House of Psychotic Women (Paperback): An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films

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For those of you who have already read House of Psychotic Women, the massive exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films, then you may already be familiar with a couple of titles in this new box set. I’d be remiss not to mention that each film in this set offers its own unique representation of female madness, perfectly coupled to the book but also giving added weight to Janisse’s exacting analysis. And if you haven’t received the hint already, all four films contain the kind of confrontational imagery that the book excelled at depicting both visually and mentally. People love this book. Why? It talks about life and art in an unusual, provocative way. Kier-La Janisse doesn’t kid around. For her, movies are a matter of life and death. House of Psychotic Women is an original, singular creation. Nothing like it existed before and certainly nothing since. Cherish this book, argue with it, throw it against the wall. But let it get under your skin... invade your bloodstream. It may change you.”

House of Psychotic Women (Paperback): An Autobiographical

Cinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen. Unlike her male counterpart, the female neurotic lives a shamed existence, making these films rare places where her destructive emotions get to play. House of Psychotic Women is an examination of these characters through a daringly autobiographical lens. Anecdotes and memories interweave with film history, criticism, trivia and confrontational imagery to create a personal history and a celebration of female madness, onscreen and off. House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films by Kier-la Janisse – eBook Details High Priestess of Horror Kier-La Janisse has crafted the definitive encyclopedia of female neurosis as depicted in horror cinema and the many ways it paralleled her own trauma zones. Beautifully written, extremely well researched and lush with gorgeous film stills and posters – a masterpiece." A fair ways into the movie, she flies off to Rome, Italy for no obvious reason only to then start to act stranger than we've seen her act in the movie to this point. She becomes increasingly obsessed with pictures and textures and, seemingly, her own physical presence and tangible persona. Despite the fact that her behavior is clearly odd, she isn't hurting anyone and on one seems to pay her much mind. While all of this is going on, political unrest in Italy starts to hit its boiling point and Lise is almost killed when a terrorist plot is unleashed nearby. Making matters worse, she's sexually assaulted in a car shortly after. Nilsen, Lars (April 2020). Warped and Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive. Mondo. ISBN 978-1-7333336-2-7.This disc also includes Light Of The Moon — An Interview With Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro that runs for an hour and eighteen minutes. This lengthy and in-depth discussion goes over how he came to work in the industry thanks to his father's position as a cameraman, meeting people who he would form lifelong friendships with, getting his start in the business, meeting Bazzoni and coming to work with him, the state of Italy at this period in time and how it affected different projects, working with Corbucci and Franco Nero, becoming part of a group of filmmakers all interested in putting their creativity on screen. As the piece goes on, he talks about working with Franco Rossi, moving on from doing shorts to features, making the move from camera operator to cinematographer, what he tried to bring to various projects with his compositions, the importance of collaboration and the specifics of shooting Footprints. Award-winning writer/programmer/filmmaker Kier-La Janisse presents four of the strongest and strangest explorations of onscreen delirium and hysteria.

HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN SEVERIN ANNOUNCES NEW BOX SET ‘HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN

In 2012, FAB Press released Kier-La Janisse’s film criticism/memoir hybrid House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films, which explored her troubled life from childhood adoption through teenage years in group homes and reform school and precarious adult relationships, reflected through the lens of horror films that featured similarly unstable female characters. But raw and truthful as we read about film reviewer, writer who writes about her life in an autobiography by dissecting it as she dissects horror films that she feels kinship to and a knowledge of using the mental illnesses of these characters as a definition to her issues and those around her in her upbringing. A brave book and endlessly fascinating. While it also serves up well known and obscure films and gives a deep definition of them as well as trivia. House of Psychotic Women is for the horror aficionado as well as the horror curious. Janisse weaves her own life into an intensely personal exploration of the genre, challenging the reader to reconsider the films in all of their complexity. I devoured this compelling, surprising, and moving book.” The Entity (about a woman sexually assaulted by a ghost; I know, sounds like a sleaze-fest, but it has a detached clinical tone and is actually rather compelling) She divides that fear into its yin and yang: “My fear is either that I’m insane and I don’t know it, or that everybody else is going to decide that I’m insane.” One of the new titles added is Steven Soderbergh’s paranoid thriller “Unsane,” in which Sawyer (Claire Foy) is committed to a mental hospital after being driven to desperation by a stalker.In a very unsurprising move, Severin Films and Kier-La Janisse have bestowed this release with a long list of newly produced and archival features to not only add context to the films being presented but further the conversation about these rarities to keep them alive. Of the many interviews, commentaries and other supplements included, I do want to call out a newly produced 68-minute interview with Vittorio Storaro that’s included with the Italian Cut of Footprints. This interview is truly exhaustive, showcasing just how much of a talented workman Storaro started his career as and just continued to grow from there. His agility in the Italian film industry made him a huge asset to many American filmmakers, yet the man knows how to tell a good story with the best of them. Martoccio, Angie (2019-10-02). "Harry Nilsson's Animated Film 'The Point!' Gets 50th Anniversary Digital Release". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 2021-06-19. this is the first paragraph of kier la-janisse’s house of psychotic women, an autobiographical topography of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films. i’ve been meaning to write a review on this book for so long (i’ve started it, several times) but how do you explain to yourself that the representation of the damaged you see onscreen, mostly inside of horror narratives, is the one you relate the most?