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

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It’s all very odd. The narrative has a lot of loose ends and plot holes that are never quite satisfyingly resolved and we spend too much time watching Lise go shopping and berate restaurant and shop employees, but Taylor’s embracing the role wholeheartedly and showing a determined commitment to really just going for it with her performance make this not just watchable, but bizarrely compelling and, at times, even engrossing. Taylor’s wardrobe and garish hair and makeup is almost worth the price of admission alone but to see her chew the scenery and deliver some absurd dialogue relating to eating and orgasming is just the icing on this seriously bizarre cinematic cake.

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Fantasia Fest 2019 Full Lineup Includes Ready or Not, Sadako". Collider. 2019-06-27 . Retrieved 2021-06-19. This disc also includes Light Of The Moon — An Interview With Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro that runs for an hour and eighteen minutes. This lengthy and in-depth discussion goes over how he came to work in the industry thanks to his father's position as a cameraman, meeting people who he would form lifelong friendships with, getting his start in the business, meeting Bazzoni and coming to work with him, the state of Italy at this period in time and how it affected different projects, working with Corbucci and Franco Nero, becoming part of a group of filmmakers all interested in putting their creativity on screen. As the piece goes on, he talks about working with Franco Rossi, moving on from doing shorts to features, making the move from camera operator to cinematographer, what he tried to bring to various projects with his compositions, the importance of collaboration and the specifics of shooting Footprints.The disc also includes a commentary with Kamila Wielebska, Actor and Co-Editor of A Story Of Sin: Surrealism In Polish Cinema. It’s unconventional and very dramatic in its delivery, opening with a Bela Lugosi impersonation, but genuinely interesting and frequently quite humorous. 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. Fascinating, engaging and lucidly written: an extraordinary blend of deeply researched academic analysis and revealing memoir.”

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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. MacAllister-McDonald, Ian (11 May 2016). "Dark Places: Kier-La Janisse's "House of Psychotic Women" ". Los Angeles Review of Books . Retrieved 2021-06-19.

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While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in raids in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic, probably due to the lurid video box art. [1] Strangely, although this was Naschy's take on the Italian giallo genre, the film does not appear to have been theatrically distributed at all in Italy, France or Germany. Shot in a remote mining community in Wales with a low budget and a lot of LSD, The Under Side Of The Underneath is almost unclassifiable. As unique an experimental film as you’re ever likely to see, the movie is as compelling as it is fiercely angry. Shot with a rough and tumble style that almost seems better suited for a documentary, the movie isn’t always an easy one to watch, but it’s fascinating regardless. With many of the cast members on acid and clearly under the influence of the psychedelic drug, and its director reportedly heavily intoxicated throughout most of the shoot herself, the movie makes great use of a score that is heavy on strings and which somehow adds to the overall feel of insanity that Arden and company capture with the project. For his only foray into the zombie genre, sleaze maestro Andrea Bianchi (MALABIMBA: THE MALICIOUS WHORE) unleashes enough flesh-ripping, gut-chomping ... Both cuts of Footprints (Italian and U.S.) are presented in 1080p with handsome presentations sourced from 4K scans of the original camera negatives. Flipping between both cuts didn’t reveal any big visual differences between the two. 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. Grain looks remarkable, not surprising given the use of the OCN for the scan, and not much damage can be found throughout. Those sun-blanched colors so native to Italy are shown beautifully here, especially in the seaside sequences. As the movie builds towards a few different chaotic set pieces, we're left questioning if, to regain their sanity, these women must first go insane, and if they aren't being liberated through their various experiences.

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Kier-La Janisse has written a very singular overview of horror films, her subset being those with a focus on female neurosis, and combined it with a sort of autobiographical account of her life. Aside from some jarring transitions between the personal material and the cinematic analysis, this works remarkably well. Janisse is a Canadian film programmer and her lifelong devotion to horror is jaw-dropping in its comprehensiveness. Horror is probably my favorite genre but she has seen and absorbed hundreds I’ve barely heard of, or not at all. The odd structure of the book works because it’s not about some trite “and this is how I got interested in horror”, but rather uses various horror cinema as clues to her own dark family history and psychology. I don’t say ‘dark’ lightly. The scariest things in this book aren’t about movies. GROUNDBREAKING…House of Psychotic Women is one of the most influential pieces of film analysis of the 21st century. Kier-La Janisse is a legend in the genre community.”-Screen Anarchy Mike Leigh explores the anger, alienation and broken dreams that define the everyday lives of three families in a low-income London housing project.TH...

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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (weirdly, everyone remembers this wrong; it’s not camp, it’s bleak and somber, and brilliant) My very favorite film books typically exist in two categories: Either as analysis & lists of films I've yet to discover (Film as a Subversive Art, The World of Fantastic Films, Nightmare USA, etc) or as an in-depth behind-the-scenes mixture of anecdotes and remembrances (Easy Riders Raging Bulls, Pictures at a Revolution, Cronenberg on Cronenberg) which illuminate aspects of films I love and, in their own ways, make me love them more. Her directorial debut, "Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror," is currently streaming on Shudder. Don't let the three-plus hour runtime deter you: It is well worth the watch. Audio Commentary With Kamila Wielebska, Actor And Co-Editor Of A Story Of Sin: Surrealism In Polish Cinema

Stars: Paul Naschy, Diana Lorys, Maria Perschy, Eduardo Calvo, Eva León, Inés Morales, Antonio Pica The Piano Teacher (says Kier-La: “I have so much love for (Isabelle Huppert’s character) that it’s hard to even describe”; says me: brrr….) An oddball meta-spoof of carnal cabaret, alien breeding, group marriage, spy dramas, satanic cults, the 'Clasificada S' genre and more.THE NORTH AMERI... In 2017, she began working with Severin Films as an editor and producer for their special features. This collaboration led to Janisse’s first feature as director/producer, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, which premiered at SXSW 2021 and won the Midnighters Audience Award. In 2020 Janisse co-produced the documentary feature Tales of the Uncanny with David Gregory of Severin Films, interviewing over 60 filmmakers, critics and scholars about the history of the horror portmanteau film. The documentary premiered at Wales' Abertoir Film Festival in October 2020. [26]