House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films

House of Psychotic Women is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films. Cinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a wo…

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