Acting credits
12
Active
Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
Kier-La Janisse
Directing
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 24Series: 2Crew credits: 18
TMDB ID: 1086886
IMDb ID: nm1822899
Known for: Directing
Place of birth: Winnipeg, Canada
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 2004 - 2026
Years active: 23
Average TMDB rating: 6.87
Wikidata: Q106684647
Other jobs
Director (7)Producer (5)Executive Producer (3)Script (1)Thanks (1)Writer (1)
Biography
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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Kier-La Janisse.
Executive Producer
The War Game at Cinecity
2026 • Movie
Thanks
CAMP
2026 • Movie
Director
The Occupant of the Room
2025 • Movie
as Self
1000 Women in Horror
2025 • Movie
as Narrator
The Stone Forest
2025 • Movie
Director
The Art of the Calendar
2024 • Movie
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2024 • Movie
as Narrator
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
2023 • Movie
Producer
Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon
2023 • Movie
Producer
The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film
2023 • Movie
Executive Producer
To Fire You Come at Last
2023 • Movie
as Self
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021 • Movie
Director
Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
2021 • Movie
Script
A Folk Horror Tale
2021 • Movie
as Self
Tales of the Uncanny
2020 • Movie
Director
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
2019 • Movie
Producer
Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita
2019 • Movie
Executive Producer
We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea
2017 • Movie
as Herself
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
2015 • Movie
as Self
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014 • Movie
as Self
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014 • Movie
Producer
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
2012 • Movie
as Herself
Celluloid Horror
2004 • Movie
as Self
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Kier-La Janisse.
