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. Iain Banks, author of The Wasp FactoryĬinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen. Ralph Bakshi, director of Fritz the Cat, Heavy Traffic, Fire and Ice, etc.įascinating, engaging and lucidly written: an extraordinary blend of deeply researched academic analysis and revealing memoir. The truth in the most deadly unique way I've ever read. God, this woman can write, with a voice and intellect that's so new. Anecdotes and memories interweave with film history, criticism, trivia and confrontational imagery to create a reflective personal history and examination of female madness, both onscreen and off.ĪLSO AVAILABLE: Large Format Expanded Hardcover Edition with CD House of Psychotic Women is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films.
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