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Kier-La Janisse

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
14

Gender
Female

Birthday
Birthday not available

Place of Birth
Winnipeg, Canada

Kier-La Janisse

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.

Production

2026The War Game at Cinecity...Executive Producer
2025The Occupant of the Room...Producer
2023Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon...Producer
2023The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film...Producer
2023I'm Not a Guru...Executive Producer
2023To Fire You Come at Last...Executive Producer
2021The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio...Producer
2021Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror...Producer
2021Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon...Producer
2020Tales of the Uncanny...Producer
2019From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film...Producer
2019Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita...Producer
2017We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea...Executive Producer
2012Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s...Producer
Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue...Producer
The Fated Hour...Executive Producer
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll...Producer

Crew

2026CAMP...Thanks
2021A Folk Horror Tale...Script

Directing

2025The Occupant of the Room...Director
2024The Art of the Calendar...Director
2024The Haunted Season...Director
2023The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser...Director
2023A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress...Director
2021Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror...Director
2021Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon...Director
2019From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film...Director
Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema...Director
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll...Director

Writing

2025The Occupant of the Room...Screenplay
2024The Haunted Season...Writer
2023The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser...Writer
2021Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror...Writer
Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue...Writer
Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema...Adaptation

Editing

2021Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror...Additional Editor
2019From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film...Editor
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll...Editor

Acting

2026Joan Collins: Queen Of The Horror Filmsas Herself
20251000 Women in Horroras Self
2025The Stone Forestas Narrator
2024Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighteras
2023The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemseras Narrator
2023A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actressas Narrator
2021Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horroras Self
2020Tales of the Uncannyas Self
2018Eli Roth's History of Horroras Self
2015Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépixas Herself
2014Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'as Self
2014Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreauas Self
2004Celluloid Horroras Herself
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Dollas Self