Since the release of Feud is fast approaching, we thought it was the perfect time to celebrate some Grande Dame Guignol/Hagsploitation/Old Broad in Peril classics. After all, Feud chronicles the making of What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? which famously pitted two ‘over the hill’ icons against each other in the world of Gothic melodrama – not to mention the behind the scenes backdrop of sixties Hollywood.
After typing out a near two-thousand page essay on the Hagsploitation genre and Blogger deciding to wipe it and then autosave, you’re not going to get our commentary on these various Hasploitation pieces – always type up in Word first, folks. Lesson learnt. However, we still do want to share these classics with you, so here’s a list of the films with some nice images.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962
Joan Crawford & Bette Davis
Dead Ringer 1964
Bette Davis
Strait-Jacket 1964
Joan Crawford
Lady in a Cage 1964
Olivia de Havilland
Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964
Bette Davis & Olivia de Havilland
Die! Die! My Darling! 1965
Tallulah Bankhead
The Night Walker 1964
Barbara Stanwyck
I Saw What You Did 1965
Joan Crawford
The Nanny 1965
Bette Davis
The Witches 1966
Joan Fontaine & Kay Walsh
Games 1967
Simone Signoret
Berserk 1967
Joan Crawford
Savage Intruder 1970
Miriam Hopkins
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? 1969
Geraldine Page & Ruth Gordon
Eye of the Cat 1969
Eleanor Parker
Trog 1970
Joan Crawford
The Beast in the Cellar 1970
Beryl Reid & Flora Robson
Cry of the Banshee 1970
Elisabeth Bergner
What’s the Matter with Helen? 1971
Debbie Reynolds & Shelley Winters
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? 1971
Shelley Winters
Blood and Lace 1971
Gloria Grahame
The Screaming Woman 1972
Olivia de Havilland
Olivia de Havilland
The Baby 1973
Ruth Roman
The Killing Kind 1973
Ruth Roman & Ann Sothern
Night Watch 1973
Elizabeth Taylor
Killer Bees 1974
Gloria Swanson
Persecution 1975
Lana Turner & Sheba the Cat
Carrie 1976
Piper Laurie
Ruby 1977
Piper Laurie
Killer Nun 1979
Anita Ekberg
Anita Ekberg
Windows 1980
Elizabeth Ashley & Talia Shire
The Fan 1981
Lauren Bacall
Mommie Dearest 1981
Faye Dunaway
Misery 1990
Kathy Bates
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? 1991
Vanessa Redgrave & Lynn Redgrave
Mommy 1995 & Mommy’s Day 1997
Patty McCormack
The Landlady 1998
Talia Shire
Hush 1998
Jessica Lange
Die, Mommie, Die! 2003
Charles Busch
The Omen 2006
Mia Farrow
Inside 2007
Béatrice Dalle
Black Swan 2010
Barbara Hershey
Mother’s Day 2010
Rebecca De Mornay
The Butterfly Room 2012
Barbara Steele
Carrie 2013
Julianne Moore
Flowers in the Attic (2014)
Ellen Burstyn & Heather Graham
Ellen Burstyn & Heather Graham
American Horror Story (2011 -)
Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Frances Conroy & Angela Bassett
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