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

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In particular, the exteriors near the seaside sound washed out and tinny, but I imagine that’s again due to the materials being used. It’s definitely worth a listen as she goes over how the film plays with audience expectations in terms of its horror movie branding, the visuals on display in the movie and much of the set design, thoughts on the different characters that populate the movie, elements of Polish history and society that shaped the movie, literary influences that work their way into the movie and quite a bit more. She initially believes a tranquilizer overdose is responsible for the lapse in memory, but begins to realize something sinister is afoot. At this time of year, when horror season is in full-swing, I often think of Gita Jackson's 2015 essay for Polygon, "Horror movies are one of the few places women are told their fears are real. She was a producer on David Gregory’s Tales of the Uncanny (2020) and wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021) for Severin Films, where she is a producer and editor of supplemental features.

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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. Her debut feature as a filmmaker, the three-hour documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, premiered at SXSW 2021 where it won the Midnighters Audience Award. Florinda Bolkan stars in the startling 1975 amnesiac giallo FOOTPRINTS from the director of THE FIFTH CORD. Grzegorz Warchol, who also worked as an actor most notably in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors: White in 1994 and who also has a supporting role in the picture as one Professor Wolf, directs with a fair amount of breezy style. It’s a remarkably slick looking picture set to a pretty solid score from Franco Mannino and Griffi does a really nice job of building suspense, particularly in the film’s final half hour where Lise’s quest comes to fulfillment.Zbigniew Preisner, who composed the music for all three parts of Kieslowski’s Three Colors trilogy, contributes the score which suits the tone of the movie perfectly.

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In 2010, [15] Janisse founded The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, an international organization that offers undergraduate-level history, theory and production-based masterclasses with branches in London, New York and Los Angeles.Janisse isn't concerned with crafting flowery prose or proving to the reader how smart she is (it's obvious), but with writing an honest, analytical overview of her life thus far with horror and exploitation cinema's psychotic women as her guideposts. Don’t go into this one expecting much of a horror movie, despite a few eerie moments, as you won’t get one. It's a book that still feels radical in its methodology and vulnerability, even ten years after its first release.