Kier-La Janisse

from Winnipeg, Canada

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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.

Timeline

2026

  • Poster for The War Game at Cinecity

    Executive Producer

2025

  • Poster for The Stone Forest

    Narrator

  • Poster for 1000 Women in Horror

    Self

  • Poster for The Occupant of the Room

    Producer

2024

  • Poster for Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Art of the Calendar

    Director

2023

2020

  • Poster for Tales of the Uncanny

    Self

2017

  • Poster for We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea

    Executive Producer

2015

  • Poster for Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix

    Herself

2014

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

    Self

  • Poster for Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'

    Self

2012

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

    Producer

2004

  • Poster for Celluloid Horror

    Herself