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.

Cast

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Self

The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser

Narrator

A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress

Narrator

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

Self

Celluloid Horror

Herself

Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix

Herself

Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'

Self

Tales of the Uncanny

Self

Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter

Unknown

The Stone Forest

Narrator

1000 Women in Horror

Self

Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll

Self

Crew

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Writer, Additional Editor, Director, Producer

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

Producer

S.W.A.L.K. II

Writer

The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film

Producer

The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser

Director, Writer

A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress

Director

Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon

Producer

Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon

Director, Producer

From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film

Director, Producer, Editor

Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue

Producer, Writer

A Folk Horror Tale

Script

Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema

Director, Adaptation

We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea

Executive Producer

To Fire You Come at Last

Executive Producer

Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita

Producer

Tales of the Uncanny

Producer

The Art of the Calendar

Director

The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio

Producer

The Occupant of the Room

Director, Screenplay

Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll

Director, Producer, Editor