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.

Kier-La Janisse

Directing Winnipeg, Canada

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

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

Self

Tales of the Uncanny

Self

1000 Women in Horror

Self

Joan Collins: Queen Of The Horror Films

Herself

Celluloid Horror

Self

Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'

Self

The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser

Narrator

Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix

Herself

Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll

Self

Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter