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.
Filmography (26 movies)
10.0
10.0
The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio
2021
Producer
8.0
8.0
S.W.A.L.K. II
2020
Writer
7.7
7.7
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
2012
Producer
7.5
7.5
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021
Director
7.1
7.1
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
Producer
7.0
7.0
Celluloid Horror
2004
as Herself
6.7
6.7
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
as Self
6.5
6.5
1000 Women in Horror
2025
as Self
6.2
6.2
We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea
2017
Executive Producer
5.5
5.5
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014
as Self
5.0
5.0
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
2015
as Herself
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
TBA
Producer
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
2023
Writer
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
2023
Director
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2024
The Stone Forest
2025
as Narrator
To Fire You Come at Last
2023
Executive Producer
The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film
2023
Producer
Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon
2023
Producer
Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema
TBA
Director
The Art of the Calendar
2024
Director
The Occupant of the Room
2025
Screenplay
Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita
2019
Producer
Blood In The Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
2021
Producer
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
2019
Producer
Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue