Director
Kier-La Janisse
Winnipeg, Canada · 18 films
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.
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Best known for
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014 · Self
On Plex
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021 · Self, Writer
On AMC+
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
2012 · Producer
On Plex
Tales of the Uncanny
2020 · Self, Producer
Celluloid Horror
2004 · Self
1000 Women in Horror
2025 · Self
On AMC+
Filmography 17
The Occupant of the Room
2025 · Director, Screenplay
1000 Women in Horror
2025 · Self
On AMC+
The Stone Forest
2025 · Narrator
The Art of the Calendar
2024 · Director
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2024 · Actor
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
2023 · Narrator, Director
Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon
2023 · Producer
The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film
2023 · Producer
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021 · Self, Writer
On AMC+
Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
2021 · Director, Producer
Tales of the Uncanny
2020 · Self, Producer
Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita
2019 · Producer
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
2015 · Herself
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014 · Self
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014 · Self
On Plex
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
2012 · Producer
On Plex
Celluloid Horror
2004 · Self