 2018Eli Roth's History of HorrorSeriesSelf
- 2017We Always Find Ourselves in the SeaFilmExecutive Producer
- 2015Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of CinépixFilmHerself
- 2014Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. MoreauFilmSelf
- 2014Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'FilmSelf
- 2012Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70sFilmProducer
- 2004Celluloid HorrorFilmSelf