Biography
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.
Filmography
Cast Credits

1000 Women in Horror
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2025

Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
Character:
MOVIE • 2024

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

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2021

Tales of the Uncanny
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2020

Eli Roth's History of Horror
Character: Self
TV • 2018

Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
Character: Herself
MOVIE • 2015

Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2014

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2014
Celluloid Horror
Character: Herself
MOVIE • 2004
The Stone Forest
Character: Narrator
MOVIE • TBA

Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
Character: Self
MOVIE • TBA
Crew
Crew Credits

The Occupant of the Room
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2025

The Occupant of the Room
Role: Screenplay
MOVIE • 2025

The Art of the Calendar
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2024

The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2023

The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2023
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2023

Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 2023

The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 2023

To Fire You Come at Last
Role: Executive Producer
MOVIE • 2023
The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 2021

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2021

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Role: Additional Editor
MOVIE • 2021

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2021

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 2021

Blood In The Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2021

Blood In The Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 2021

A Folk Horror Tale
Role: Script
MOVIE • 2021

Tales of the Uncanny
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 2020

S.W.A.L.K. II
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2020
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2019