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

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That said, those who can appreciate different takes on the vampire cliché and can appreciate a slow burn should find this wholly unique picture quite rewarding. LOS ANGELES, CA) On August 30th, Severin Films is lifting the curtain on another heartstopping box set – House of Psychotic Women: Rarities Collection. It's a book that still feels radical in its methodology and vulnerability, even ten years after its first release. By combining the two genres, Janisse breathes life into the "psychotic women" we see on screen by explaining how they fit into her own narrative. As the talk progresses, we learn about her work as a photographer and her book "An Exorcism", her penchant for exploring sexual imagery and fetishism as well as surrealism, different media that she's used in her art over the years, why she likes to work with masks, her life-casting work, her relationship with filmmaker Peter Whitehead and the projects that they worked on together and where inspiration for different pieces came from.

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As part of her Alamo programming she founded Music Mondays, a weekly series of music documentaries [7] that garnered her an award from The Austin Chronicle. Despite the fact that her behavior is clearly odd, she isn't hurting anyone and on one seems to pay her much mind. Even where damage crept its way in, it’s clear that it was inherent to the source materials and would probably look worse cleaned up with some restoration tools. Soon after his arrival, a serial killer begins slaughtering blonde, blue-eyed women - and leaving their eyeballs in a bowl of water. Download House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films by Kier-la Janisse in PDF EPUB format complete free.

The second half of the book contains an appendix, entitled "Compendium of Female Neurosis," featuring hundreds of film reviews. The AVC encoded 1080p high definition transfer looks very good, though keep in mind that this is a naturally grainy film. Those looking for a traditionally sex and violence laden Giallo won’t find what they’re looking for with this picture, as it’s decidedly light on salaciousness and exploitative elements but Bazzoni's film, based on Mario Fanelli's novel and shot from a screenplay that the director co-wrote with Fanelli (who appears to have been an uncredited co-director on the movie as well), is a really suspenseful and very stylish slow burn. Read all An ex-convict, troubled by dreams that he strangles women, is hired as the caretaker on an estate owned by three very strange sisters. She becomes increasingly obsessed with pictures and textures and, seemingly, her own physical presence and tangible persona.

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Janisse was a producer on Mike Malloy's feature documentary Eurocrime: the Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the ’70s (2012), Sean Hogan’s short horror film We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea (2017) and Mike McKinlay’s short documentary Tights Worship: The Processes of The Rita (2019). Both look terrific and may be the best-looking transfers of the bunch, although that can probably be attributed to the shape of the source materials. Nicole (León) manages to bed him first, only to get locked in her room at night by her hateful older sister Claude (Diana Lorys) But, it isn't long before he Claude in bed. S.) are presented in 1080p with handsome presentations sourced from 4K scans of the original camera negatives.

The Italian Cut, on disc four, starts off with an audio commentary with Kat Ellinger that covers the different titles the film has gone under and why she prefers Footprints, details of Luigi Bazzoni's career, the sci-fi mold of the opening sequence, how the film compares to other more experimental giallo-esque pictures, Ida Galli's small but important part in the movie, what Bolkan brings to the movie and what sets her apart from other actresses, the low key directing style used in most of the movie and how effective it is when it builds to the film's finish, Vittorio Storaro's cinematography and Nicol Piovani's score, the film's connections to various Italian arthouse films, the gothic elements of the story, the likely influence of Hitchcock's Vertigo and quite a lot more. Lindenmuth, his first feature effort (he’s still around today and has cranked out twenty-four movies since this one), 1994’s Vampires And Other Stereotypes features.