Kier-La Janisse
- Known for
- Directing
- Birthplace
- 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.
Filmography
- Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema
Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema TBA
Director, Adaptation
- Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue
Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue TBA
Writer, Producer
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll TBA
as Self, Director, Producer, Editor
The Fated Hour 2026
Executive Producer
The War Game at Cinecity 2026
Executive Producer
- Joan Collins: Queen Of The Horror Films
Joan Collins: Queen Of The Horror Films 2026
as Herself
CAMP 2026
Thanks
The Occupant of the Room 2025
Director, Screenplay, Producer
1000 Women in Horror 2025
as Self
The Stone Forest 2025
as Narrator
The Art of the Calendar 2024
Director
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter 2024
Actor
Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon 2023
Producer
- A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress 2023
as Narrator, Director
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser 2023
as Narrator, Director, Writer
The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film 2023
Producer
- I'm Not a Guru
I'm Not a Guru 2023
Executive Producer
To Fire You Come at Last 2023
Executive Producer
- The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio
The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio 2021
Producer
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror 2021
as Self, Writer, Additional Editor, Director, Producer
Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon 2021
Director, Producer
A Folk Horror Tale 2021
Script
Tales of the Uncanny 2020
as Self, Producer
- From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film 2019
Director, Producer, Editor
Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita 2019
Producer
We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea 2017
Executive Producer
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix 2015
as Herself
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers' 2014
as Self
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau 2014
as Self
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s 2012
Producer
Celluloid Horror 2004
as Self
Credits from TMDB.