{"product_id":"house-of-psychotic-women","title":"House of Psychotic Women","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHouse of Psychotic Women\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Molly Ringwald\u003c\/strong\u003e, actress, singer and author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Lydia Lunch\u003c\/strong\u003e, musician, poet, author \u0026amp; No Wave icon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen. Horror as a genre provides the most welcoming platform for these histrionics: crippling paranoia, desperate loneliness, masochistic death-wishes, dangerous obsessiveness, apocalyptic hysteria. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNamed after the U.S.-retitling of Carlos Aured's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlue Eyes of the Broken Doll\u003c\/em\u003e, HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN is an examination of these characters through a daringly personal autobiographical lens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis sharply-designed book, including a 48-page full-colour section, is packed with 680 rare stills, posters, pressbooks and artwork throughout, 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. Films covered include\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Entity, The Corruption of Chris Miller, Singapore Sling, 3 Women, Toys Are Not for Children, Repulsion, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, The Haunting of Julia, Secret Ceremony, Cutting Moments, Out of the Blue, Mademoiselle, The Piano Teacher, Possession, Antichrist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand hundreds more!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e“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.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJimmy McDonough\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fabpress.com\/the-ghastly-one-paperback.html\" data-linkindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Ghastly One: The 42nd Street Netherworld of Director Andy Milligan\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Fascinating, engaging and lucidly written: an extraordinary blend of deeply researched academic analysis and revealing memoir.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIain Banks\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of The Wasp Factory\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp aria-hidden=\"true\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePreface:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExpanded Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHave You Got a Magnificent Problem?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Wound-Gatherers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Entity; Paranormal Activity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: Broken Dolls\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Corruption of Chris Miller; The Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll; Singapore Sling; Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny \u0026amp; Girly; The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here!; Martyrs; Images; 3 Women; Sisters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: All Safe and Dead\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Glass Ceiling; All the Colors of the Dark; Gently Before She Dies; Anima Persa; Let's Scare Jessica to Death; The Reincarnation of Peter Proud; The Haunting of Julia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 4: Secret Ceremonies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMs.45; Four Flies on Grey Velvet; Autopsy; The Perfume of the Lady in Black; Toys Are Not for Children; Secret Ceremony; The Witch Who Came from the Sea; Daddy; The Geography of Fear; The Ladies Club; A Gun for Jennifer; Defenceless\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 5: Afterschool Special\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrance; May; The Collector; Out of the Blue; Don't Deliver Us from Evil; Alucarda; Cutting Moments; In My Skin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 6: The Strange Passenger\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarnie; Born Innocent; Christiane F.; Streetwise; A Lizard in a Woman's Skin; Footprints; Nabi: The Butterfly; La nuit des traquées; Love Me Deadly; Nekromantik\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 7: You've Always Loved Violence\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Whip and the Body; The Frightened Woman; The Isle; Bad Guy; The Blood Spattered Bride; Rebecca\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 8: Heal Me with Hatred\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSymptoms; Prey; Cat People; The Devils; The Killer Nun; Mademoiselle; The Piano Teacher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 9: Piercing Reality\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Other Side of the Underneath; The Brood; Possession; Szamanka; Man, Woman and Beast; Antichrist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 10: You Carry a Coffin Today\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVenus Drowning; Mermaid in a Manhole\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEpilogue: The Monster at the End of this Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAppendix:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCompendium of Female Neurosis. A cross-section of horror and violent exploitation films that feature disturbed or neurotic women as primary or pivotal characters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlice, Sweet Alice; All the Colors of the Dark; Alucarda; Anima persa; Antichrist; Asylum; The Attic; Audition; Autopsy; The Baby; Bad Dreams; Bad Guy; Bas-fonds; Bedevilled; The Beguiled; La Belle Bête; The Bird with the Crystal Plumage; Black Narcissus; Black Swan; The Blood Spattered Bride; The Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll; Born Innocent; Boy