house of psychotic women expanded edition

From classics like Carrie to newer releases like Promising Young Woman, these films are featured not only with all their ugliness bare but questioning and comparing how exactly we treat “psychotic women” and how much autonomy they receive. It’s a cinematic history of how women have been mentally unwell, whether that is something they were pushed to or otherwise, and the ways in which society reacted to them and/or they lashed back out at society. Of the films featured, Janisse recognizes that the entries vary in both quality and in how they treat their women characters, but HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN isn’t a list of the best representations of insane women. HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN is part memoir and part film history as Janisse recounts both her childhood and her experience in the horror film circuit, and how she relates to the troubled (and sometimes virtuous, sometimes not) women characters that feature in the horror and exploitation film genres. HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN l Fab PressIt’s more than appropriate that Kier-la Janisse’s HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN gets its 10-year-rerelease during the height of the “unhinged woman” – an identity created and embraced in response to respectability feminism that says “not only do I support women’s rights, I support women’s wrongs.” The “unhinged woman” lives a life that makes us say “good for her” for rejecting what’s typically expected of women, whether that’s in her actions or simply her existence.

House of psychotic women expanded edition