Kier-La Janisse
Known for: Directing
Born: —
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
31 movies · 2 TV shows, newest first
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The War Game at Cinecity
2026NR
Joan Collins: Queen Of The Horror Films
2026
8.0
CAMP
2026
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The Occupant of the Room
2025
6.6
1000 Women in Horror
2025
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The Stone Forest
2025
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The Art of the Calendar
2024
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The Haunted Season
2024
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Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2024NR
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
2023
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The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
2023
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Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon
2023
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The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film
202310.0
I'm Not a Guru
2023
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To Fire You Come at Last
202310.0
The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio
2021
7.6
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021
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Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
2021
4.0
A Folk Horror Tale
2021
7.0
Tales of the Uncanny
20208.0
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
2019
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Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita
2019
6.4
Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018
6.2
We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea
2017
5.0
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
2015
5.5
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014
6.7
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
7.7
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
2012
7.4
Celluloid Horror
2004
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Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
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Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue
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Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema
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The Fated Hour
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