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. Nicoletta Elmi: Italian Horror’s Imp Ascendant — Video Essay By Film Scholars Alexandra Heller-Nicholas And Craig Martin The young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed befriends her father's dead first wife and an aging, reclusive actress. A group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.

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In his column in Gorezone #32, Tim Lucas called it “A groundbreaking book,” continuing to say that: “This is a rare work within the field, one that takes an almost novelistic leap of imagination in determining and recording its subject and collating its parts. The personal chapters are fascinating and harrowing, showing gifts for autobiographic writing not commonly found among film critics. Janisse proves an equally adept critic; her selection of films reveals a remarkably thorough immersion in her subject. She also deserves points for confronting the question about the subtle scars that we may invite by turning to such films for entertainment.” Directed by Grzegorz Warchol from a screenplay he co-wrote with Krystyna Kofta and released in 1986, I Like Bats (Lubie nietoperze in its native Poland) tells the rather odd story of a beautiful young woman named Izabela (Katarzyna Walter who, oddly enough, showed up briefly in the 2004 Steven Seagal movie Out Of Reach) who works in an antique shop run by her aunt. From 2005 to 2010, Janisse made a series of unofficial music documentaries, referred to by video artist Hope Peterson as “bibliodocs,” as they featured exclusively pre-existing footage with contextual intertitles or voiceover narration. These included Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth! (2005) based on the book by Kim Cooper and David Smay, and My Autumn’s Done Come: The Lee Hazlewood Story (2006). In 2010 her bibliodoc Teen Routines: The Self-Made Magic of R. Stevie Moore screened at The Horse Hospital in London, UK [23] and the Antimatter Festival in Victoria, Canada. [24] The 55-minute program focused on musician R. Stevie Moore's mid-career output (1974-1988), with an opening credit sequence by Canadian independent animator Leslie Supnet. In 2012 Kier-La Janisse published House of Psychotic Women, billed as "an autobiographical topography of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films." It soon became one of the most "vital" (Tim Lucas, Video Watchdog) and "astonishing" (Daily Grindhouse) genre tomes of all time. To mark the book's 10th anniversary, award-winning writer/programmer/filmmaker Janisse now presents four of the strongest and strangest explorations of onscreen delirium and hysteria, all on U.S. Blu-ray for the first time: Elizabeth Taylor stars in 1974's IDENTIKIT as a woman who travels to Rome to find the most dangerous liaison. In the surreal 1986 Polish horror-comedy I LIKE BATS, a vampire discovers that love may be the cruelest curse of all. Florinda Bolkan stars in the startling 1975 amnesiac giallo FOOTPRINTS from the director of THE FIFTH CORD. And British screenwriter and radical theatre icon Jane Arden directs 1972's harrowing THE OTHER SIDE OF THE UNDERNEATH.

Introduction To THE OTHER SIDE OF THE UNDERNEATH By Kier-La Janisse, Author Of House Of Psychotic Women Audio Commentary For I LIKE BATS By Kamila Wielebska, Actor And Co-Editor Of A Story Of Sin: Surrealism In Polish Cinema 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." An unfeeling gangster seeks to ruin the life of a young girl who rejected him. He forces her into prostitution and spies on her regularly, then he soon begins to fall for her.

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An orphaned teenager finds himself being dominated by his aunt who's hell-bent on keeping him with her...at all costs. In 2012, Janisse released her 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.Audio commentary with Kamila Wielebska, actor and co-editor of A Story Of Sin: Surrealism in Polish Cinema Janisse is the author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (FAB Press, 2007 ) and House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (FAB Press, 2012).

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Finishing up the extras on the disc is a trailer for Penny Slinger: Out Of The Shadows, menus and chapter selection options. 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. House of Psychotic Women is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films. Anecdotes and memories interweave with film history, criticism, trivia and confrontational imagery to create a reflective personal history and examination of female madness, both onscreen and off. 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.”– Molly Ringwald, actress, singer and author Disc three, which holds the U.S. cut of the movie, once again includes an introduction by Kier-La Janisse, this one running just under seven minutes. She goes over Balkan’s career and better known films before going on to discuss details of specific characters, giallo tropes, the look of the film and the town where it takes place and thoughts on Balkan’s character in the movie.Compendium of Female Neurosis. A cross-section of horror and violent exploitation films that feature disturbed or neurotic women as primary or pivotal characters. It all started with Possession. Zulawski’s film, formally speaking, is perfection – its deep blue hues, its labyrinthine locations, the hypnotic cinematography of Bruno Nuytten. But that’s not what drew me to return to it again and again. There was something terrible in that film, a desperation I recognized in myself, in my inability to communicate effectively, and the frustration that would lead to despair, anger and hysteria.”

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strong>FOOTPRINTS (93 mins: U.S. Cut/96 mins: Italian Cut/1.85:1/English Mono/CC, Italian Mono/English Subtitles) Fascinating, engaging and lucidly written: an extraordinary blend of deeply researched academic analysis and revealing memoir.” Finishing up the extras are a trailer for the feature, opening and closing titles for the alternate The Driver’s Seat version, menus and chapter selection options.

Next up is 1985 vampire horror comedy I Like Bats, directed and co-written by Grzegorz Warchol. The film presents itself a gothic horror film with the free visual style popularized during the Polish New Wave. Or rather, it’s presented in a style that apes the conventional trappings of American horror and comedy productions, but done with such aesthetic transgression towards those productions that it becomes its own thing. Simply, just see it. It follows the life of a single young female vampire Izabela (Katarzyna Walter), who loves to feed on the various suitors and sleazebags that enter her orbit. But soon she meets the man that has her feeling a different thirst, a romantic one! This is perhaps the best discovery in this set and is indicative of the kind of essential curation that is offered throughout the set. I truly cannot recommend watching it enough. The Corruption of Chris Miller; The Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll; Singapore Sling; Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly; The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here!; Martyrs; Images; 3 Women; Sisters Trance; May; The Collector; Out of the Blue; Don't Deliver Us from Evil; Alucarda; Cutting Moments; In My Skin