What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? is a 1962 drama/horror/thriller film. As an avid Halloween/horror lover I was told to check out this movie, and so I did. Its an older film so I was a little disappointed over the horror part. Older films tend to make you imagine something is more scary than actual showing it, but even this film was just more creepy than scary. It had more of a psychological take on the fear instilled between these two sisters.
The movie is about two sisters, "Baby" Jane Hudson and Blanche Hudson, played by Bette Davis and Joan Crawford respectively. Jane is a former child star, who is now a nobody and is taking care of her crippled sister, Blanche, who before her car accident was a movie star herself. The story follows Jane tormenting Blanche day after day in cruel ways. Jane does these things more or less out of jealousy or the fact that everybody pinned the accident and the fact that Blanche is crippled and no longer able to star in movies on Jane herself. As the movie goes on you start to realize that Jane is slowly slipping away from sanity and even tries to hire a man to revive her old career as a child star, even though she is already an older woman.
It was known in Hollywood that these two actresses, Davis and Crawford, had always frankly hated one another, and this did not change even when working together. One fact about the film was that Joan Crawford during one scene where Jane violently kicks her character, wanted to use a dummy due to the fact she was fearful that Bette Davis would "kick the living daylights out of her." Giving no spoilers away to those who haven't seen the film, there is a surprise at the end which might make some switch gears and feel sorry for Jane. This movie was not what I'm used to as far as horror films go, but its worth a watch if you're a fan of thrillers or old movies.
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