Person

Kier-La Janisse

Directing · 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.

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  Eli Roth's History of Horror

  Self

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  CAMP

  Thanks

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  Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

  Self

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  Tales of the Uncanny

  Self

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  1000 Women in Horror

  Self

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  Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

  Self

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  Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s

  Producer

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  The Fated Hour

  Executive Producer

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  The Haunted Season

  Director

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  The Art of the Calendar

  Director

• 2026The War Game at CinecityExecutive Producer
• 2026Joan Collins: Queen Of The Horror FilmsHerself
• 2026CAMPThanks
• 2025The Occupant of the RoomDirector
• 20251000 Women in HorrorSelf
• 2025The Stone ForestNarrator
• 2024The Art of the CalendarDirector
• 2024The Haunted SeasonDirector
• 2024Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
• 2023The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura GemserNarrator
• 2023A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ ActressNarrator
• 2023Ajita Wilson: An Elusive IconProducer
• 2023The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo FilmProducer
• 2023I'm Not a GuruExecutive Producer
• 2023To Fire You Come at LastExecutive Producer
• 2021The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il DemonioProducer
• 2021Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk HorrorSelf
• 2021Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film PhenomenonDirector
• 2021A Folk Horror TaleScript
• 2020Tales of the UncannySelf
• 2019From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi FilmDirector
• 2019Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The RitaProducer
• 2018Eli Roth's History of HorrorSelf
• 2017We Always Find Ourselves in the SeaExecutive Producer
• 2015Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of CinépixHerself
• 2014Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'Self
• 2014Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. MoreauSelf
• 2012Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70sProducer
• 2004Celluloid HorrorHerself
• —Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up DollSelf
• —Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the BlueWriter
• —Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity CinemaDirector
• —The Fated HourExecutive Producer