Kier-La Janisse
Director
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 Director
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
2023
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
2023
Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
2021
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
TBA
The Art of the Calendar
2024
The Occupant of the Room
2025
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
TBAFilmography
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
as Self 2014
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
1000 Women in Horror
as Self 2025
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
as Herself 2015
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
as Self 2014
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
as Narrator 2023
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
as Narrator 2023
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2024
The Stone Forest
as Narrator 2025