Acting credits
11
Active
Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
Kier-La Janisse
Directing
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 22Series: 1Crew credits: 16
TMDB ID: 1086886
IMDb ID: nm1822899
Known for: Directing
Place of birth: Winnipeg, Canada
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 2004 - 2025
Years active: 22
Average TMDB rating: 6.93
Wikidata: Q106684647
Other jobs
Director (6)Producer (5)Executive Producer (2)Writer (2)Script (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.
The Occupant of the Room
Director
2025 Movie
6.5
1000 Women in Horror
as Self
2025 Movie
The Art of the Calendar
Director
2024 Movie
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2024 Movie
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
as Narrator
2023 Movie
Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon
Producer
2023 Movie
The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film
Producer
2023 Movie
To Fire You Come at Last
Executive Producer
2023 Movie
7.6
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
as Self
2021 Movie
Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
Director
2021 Movie
4.0
A Folk Horror Tale
Script
2021 Movie
7.0
Tales of the Uncanny
as Self
2020 Movie
8.0
S.W.A.L.K. II
Writer
2020 Movie
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
Director
2019 Movie
Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita
Producer
2019 Movie
6.2
We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea
Executive Producer
2017 Movie
5.0
Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
as Herself
2015 Movie
5.5
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
as Self
2014 Movie
6.7
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
as Self
2014 Movie
7.7
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
Producer
2012 Movie
7.0
Celluloid Horror
as Herself
2004 Movie
Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
as Self
Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Kier-La Janisse.
