10th ANNIVERSARY EXPANDED EDITION – LIMITED HARDCOVER
448 pages, including 48-page color section
Cover Price: £39.99 (UK) / $59.95 (US)
Available from FAB Press HERE >>
Featuring 100 additional reviews in a larger format book, and the return of the author’s preferred cover, depicting Marina Pierro in Walerian Borowczyk’s Dr. Jeckyll and his Women (1981).
EACH HARDBACK PRE-ORDERED DIRECT FROM FAB PRESS INCLUDES THE OPTION OF A PERSONALLY AUTOGRAPHED AUTHOR SIGNATURE PLATE
STRICTLY LIMITED 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE CD — Author Kier-La Janisse reads the literary classic ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ with original score by Timothy Fife and artwork by Katy Horan (Ask Baba Yaga, Literary Witches) — PLEASE NOTE: the CD will not be available via mainstream book trade outlets
An Audiobook of House of Psychotic Women – read by the author herself – was released by Tantor Audio in October 2023. You can get the audiobook through Audible or your preferred platforms, or directly on the Tantor website HERE.
PAPERBACK – EXPANDED EDITION
Featuring “Starry Eyes” cover design
448 Pages, including 48-page full colour section
Available from FAB PRESS Here: https://www.fabpress.com/house-of-psychotic-women-expanded-paperback.html
Also available on Amazon, bookstores and libraries.
HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN: RARITIES COLLECTION
4-Disc blu ray box set
Curation, art direction and special features produced by author Kier-La Janisse
Available from Severin Films HERE >>
(also book+box set bundles available, scroll down for details)
In 2012 Kier-La Janisse published House of Psychotic Women, billed as “an autobiographical topography of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films.” It soon became one of the most “vital” (Tim Lucas, Video Watchdog) and “astonishing” (Daily Grindhouse) genre tomes of all time. To mark the book’s 10th anniversary, award-winning writer/programmer/filmmaker Janisse (WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED) now presents four of the strongest and strangest explorations of onscreen delirium and hysteria, all on American Blu-ray for the first time: Elizabeth Taylor stars in 1974’s IDENTIKIT (aka THE DRIVER’S SEAT) as a hostile woman who travels to Rome for a dangerous liaison. In the surreal 1986 Polish horror-comedy I LIKE BATS, a female vampire discovers that love may be the cruelest curse of all. Florinda Bolkan stars in the startling 1975 amnesiac giallo FOOTPRINTS from the director of THE FIFTH CORD. And British screenwriter and radical theatre icon Jane Arden directs 1972’s harrowing THE OTHER SIDE OF THE UNDERNEATH. Each film has been restored from original vault elements, with all-new introductions by the author and hours of Special Features produced exclusively for this collection.
THE BATTY BUNDLE
Includes 5-disc blu ray box set, House of Psychotic Women book w/ CD, tote bag, Footprints sleep mask, Identikit scarf, I Like Bats Czech poster replica (folded)
Available from Severin Films HERE >>
HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN RARITIES COLLECTION Vol. 2
4-Disc blu ray box set
Curation, art direction and special features produced by author Kier-La Janisse
Available from Severin Films
“A NEW FEMINIST ESSENTIAL…
As more ‘Psychotic Women’ films are released,
our understanding of what Kier-La Janisse intended
to accomplish when she popularized that phrase must expand
to include new depictions of female madness in cinema.”
Paste Magazine
RESTORED FROM ORIGINAL SOURCE ELEMENTS
WITH 10+ HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES
In this second collection inspired by her “groundbreaking” (Screen Anarchy) book that “forever changed the landscape of film analysis” (Bloody Disgusting), producer/curator Kier-La Janisse presents a new quartet of international classics – along with nearly 11 combined hours of Special Features – that explores startling depictions of female neurosis on screen: Amanda Plummer gives a searing performance as a disturbed drifter on a cross-country killing spree in BUTTERFLY KISS, the breakthrough debut from director Michael Winterbottom. Legendary Czech actress Iva Janžurová portrays a pair of rival sisters in Juraj Herz’ crazed gothic melodrama MORGIANA. In Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers and Joseph Strick’s ‘dramatized documentary’ THE SAVAGE EYE, Barbara Baxley stars as a bitter divorcee adrift in Los Angeles’ dark underbelly. And with the landmark Spanish thriller THE GLASS CEILING starring Carmen Sevilla, writer/director Eloy de la Iglesia crafts an unsettling story of paranoia, madness and murder. All 4 films in HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN RARITIES COLLECTION VOLUME 2 have been scanned from their original camera negatives and are presented on Blu-ray for the first time ever in North America.
THE HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN MYSTERY GAME
Produced by Severin Films, 2025
The scene opens in a great manor house where nine disturbed women find themselves facing the uncomfortable truth that one of them may have committed a murder. But is the house real, or are its curious rooms just the chambers of a fractured psyche? Only once you “reenact” the traumatic event by determining the weapon, the location and the identity of the true madwoman among you, will you discover whether there has even been a murder at all — or if you are just trapped inside the nightmarish imagination of the HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN!
This limited edition game, developed by House of Psychotic Women author Kier-La Janisse, will have familiar mechanics to board game aficionados (wink wink) but showcases some of Janisse’s favorite characters from the book. Created to coincide with Severin’s House of Psychotic Women Rarities Collection Volumes 1 & 2, the game features gorgeous original illustrations by Jessica Seamans and additional package design by HauntLove.
Dimensions: 279 x 279 x 38mm
Top image: THE DEVILS (Ken Russell, 1971)