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.
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Films
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TV Shows
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Crew Credits
Known For
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Eli Roth's History of Horror
as Self
2018
1000 Women in Horror
as Self
2025
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
as Self
2021
Tales of the Uncanny
as Self
2020
Celluloid Horror
as Herself
2004
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
as Self
2014
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
as Narrator
2023
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
as Herself
2015
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
as Self
2014
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2024
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
as Self
Behind the Camera
11 CreditsWoodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Writer, Director, Producer
2021
Tales of the Uncanny
Producer
2020
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
Producer
2012
The Art of the Calendar
Director
2024
Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
Director, Producer
2021
The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film
Producer
2023
The Occupant of the Room
Director
2025
Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita
Producer
2019
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
Director, Writer
2023
Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon
Producer
2023
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
Director, Producer