Kier-La Janisse

DirectingWinnipeg, Canada

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.

Kier-La Janisse

Known For

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Celluloid Horror

Tales of the Uncanny

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

1000 Women in Horror

Eli Roth's History of Horror

Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'

Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix

The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser

Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter

Filmography

The Occupant of the Room

1000 Women in Horror

The Art of the Calendar

Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter

The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser

Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon

The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film

To Fire You Come at Last

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon

A Folk Horror Tale

Tales of the Uncanny

S.W.A.L.K. II

Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita

Eli Roth's History of Horror

We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea

Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix

Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s

Celluloid Horror

Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll