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The House of Psychotic Women: Rarities Collection Blu-ray gathers four elusive and unsettling visions of female instability, curated to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Kier-La Janisse’s landmark book. Each film examines identity, trauma and psychic rupture in radically different forms. In Identikit (1974), Elizabeth Taylor portrays a woman spiralling through Rome in search of a dangerous final encounter. The Polish vampire tale I Like Bats (1986) blends gothic longing with offbeat comedy as its heroine wrestles with desire and self-loathing. The giallo Footprints (1975) follows a woman haunted by amnesia, lost memories and lunar nightmares. Jane Arden’s The Other Side of the Underneath (1972) plunges into raw, confrontational psychodrama, blurring performance and psychological breakdown. Presented on US Blu-ray for the first time, this set assembles new introductions, commentaries, interviews and rare archival materials that deepen each film’s connection to Janisse’s exploration of on-screen neurosis.
directed by: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Grzegorz Warchol, Luigi Bazzoni, Jane Arden
starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Barnard Hughes, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Florinda Bolkan, Jane Arden
1972–1986 / Multiple runtimes / Various aspect ratios / Mono audio
House Of Psychotic Women: Rarities Collection [Blu-ray]
BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
• Introduction to Identikit by Kier-La Janisse
• Commentary for Identikit by Millie De Chirico
• A Lack of Absence – Chandra Mayor on Muriel Spark and The Driver’s Seat
• The Driver’s Seat credit sequences
• Identikit trailer
• Introduction to I Like Bats by Kier-La Janisse
• Commentary for I Like Bats by Kamila Wielebska
• I Like Bats TV spot
• Introduction to Footprints by Kier-La Janisse
• To the Moon – interview with Ida Galli
• Nicoletta Elmi: Italian Cinema’s Imp Ascendent – video essay by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Craig Martin
• Commentary for Footprints by Kat Ellinger
• Light of the Moon – interview with cinematographer Vittorio Storaro
• Footprints trailer
• Introduction to The Other Side of the Underneath by Kier-La Janisse
• Extended workprint version of The Other Side of the Underneath
• Interview with Sheila Allen
• Interview with Natasha Morgan
• Extended sequences
• Penny Slinger live at the Miskatonic Institute
• Penny Slinger: Out of the Shadows trailer