Kier-La Janisse
Directing
From
Winnipeg, 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.
Known For
6.7
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Self
7.6
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Self
7.0
1000 Women in Horror
Self
7.0
Tales of the Uncanny
Self
5.5
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
Self
7.0
Celluloid Horror
Herself
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
Narrator
5.0
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
Herself
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
Self
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
Filmography — Acting
6.7
2014
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Self
7.6
2021
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Self
7.0
2025
1000 Women in Horror
Self
7.0
2020
Tales of the Uncanny
Self
5.5
2014
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
Self
7.0
2004
Celluloid Horror
Herself
2023
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
Narrator
5.0
2015
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
Herself
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
Self
2024
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2023
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
Narrator
2025
The Stone Forest
Narrator
Filmography — Crew
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Writer
Tales of the Uncanny
Producer
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
Producer
The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio
Producer
Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
Director
The Occupant of the Room
Director
Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema
Director
The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film
Producer
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
Director
The Art of the Calendar
Director
Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon
Producer
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
Director
Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita
Producer
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
Director
Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue
Writer
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
Director