
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.
2026The Fated HourMovieExecutive Producer
2026The War Game at CinecityMovieExecutive Producer
2026CAMPMovieThanks
2025The Occupant of the RoomMovieDirector · Screenplay · Producer
20251000 Women in HorrorMovieas Self
2025The Stone ForestMovieas Narrator
2024The Art of the CalendarMovieDirector
2024The Haunted SeasonTV showDirector · Writer · 1 episodes
2024Kier-La Janisse on CockfighterMovie
2023The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura GemserMovieas Narrator · Director · Writer
2023Ajita Wilson: An Elusive IconMovieProducer
2023The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo FilmMovieProducer
2023To Fire You Come at LastMovieExecutive Producer
2021Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk HorrorMovieas Self · Writer · Additional Editor · Director · Producer
2021Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film PhenomenonMovieDirector · Producer
2021A Folk Horror TaleMovieScript
2020Tales of the UncannyMovieas Self · Producer
2019From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi FilmMovieDirector · Producer · Editor
2019Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The RitaMovieProducer
2018Eli Roth's History of HorrorTV showas Self · 1 episodes
2017We Always Find Ourselves in the SeaMovieExecutive Producer
2015Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of CinépixMovieas Herself
2014Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'Movieas Self
2014Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. MoreauMovieas Self
2012Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70sMovieProducer
2004Celluloid HorrorMovieas Self
—Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up DollMovieas Self · Director · Producer · Editor