SEVERIN EMBRACES FEMALE MADNESS FOR FEBRUARY WITH HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN VOL. 2 AND IN MY SKIN
HOPW RARITIES COLLECTION VOLUME 2 Features 4 Blu-ray Premieres,
Marina de Van’s Startling Debut IN MY SKIN Makes Worldwide UHD/Blu-ray Premiere
Los Angeles, CA (February 14, 2025) Severin Films celebrates crazy love in February with HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN RARITIES COLLECTION Volume 2, featuring the North American Blu-ray Premieres of BUTTERFLY KISS (1995), MORGIANA (1972), THE SAVAGE EYE (1959) and THE GLASS CEILING (1971), all restored from original source elements and with 10+ combined hours of Special Features. The month also includes the Worldwide UHD and Blu-ray premiere of IN MY SKIN, the unforgettable and deeply personal portrait of self-harm from writer/director/star Marina de Van. Pre-orders for both – with bundles that feature the new HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN MYSTERY BOARD GAME – begin February 14th
HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN RARITIES COLLECTION Volume 2
In this second collection inspired by her “groundbreaking” (Screen Anarchy) book of the same name that “forever changed the landscape of film analysis” (Bloody Disgusting), producer/curator Kier-La Janisse presents a new quartet of international classics – along with nearly 11 combined hours of Special Features – that explores startling depictions of female neurosis on screen: Amanda Plummer gives a searing performance as a disturbed drifter on a cross-country killing spree in BUTTERFLY KISS, the breakthrough debut from director Michael Winterbottom. Legendary Czech actress Iva Janžurová portrays a pair of rival sisters in Juraj Herz’ crazed gothic melodrama MORGIANA. In Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers and Joseph Strick’s ‘dramatized documentary’ THE SAVAGE EYE, Barbara Baxley stars as a bitter divorcee adrift in Los Angeles’ dark underbelly. And with the landmark Spanish thriller THE GLASS CEILING starring Carmen Sevilla, writer/director Eloy de la Iglesia crafts an unsettling story of paranoia, madness and murder. All 4 films in HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN VOLUME 2 have been scanned from their original camera negatives and are presented on Blu-ray for the first time ever in North America.
BUTTERFLY KISS
In his “breathtakingly original” (Variety) debut feature, writer/director Michael Winterbottom (24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE, THE KILLER INSIDE ME) shocked audiences with the startling drama The New York Times called “a twisted British answer to THELMA & LOUISE”: Amanda Plummer (PULP FICTION) delivers “a brave performance that sears itself permanently into the viewer's consciousness” (Austin Chronicle) as a disturbed drifter whose seduction of a lonely convenience store clerk (an equally daring Saskia Reeves of Slow Horses) triggers a cross-country odyssey of obsession, madness and murder. Ricky Tomlinson (RIFF-RAFF) co-stars in this “provocative masterpiece” (The Advocate) co-written by 2x BAFTA nominee Frank Cottrell-Boyce (WELCOME TO SARAJEVO) and featuring cinematography by 2x Oscar® nominee Seamus McGarvey (ATONEMENT), now scanned in 2K from the original camera negative by The British Film Institute and approved by Winterbottom and McGarvey.
