
Director
Kier-La Janisse
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.
Directed

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Director · 2021

The Haunted Season
Director · 2024
Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema
Director

The Occupant of the Room
Director · 2025
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
Director · 2019

Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
Director · 2021

The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
Director · 2023

The Art of the Calendar
Director · 2024
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
Director · 2023

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

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Self · 2014

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Self · 2021

Eli Roth's History of Horror
Self · 2018

Tales of the Uncanny
Self · 2020

Celluloid Horror
Herself · 2004

1000 Women in Horror
Self · 2025

Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
Self · 2014

Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
Herself · 2015

The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
Narrator · 2023

The Stone Forest
Narrator · 2025
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
Narrator · 2023

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

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Writer · 2021

The Haunted Season
Writer · 2024
Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema
Adaptation

The Occupant of the Room
Screenplay · 2025

The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
Writer · 2023
Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue
Writer