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Kier-La Janisse

Directing

  • Place of birth
  • Winnipeg, Canada

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.

As actor 14

Eli Roth's History of Horror poster
Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror poster
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau poster
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
Tales of the Uncanny poster
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
1000 Women in Horror poster
1000 Women in Horror
2025
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers' poster
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014
Celluloid Horror poster
Celluloid Horror
2004
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser poster
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
2023
Joan Collins: Queen Of The Horror Films
2026
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix poster
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
2015
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll poster
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter poster
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2024
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
2023
The Stone Forest poster
The Stone Forest
2025

On the crew 24

CAMP poster
CAMP
2026
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror poster
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s poster
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
2012
Tales of the Uncanny poster
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
The Haunted Season poster
The Haunted Season
2024
To Fire You Come at Last poster
To Fire You Come at Last
2023
The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film poster
The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film
2023
Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon poster
Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
2021
The Art of the Calendar poster
The Art of the Calendar
2024
I'm Not a Guru
2023
The Occupant of the Room poster
The Occupant of the Room
2025
The Fated Hour poster
The Fated Hour
2026
A Folk Horror Tale poster
A Folk Horror Tale
2021
We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea poster
We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea
2017
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser poster
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
2023
Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon poster
Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon
2023
The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio
2021
The War Game at Cinecity poster
The War Game at Cinecity
2026
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
2019
Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema
Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita poster
Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita
2019
Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll poster
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
2023