
Directing
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.
Credits · 16
FilmCAMP
2026 · Thanks
Film1000 Women in Horror
2025 · Self

The Haunted Season
2024 · Director
I'm Not a Guru
FilmI'm Not a Guru
2023 · Executive Producer
The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio
FilmThe Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio
2021 · Producer
FilmWoodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021 · Self
FilmA Folk Horror Tale
2021 · Script
FilmTales of the Uncanny
2020 · Self
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
FilmFrom the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
2019 · Director

Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018 · Self
FilmWe Always Find Ourselves in the Sea
2017 · Executive Producer
FilmRaw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
2015 · Herself
FilmParasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014 · Self
FilmLost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014 · Self
FilmEurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
2012 · Producer
FilmCelluloid Horror
2004 · Herself