Kier la janisse house of psychotic women6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This sharply-designed book with a 32-page full-colour section is packed with rare stills, posters, pressbooks and artwork that combine with family photos and artifacts to form a titillating sensory overload, with a filmography that traverses the acclaimed and the obscure in equal measure. Anecdotes and memories interweave with film history, criticism, trivia and confrontational imagery to create a reflective personal history and an examination of female madness, both onscreen and off. Named after the U.S.-retitling of Carlos Aured's The Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll, House of Psychotic Women is an examination of these characters through a daringly personal autobiographical lens. Unlike her male counterpart - 'the eccentric' - the female neurotic lives a shamed existence, making these films those rare places where her destructive emotions get to play. ![]() Horror fans are such an enthusiastic audience. Filmmaker and author Kier-La Janisse tells The Letterboxd Show about cultivating the cinematic canon of female madness via her book, House of Psychotic Women. ![]() Horror as a genre provides the most welcoming platform for these histrionics: crippling paranoia, desperate loneliness, masochistic death-wishes, dangerous obsessiveness, apocalyptic hysteria. One of cinema’s ultimate psychotic women: Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill in Possession (1981). House of Psychotic Women is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films.Ĭinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen. ![]()
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