BUTTERFLY KISS Special Features:
● Introduction By Kier-La Janisse, Author Of House Of Psychotic Women
● Introduction By Writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce
● Audio Commentary With Film Historian Kat Ellinger
● Between Everyday And The Extreme – Michael Winterbottom On Directing BUTTERFLY KISS
● No Judgement – Amanda Plummer Remembers Portraying Eunice
● You're Not Judith – Saskia Reeves On Portraying Miriam
● Pestilence Through Petrol – Julie Baines On Producing BUTTERFLY KISS
● Front Light And Black Sky – Seamus McGarvey On Shooting BUTTERFLY KISS
● Trailer
Short Film:
● PLEASURES OF WAR (Ruth Lingford, 1998)
Feature Specs for BUTTERFLY KISS:
● Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
● Audio: English Stereo
● Closed Captions: English SDH
● Runtime: 88 mins
● Region: Region Free
MORGIANA
From internationally award-winning filmmaker Juraj Herz (THE CREMATOR, THE NINTH HEART) comes this “haunting” (Senses Of Cinema), “gorgeously baroque” (Starburst) and “deliriously exciting cult gem” (Culture Fix), considered to be the final film of the Czech New Wave: When their wealthy father dies, cruelly jealous Viktorie will lead her naïvely trusting sister Klára – both portrayed in “a frightening, stellar performance” (At The Mansion Of Madness) by legendary Czech actress Iva Janžurová – into a gothic nightmare of deception, blackmail and murder. Josef Abrhám (Václav Havel’s LEAVING) and Josef Somr (CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS) co-star in this “terrific chamber piece that horror fans still haven't caught up to” (Mondo Digital), newly scanned in 4K from the original camera negative by The National Film Archive in Prague.
MORGIANA Special Features:
● Introduction By Kier-La Janisse, Author Of House Of Psychotic Women
● Audio Commentary With Stranger With My Face Festival Director Briony Kidd And Cerise Howard, Co-Founder Of The Czech And Slovak Film Festival Of Australia
● Little Drop Of Poison – Actress Iva Janžurová Remembers MORGIANA
● The Stone Forest – Newly Commissioned Short Film On Shooting Location Pobiti Kamani, Animated By Leslie Supnet And Narrated By Kier-La Janisse
● NIGHTMARES – Juraj Herz' 1970 Vampire Rock Musical Made For Czech TV
Short Film:
● REST IN PEACE (Rachel Amodeo, 1998) New 2K Scan Of This Cult Favorite By Rachel Amodeo And Dame Darcy
Feature Specs for MORGIANA:
● Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
● Audio: Czech Mono
● English Subtitles
● Runtime: 101 mins
● Region: Region Free
THE SAVAGE EYE
In 1959, a trio of outsider filmmakers – formerly blacklisted screenwriter Ben Maddow (THE ASPHALT JUNGLE), Oscar® nominated editor/director Sidney Meyers (THE QUIET ONE) and future Oscar® winning director Joseph Strick (INTERVIEWS WITH MY LAI VETERANS) – wrote, produced, edited and directed the ‘dramatized documentary’ that San Francisco Cinematheque calls “a masterpiece of verité cinema”: Adrift and bitter after her recent divorce, a woman (Barbara Baxley of NORMA RAE and NASHVILLE) confronts the grim realities of existence amongst the poetic grotesqueries of urban Los Angeles. The voice of Gary Merrill (ALL ABOUT EVE) co-stars in this “unique and unusual must-see” (FilmFanatic) – filmed on location by a team of cinematographers that included 2x Academy Award® winner Haskell Wexler (MEDIUM COOL) – now scanned in 4K by Severin Films from the original camera negative provided by the Academy Film Archive.
THE SAVAGE EYE Special Features:
● Audio Commentary With Film Curator/Historian Elizabeth Purchell
● Judith X – Locations Video Essay By Esotouric's Kim Cooper
● Archival Interview With Co-Director Joseph Strick
● Trailer
● Trailers From Hell Commentary By Kier-La Janisse, Author Of House Of Psychotic Women
Short Films:
● INTERVIEWS WITH MY LAI VETERANS (Joseph Strick, 1970)
● Archival Interview With Director Joseph Strick On INTERVIEWS WITH MY LAI VETERANS
● MISS CANDACE HILLIGOSS' FLICKERING HALO (Vincenzo Core And Fabio Scacchioli, 2011)
Feature Specs for THE SAVAGE EYE:
● Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
● Audio: English Mono
● Closed Captions: English SDH
● Runtime: 67 mins
● Region: Region Free
THE GLASS CEILING
In his landmark 1971 feature, writer/director Eloy de la Iglesia – who would go on to create such subversively disturbing films as CANNIBAL MAN, THE CREATURE and the Quinqui classics NAVAJEROS and EL PICO 1 & 2 – brought an unnerving new perspective to female madness: When her husband leaves on a business trip, a frustrated housewife – an award-winning performance by Carmen Sevilla, star of CROSS OF THE DEVIL and NO ONE HEARD THE SCREAM – begins to obsess over unfamiliar noises in their apartment building and suspects that an upstairs neighbor has committed murder. Dean Selmier (THE BLOOD SPATTERED BRIDE), Patty Shepard (CRYPT OF THE LIVING DEAD), Fernando Cebrián (TRISTANA) and Emma Cohen (HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB) co-star in this milestone Spanish thriller, now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative.
