Kier-La Janisse
- Known for
- Directing
- Movies
- 25
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.
Upcoming Kier-La Janisse Movies
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
Release date TBA
Best-Known Movies
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
2012
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
Celluloid Horror
2004
1000 Women in Horror
2025
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
2015
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
2023
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2024
Filmography
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2025 | The Occupant of the Room | Director, Screenplay, Producer |
| 2024 | The Art of the Calendar | Director |
| 2023 | The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser | Director, Writer |
| 2023 | A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress | Director |
| 2023 | Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon | Producer |
| 2023 | The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film | Producer |
| 2021 | The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio | Producer |
| 2021 | Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 2021 | Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon | Director, Producer |
| 2020 | Tales of the Uncanny | Producer |
| 2019 | From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film | Director, Producer |
| 2019 | Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita | Producer |
| 2012 | Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s | Producer |
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