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.
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Winnipeg, Canada
Known for
- Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau (2014) — Self
- Eli Roth's History of Horror (2018) — Self
- Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021) — Self
- Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s (2012) — Producer
- Tales of the Uncanny (2020) — Self
- Celluloid Horror (2004) — Self
- 1000 Women in Horror (2025) — Self
- We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea (2017) — Executive Producer
- CAMP (2026) — Thanks
- Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix (2015) — Herself
- Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers' (2014) — Self
- From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film (2019) — Director
- A Folk Horror Tale (2021) — Script
- The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio (2021) — Producer
- I'm Not a Guru (2023) — Executive Producer
- The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser (2023) — Narrator