![]() ![]() ![]() Few readers will make their way through the book without discovering some hidden treasure, and the same applies if one looks only at the new content. Though some of these films are well known and others have received diligent attention from the occasional genre-focused critic, many have been the subject of very little serious writing at all, and as such they may easily have gone under the radar of less obsessive fans. It’s a valuable contribution to the archive. With respect for the person she was when she wrote it, and the impossibility of reconnecting fully with what the autobiographical aspects of its content meant to her back then, the author has decided to leave the main part of the text untouched, but this expanded edition contains around a hundred new film reviews. As one looks back, one sees more clearly than ever just how much progress has been made since, both in terms of gender relations in the industry and in regard to the prevalence of female voices in discussions of horror cinema. It’s difficult to believe that only ten years have passed since the original publication of Kier-La Janisse’s House Of Psychotic Women, such has been the book’s impact and so profuse the number of female-focused genre films made since. ![]() The 2022 edition of House Of Psychotic Women ![]()
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