
Kier-La Janisse
Known for: Directing
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

The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
2023
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
2023

Celluloid Horror
2004

Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
2015

Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2024

The Stone Forest
2025

Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
Joan Collins: Queen Of The Horror Films
2026

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014

Tales of the Uncanny
2020

Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014

1000 Women in Horror
2025

Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021