Meets Girl; The Brave One; The Bride; The Brood; Burnt Offerings; Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker; Can Go Through Skin; A Candle for the Devil; Carrie; La casa muda; Cat People; La cérémonie; Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things; Christiane F.; The Collector; The Corruption of Chris Miller; Les cousines; \"Criminally Insane\"; The Curse of the Cat People; Cutting Moments; Daddy; Dead Creatures; Defenceless: A Blood Symphony; Dementia; Descent; The Devil's Widow; The Devils; Diabel; Die! Die! My Darling!; The Dinner Party; Dirty Weekend; Dr. Jekyll and His Women; Don't Deliver Us from Evil; Don't Look Now; Don't Torture a Duckling; Doppelganger; Dracula's Daughter; Dream Home; The Entity; The Escapees; Eyes of a Stranger; Fatal Attraction; Feed; Five Across the Eyes; Footprints; Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion; Four Flies on Grey Velvet; Freeze Me; The Frightened Woman; Frightmare; Funeral Home; Gently Before She Dies; The Geography of Fear; The Girl Next Door; The Glass Ceiling; Goodbye Gemini; A Gun for Jennifer; Handgun;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"markt97x5xwiz uM2yb\"\u003eHappy Birthday\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto Me; Hard Candy; The Haunting (1963); The Haunting (2009); The Haunting of Julia; Haute tension; Heavenly Creatures; The Honeymoon Killers; A Horrible Way to Die; I Never Promised You a Rose Garden; Images; In My Skin; The Innocents; Inside; The Isle; Julie Darling; Kichiku; The Killer Nun; Kissed; Knife of Ice; The Ladies Club; The Last Exorcism; The Legend of Lylah Clare; The Legend of the Wolf Woman; Let's Scare Jessica to Death; A Lizard in a Woman's Skin; Love Me Deadly; The Loved Ones; Macabre; The Mad Room; Mademoiselle; Madhouse (1974); Madhouse (1981); Madness; The Mafu Cage; Man, Woman and Beast; Marnie; Martyrs; Masks; May; Misery; Morris County; Morvern Callar; Mother's Day; Ms.45; Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny \u0026amp; Girly; Nabi: The Butterfly; Neighbor; Neither the Sea Nor the Sand; Nekromantik; Nekromantik 2; Next of Kin; The Night Porter; A Night to Dismember; Nightbirds; Nightmares; La nuit des traquées; The Other Hell; The Other Side of the Underneath; Out of the Blue; Paranoia; Paranormal Activity; The Perfume of the Lady in Black; Persona; Phenomena; The Piano Teacher; Pigs; Play Misty for Me; Possession; Pretty Poison; Prey; Psycho Girls; The Rapture; The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here!; Rebecca; Red Desert; Red Sun; Red White \u0026amp; Blue; The Reincarnation of Peter Proud; Repulsion; Road to Salina; Roman's Bride; Santa Sangre; Schizo; Scissors; Scream 4; Séance on a Wet Afternoon; Secret Ceremony; The Secret Life of Sarah Sheldon; Shock; Singapore Sling; Sinner; Sisters (1973); Sisters (2006); Slaughter Hotel; The Snake Pit; Sombre; Spider Baby; The Stendhal Syndrome; Straight On Till Morning; Strait-Jacket; The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver; The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie; Symptoms; Szamanka; That Cold Day in the Park; They Call Her One Eye; 3 Women; To Let; Toys Are Not for Children; Trance; Trilogy of Terror; Trouble Every Day; Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me; The Uninvited; Venom; Venus Drowning; The Washing Machine; What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?; The Whip and the Body; Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?; Windows; The Witch Who Came from the Sea; The Woman; Woman Transformation; Wound\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePLUS MORE THAN 100 EXTRA FILM REVIEWS EXCLUSIVE TO THIS NEW EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp aria-hidden=\"true\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKier-La Janisse\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a film writer, programmer, producer and founder of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. She is the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2007) and has been an editor on numerous books including\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWarped \u0026amp; Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2021),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eYuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2017) and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fabpress.com\/satanic-panic-paperback.html\" data-linkindex=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eSatanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2015). She was a producer on David Gregory’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTales of the Uncanny\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2020) and wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWoodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2021) for Severin Films, where she is a producer and editor of supplemental features. She is currently at work on several books including a monograph about Monte Hellman’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCockfighter\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp aria-hidden=\"true\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cem\u003eTechnical Details:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e225mm x 192mm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExtent:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e448 pages, heavily illustrated in colour and black and white\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-913051-34-1\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FAB Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45722736722094,"sku":"9781913051341","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0583\/4614\/3918\/files\/HOPW-cover-paperback-RGBcopy.jpg?v=1725875097","url":"https:\/\/limelightcollection.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/house-of-psychotic-women","provider":"Limelight Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}