TONIGHT: House of Exotic Women @ International House

As the rabid turnout for Exhumed Films' annual 24-Hour Horrorthon exemplifies, nostalgia plays a huge role in horror fanatics' adoration of even the dreckiest films from their younger days.

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TONIGHT: House of Exotic Women @ International House

POSTED: Wednesday, November 28, 2012, 10:00 AM
Filed Under: Movies

As the rabid turnout for Exhumed Films’ annual 24-Hour Horrorthon exemplifies, nostalgia plays a huge role in horror fanatics’ adoration of even the dreckiest films from their younger days. In her new book, House of Psychotic Women, film programmer and journalist Kier-La Janisse explores the idea of female neurosis in horror films through an autobiographical look at her own fright-flick-obsessed youth. The title comes from a 1973 Spanish film starring unlikely horror idol Paul Naschy as a drifter who dreams of strangling women (the film is also known as Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll – if only Euro-sleaze filmmakers were as adept at pacing and coherent storytelling as they were at devising baroque titles). Exhumed’s Joseph A. Gervasi will present an evening with both Houses, featuring a screening of an uncut video print with an introduction and discussion by Janisse.

Wed., Nov. 28, 8 p.m., $8, PhilaMOCA, 531 N. 12th St., www.philamoca.org.

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