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
2018
CAMP
2026
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
1000 Women in Horror
2025
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
2012
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014
The Art of the Calendar
2024
The Fated Hour
2026
The Occupant of the Room
2025
I'm Not a Guru
2023

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
14
Directing
10
Writing
6
Producing
17
Editing
3
Crew
2
2026
Joan Collins: Queen Of The Horror Films
as Herself
2025
The Stone Forest
as Narrator
2025
1000 Women in Horror
as Self
2024
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2023
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
as Narrator
2023
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
as Narrator
2021
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
as Self
2020
Tales of the Uncanny
as Self
2018
Eli Roth's History of Horror
as Self
2015
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
as Herself
2014
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
as Self
2014
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
as Self
2004
Celluloid Horror
as Self
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
as Self