Kier-La Janisse
Biography
Kier-La Janisse (1972-) is a Canadian film writer, programmer and producer, founder of international horror school The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies and author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (FAB Press, 2007) and House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (FAB Press, 2012). Her first feature film as director/producer, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror is due out from Severin Films in 2021.
Acting (8 movies)
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
2023
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
2015
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2024
1000 Women in Horror
2025
Directing (7 movies)
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
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021
The Art of the Calendar
2024
The Occupant of the Room
2025
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s | 2012 | Producer |
| We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea | 2017 | Executive Producer |
| Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita | 2019 | Producer |
| From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film | 2019 | Producer |
| S.W.A.L.K. II | 2020 | Writer |
| Tales of the Uncanny | 2020 | Producer |
| Blood In The Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon | 2021 | Producer |
| Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror | 2021 | Writer |
| Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror | 2021 | Producer |
| The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio | 2021 | Producer |
| To Fire You Come at Last | 2023 | Executive Producer |
| The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film | 2023 | Producer |
| The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser | 2023 | Writer |
| Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon | 2023 | Producer |
| The Occupant of the Room | 2025 | Screenplay |