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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

1962
10
Director: 
Robert Aldrich

SYNOPSIS: 

A woman in a wheelchair is at the mercy of her crazy sister, who has transformed their crumbling house into a chamber of horrors.

REVIEW: 

Based on the novel by Henry Farrell released in 1960, the film is considered the progenitor of the psycho-biddy subgenre where the protagonists are mentally unstable elderly women, ready to terrorize the unfortunate ones on duty. Playing the disturbing sisters in this psychological thriller, a small jewel of genre cinema, are an unforgettable Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, great Hollywood stars now in their twilight years. Despite being free of bloody or macabre scenes, the film is a hallucinatory journey through sadism, madness and family resentments... Claustrophobic, having shot in black and white makes the face of the great Davis even more grotesque and hallucinatory, enough to lose sleep over it! The ending is heartbreaking. Unmissable, a great cult of the past, at the time it was welcomed with success by both critics and at the box office, it was presented in competition at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival receiving 5 nominations for the Oscar Award and winning the award for best costumes.

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