Kier-La Janisse

Known for DirectingWinnipeg, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

I'm Not a Guru

The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio

Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Celluloid Horror

1000 Women in Horror

Tales of the Uncanny

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

Eli Roth's History of Horror

We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea

Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'

Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix

A Folk Horror Tale

The War Game at Cinecity

The Stone Forest

The Occupant of the Room

Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter

The Art of the Calendar

The Haunted Season

The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser

A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress

The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film

Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon

To Fire You Come at Last

Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon

From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film

Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita

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

Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue

Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema