Kier-La Janisse

Known For: Directing
Gender: Female
Place of Birth: Winnipeg, Canada
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.
2024
2023
Actor Narrator
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress

Actor Narrator
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser

Producer
The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film

Director
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser

Writer
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
Director
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress

Producer
Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon

Executive Producer
To Fire You Come at Last
2021

Actor Self
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Actor Narrator
The Devil Down Under: Satanic Panic in Australia from Rosaleen Norton to Alison's Birthday

Writer
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Additional Editor
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Director
Blood In The Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon

Producer
Blood In The Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon

Script
A Folk Horror Tale

Director
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Producer
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2020
2019
Director
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
Editor
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
Producer
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film

Producer
Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita