“You lose your identification and you’re put into this place where because you’re categorized as a mentally ill person, you don’t have any rights anymore. Sawyer experiences what Janisse herself has experienced: being admitted to a mental hospital your ID and phone are taken away. “It’s symbolic,” said Janisse. She divides that fear into its yin and yang: “My fear is either that I’m insane and I don’t know it, or that everybody else is going to decide that I’m insane.” One of the new titles added is Steven Soderbergh’s paranoid thriller “Unsane,” in which Sawyer (Claire Foy) is committed to a mental hospital after being driven to desperation by a stalker. When Your Own Body Is the Big Screen Monster All of them, of course, about “psychotic women.” “I privileged films that were not about psycho-killer women, I privileged films that were more about women questioning their sanity,” Janisse told IndieWire of the new titles, “Because that’s my biggest fear.” On one level, it is a memoir of personal trauma expressed through horror heroines everywhere from classic horror to giallo to exploitation to more arthouse fare like Robert Altman’s “Images.” Yet author Kier-La Janisse’s book - intriguingly subtitled “An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films” - reaches beyond both autobiography and cinema to conjure a space where collective female neurosis is a sane response to insane circumstances.įirst published in 2012, the book has now been reissued for its tenth anniversary, complete with an updated list of films the Canadian author, critic, and horror expert examines.
Layers of knowledge, confession, and imagination mingle to produce a narrative that invites re-reading and re-interpretation. “House of Psychotic Women” levitates above the niche sub-genre of autobiography through cinema.
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