Kier-La Janisse
Directing
Winnipeg, Canada
13
Acting Credits
8
Directed
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
Eli Roth's History of Horror
Self
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Self
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Self
Tales of the Uncanny
Self
1000 Women in Horror
Self
The Occupant of the Room
Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
Filmography
Joan Collins: Queen Of The Horror Films
2026
as Herself
The Stone Forest
2025
as Narrator
1000 Women in Horror
2025
as Self
6.8
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2024
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
2023
as Narrator
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
2023
as Narrator
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021
as Self
7.6
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
as Self
7
Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018
as Self
6.4
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
2015
as Herself
5
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
as Self
6.7
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014
as Self
5.5
Celluloid Horror
2004
as Herself
7.4