This 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.Former Alamo Drafthouse booker Kier-La Janisse's personal rebuttal to the cinemtic trope of the hysterical woman is already an underground classic. 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. Horror as a genre provides the most welcoming platform for these histrionics: crippling paranoia, desperate loneliness, masochistic death-wishes, dangerous obsessiveness, apocalyptic hysteria. Cinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen. This first pressing of the Expanded Edition has been issued as a large format hardcover. To mark its 10th anniversary, Kier-La Janisse and FAB Press have reteamed to produce an expanded edition the book, featuring new writing on 100 more films - many of which were inspired in part by the book itself - and hundreds of new images. In this pioneering work, anecdotes and memories interweave with film history, criticism, trivia and confrontational imagery to create a reflective personal history and a consideration of female madness, both onscreen and off. Kier-La Janisse's HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films that examines hundreds of films through a daringly personal lens. In 2012, a book debuted that would go on to canonical status and usher in a new way of writing about film. Print House of Psychotic Women - An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films Expanded Edition
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