![]() ![]() The influential tome has also played no small role in canonising a range of obscure, fringe and forgotten genre titles, many now considered essential. Janisse’s ground-breaking mix of keen critical analysis and clear-eyed, thoroughly compelling memoir inspired a generation of critics, programmers and film-makers. ![]() ![]() Renowned writer, curator and director Kier-La Janisse is joining Matchbox Cine for a UK tour in support of a 10th anniversary expanded edition of her seminal book, House of Psychotic Women, subtitled an ‘autobiographical topography of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films’. An unexpectedly touching comedy of the blackest kind, filmed in Cardiff on a small budget whilst Lowe herself was pregnant is a modern classic. Widow Ruth is seven months pregnant when, believing herself to be guided by her unborn baby, she embarks on a homicidal rampage, dispatching anyone who stands in her way. ![]() Wales | 2016 | 88’ | 15 | Alice Lowe | Alice Lowe, Jo Hartley, Kayvan Novak, Mike Wosniak, Kate Dickie Join us for a discussion on women in horror films with producer, writer and founder of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies Kier-la Janisse and filmmaker Alice Lowe, whose debut feature film Prevenge was made in Cardiff and features in Janisse’s new edition of the book The House of Psychotic Women. ![]()
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