THE GLASS CEILING Special Features:
● Introduction By Kier-La Janisse, Author Of House Of Psychotic Women
● Audio Commentary With Shelagh Rowan-Legg, Author Of A Forthcoming Monograph On Director Eloy De La Iglesia, And Faculty of Horror's Alexandra West
● Connected At The Soul – Patty Shepard As Remembered By Her Sister, Judith Chapman
● Alternate Scenes From The TV Version
● Trailer
Short Film:
● ANTA MUJER (Agustí Villaronga, 1976)
Feature Specs for THE GLASS CEILING:
● Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
● Audio: English Mono, Spanish Mono
● Closed Captions: English SDH
● English Subtitles
● Runtime: 95 mins
● Region: Region Free
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IN MY SKIN
You may be shocked. You might turn away. But you will never forget the “uniquely disturbing” (Indiewire), “spectacularly grotesque” (Los Angeles Times), “superbly acted and brilliantly made” (Cult Projections) debut film by writer/director/star Marina de Van: After a disfiguring leg injury, a young woman (de Van) develops an unsettling secret relationship with her own body in which pain is pleasure, mutilation is love and hungers of the flesh have a mind of their own. Laurent Lucas (CALVAIRE) and Léa Drucker (Catherine Breillat’s LAST SUMMER) co-star in this “beautiful and terrifying body horror tour-de-force” (Village Voice) scanned in 4K from the original camera negative for the first time ever, with 7 hours of Special Features curated exclusively for this edition
IN MY SKIN Special Features:
Disc 1 UHD:
● Commentary By Writer/Director/Star Marina De Van
● Commentary By Film Critic/Fantasia International Film Festival Programmer Justine Smith
● Exclusive Faculty Of Horror Episode On IN MY SKIN With Andrea Subissati And Alexandra West
● French Trailer
● U.S. Trailer
Disc 2 BLU-RAY:
● Introduction By Kier-La Janisse, Author Of House Of Psychotic Women
● Commentary By Writer/Director/Star Marina De Van
● Commentary By Film Critic/Fantasia International Film Festival Programmer Justine Smith
● Exposed Skin – Interview With Marina De Van
● Fear Of A Female Cannibal – Barbara Creed, Author Of The Monstrous-Feminine, On IN MY SKIN
● Under The Surface – Video Essay By Dr. Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Author Of 1000 Women In Horror, 1895-2018
● Exclusive Faculty Of Horror Episode On IN MY SKIN With Andrea Subissati And Alexandra West
● French Trailer
● U.S. Trailer
Marina De Van's Student Shorts:
● BIEN SOUS TOUS RAPPORTS (1996)
● RÉTENTION (1997)
Short Films:
● CADAVRE EXQUIS (Léa Mysius, 2013)
● A FERMENTING WOMAN (Priscilla Galvez, 2024)
● Commentary For A FERMENTING WOMAN With Director Priscilla Galvez And Star Sook-Yin Lee
Feature Specs for IN MY SKIN:
● Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
● Audio: French 5.1, French Stereo
● English Subtitles
● Run Time: 95 mins
● Region: Region Free
