![]() ![]() “I made a point of not really looking at what I wrote before, because I always hate my writing when I look back at it even a year later,” she says – something which a lot of authors will relate to. Ahead of the festival, Kier-La and I met up to discuss the book, and I asked her where she began in taking on the enormous task of bringing it up to date. Tomorrow the expanded tenth anniversary edition will be launched at the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal. Part memoir, part critical exploration of key genre titles, it is remarkable in its scope and in its contextualisation of key works. ![]() First released in 2012, Kier-La Janisse’s House Of Psychotic Women was of major importance in the appraisal of horror cinema, and remains one of the most influential work looking at the genre from a female perspective. ![]()
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