House Of Psychotic Women: Rarities Collection (BLU-RAY)

Award-winning writer/programmer/filmmaker Kier-La Janisse presents four of the strongest and strangest explorations of onscreen delirium and hysteria.

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 now presents four of the strongest and strangest explorations of onscreen delirium and hysteria, all on U.S. Blu-ray for the first time: Elizabeth Taylor stars in 1974's IDENTIKIT as a woman who travels to Rome to find the most dangerous liaison. In the surreal 1986 Polish horror-comedy I LIKE BATS, a 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.

IDENTIKIT (102 mins/1.85:1/English Mono/CC, Italian Mono/English Subtitles)

Extras:

• Intro By Kier-La Janisse
• Commentary By Millie De Chirico
• Chandra Mayor On Muriel Spark And The Driver's Seat

I LIKE BATS (81 mins/1.66:1/Polish Mono/English Subtitles)

Extras:

• Intro By Kier-La Janisse
• Commentary By Kamila Wielebska

FOOTPRINTS (93 mins: U.S. Cut/96 mins: Italian Cut/1.85:1/English Mono/CC, Italian Mono/English Subtitles)

Extras:

• Intro By Kier-La Janisse
• Ida Galli Interview
• Video Essay On Nicoletta Elmi
• Commentary By Kat Ellinger
• Vittorio Storaro Interview

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE UNDERNEATH (111 mins/1.33:1/English Mono/CC)

Extras:

• Intro By Kier-La Janisse
• Extended Workprint Version
• Sheila Allen & Natasha Morgan Interviews
• Extended Sequences
• Penny Slinger At The Miskatonic Institute