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Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse

Producer, director, writer and actor · Born October 3, 1972 (54) · 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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Biography from TMDB.

Born
October 3, 1972 (54)
From
Winnipeg, Canada
Works as
Producer, director, writer and actor
Titles
7 on MovieCove · 28 credits in all
Links
IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Official site (opens in a new tab)Wikidata (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 156 days to Oct 27Up 5% in 30 days

What are Kier-La Janisse's films like?

Across their 8 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Ideas.

Themes

share of theme weight
Society
48%
Ideas
28%
Self
15%
Survival
9%
Legacy4 titles, browse their movies with this themeArt4 titles, browse their movies with this themeCommunity2 titles, browse their movies with this themeTradition vs change2 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 7 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Light: How heavy the subject matter and outlook get. Browse their light movies.
Tone · Weight
lightdark

Light 5 · Serious 1 · Dark 1

Grounded: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their grounded movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

Grounded 5 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 0

Gentle: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their gentle movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

Gentle 4 · Charged 3 · Intense 0

Steady: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their steady movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

Steady 6 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 0

Some laughs: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their some laughs movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 4 · Funny 0

Slow burn: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their slow burn movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

A split, not a type: Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 4 · Relentless 0

Engaged: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their engaged movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

Casual 3 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 1

Resolved: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their resolved movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

Resolved 6 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 0

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Contemplative
6
Warm
5
Dread
2
Melancholic
2
Tense
2
Other
5

How their films linger

Rousing3 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteThought-provoking3 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteFun2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHaunting2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHopeful2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteWistful2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end · 1 with a twist

  • Happy1
  • Bittersweet4
  • Ambiguous3

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Kier-La Janisse's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 5 of their 7 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Kier-La Janisse's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

28 credits, 7 with a MovieCove page; 7 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

  • The War Game at Cinecity (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)

    Executive Producer

  • Camp(2025)

    Thanks

    Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all films

  • The Occupant of the Room (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

    Director · Producer · Screenplay

  • The Stone Forest (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

    as Narrator

  • Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol(2025)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films

  • The Art of the Calendar (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)

    Director

  • The Haunted Season(2023)

    Show 1 episode · Director · Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 22nd percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)

  • Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)

    Actor

  • Suzzanna: The Queen of Black Magic(2024)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films

  • A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

    Director · as Narrator

  • Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

    Producer

  • The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

    Director · Writer · as Narrator

  • The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

    Producer

  • I'm Not a Guru (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

    Executive Producer

  • To Fire You Come at Last (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

    Executive Producer

  • The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)

    Producer

  • Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror(2021)

    Director · Additional Editor · Producer · Writer · as Self

    Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films

  • Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)

    Director · Producer

  • A Folk Horror Tale (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)

    Script

  • Tales of the Uncanny(2020)

    Producer · as Self

    Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films

  • From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

    Director · Editor · Producer

  • Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

    Producer

  • We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Executive Producer

  • Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s(2012)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films

  • Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Director · Adaptation

  • Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Director · Editor · Producer · as Self

  • Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Producer · Writer

  • The Fated Hour (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Executive Producer

Career shape

A full career of 26 titles, 22 of them dated from 2012 to 2026.

Highest rated

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021)

Midcredits 95th

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting4 of 26: 2 only acting, 2 with another roleDirecting10 of 26: 1 only directing, 9 with another roleWriting6 of 26: 0 only writing, 6 with another roleProducing17 of 26: 11 only producing, 6 with another roleEditing3 of 26: 0 only editing, 3 with another roleOther crew2 of 26: 2 only other crew, 0 with another role

26 titles, 10 with more than one role — producing and directing overlap on 5 of them.

By decade

2010s4 · crew2020s18 · 4 acting · 16 crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it.

How do Kier-La Janisse's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 81st percentile, the median of all 6; across their 7 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 86th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

86thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 7

Approval · how many liked their films

79thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 7

Reach · how many have seen their films

59thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 7

Midcredits score across 7 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up4
  • 50th to 74th1
  • 25th to 49th1
  • Below 25th1

Shape of the crowd

3 of their 7 titles are Mixed.

  • Universally Loved2
  • Crowd Pleaser1
  • Broadly Agreed1
  • Mixed3

Most divisive · producer

Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol (2025)

59th percentile spread · 11% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · actor, director, writer, producer, editor

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021)

Midcredits 95th · 81% liked

Reviewers score the atmosphere 66/100 and the pacing 46/100 in their films, across 6 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Who does Kier-La Janisse work with?

People who share at least 2 of Kier-La Janisse's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; David Gregory shares the most, 6.

Directors

  • David Gregory6 titles · 4 as director    See all 6 shared titles with David Gregory

Actors

Composers

Producers

Mixed roles