Kier-La Janisse
- Directing
- Winnipeg, Canada
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.
Known for
Filmography
- The Fated Hour · Executive producer
- The War Game at Cinecity · Executive producer
- Joan Collins: Queen Of The Horror Films · Self
- CAMP · Thanks
- The Occupant of the Room · Director, Screenplay
- 1000 Women in Horror · Self
- The Stone Forest · Narrator
- The Art of the Calendar · Director
- The Haunted Season · Director, Writer
- Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
- The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser · Narrator, Director
- A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress · Narrator, Director
- Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon · Producer
- The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film · Producer
- I'm Not a Guru · Executive producer
- To Fire You Come at Last · Executive producer
- The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio · Producer
- Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror · Self, Writer
- Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon · Director, Producer
- A Folk Horror Tale · Script
- Tales of the Uncanny · Self, Producer
- From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film · Director, Producer
- Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita · Producer
- Eli Roth's History of Horror · Self
- We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea · Executive producer
- Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix · Self
- Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers' · Self
- Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau · Self
- Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s · Producer
- Celluloid Horror · Self
- Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll · Self, Director
- Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue · Writer, Producer
- Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema · Director, Adaptation