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Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse

Director·Winnipeg, Canada

11 horror credits

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.

Director4 films

The Occupant of the Room

The Occupant of the Room

Director

2025
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Director

2021 4.5
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film

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

Director

2019
Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema

Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema

Director

Writer3 films

The Occupant of the Room

The Occupant of the Room

Screenplay

2025
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Writer

2021 4.5
Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue

Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue

Writer

Producer7 films

The Occupant of the Room

The Occupant of the Room

Producer

2025
To Fire You Come at Last

To Fire You Come at Last

Executive Producer

2023
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Producer

2021 4.5
Tales of the Uncanny

Tales of the Uncanny

Producer

2020
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film

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

Producer

2019
We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea

We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea

Executive Producer

2017
Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue

Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue

Producer

Editor1 film

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

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

Editor

2019

Actor4 films

1000 Women in Horror

1000 Women in Horror

Self

2025 2.0
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Self

2021 4.5
Tales of the Uncanny

Tales of the Uncanny

Self

2020
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

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

Self

2014 3.3

Other Crew3 films

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Additional Editor

2021 4.5
A Folk Horror Tale

A Folk Horror Tale

Script

2021
Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema

Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema

Adaptation