Kier-La Janisse
Directing
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.
Filmography 20
Movies (18)
- Joan Collins: Queen Of The Horror Films2026Herself
The Occupant of the Room2025Directing
1000 Women in Horror2025Self
The Stone Forest2025Narrator
The Art of the Calendar2024Directing
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter2024
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser2023Narrator- A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress2023Narrator
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror2021Self
Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon2021Directing
Tales of the Uncanny2020Self- From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film2019Directing
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix2015Herself
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'2014Self
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau2014Self
Celluloid Horror2004Herself
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up DollSelf- Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity CinemaDirecting
Shows (2)
The Haunted Season2024Directing
Eli Roth's History of Horror2018Self