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Rosemary Murphy, PG-13 Victor Buono, Drama, Horror, Thriller, A librarian devotes her life to caring for her wheelchair-bound tyrannical father after being stood up at the altar. Director: Roddy McDowall,
Two siblings become increasingly frightened by their grandparents' disturbing behavior while visiting them on vacation. A list of 31 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Sunset Boulevard (1950), The Star (1952), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | | Gross: The genre was inaugurated in 1962 with the film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Robert Fuller, R
3,542 $19.03M, Passed The daughter of a psychotic magician must stay in his mansion for seven nights in order to inherit his fortune. Stars: Wesley Addy, Votes: Planned anthology series centering on famous feuds, including Bette Davis and Joan Crawford that is discontinued at the moment. 98 min Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom. 82 min
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| 96 min | | | 101 min Kai-Peter Malina, | Gross: | James Caan, | Ursina Lardi, Votes: Stars: Teenagers Libby and Kit innocently spend an evening making random prank calls. | While the subgenre has existed over a broad time period, it is closely tied to the 1960s, and the end of the Classical Hollywood Era. Deanna Dunagan, Director: Freddie Francis $5.00M, Mainly about aliens,but structured like a classical psycho-biddy, Not Rated
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| Director: 2017, Erin Harrington, Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror, →ISBN: $61.28M, Approved This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. George Edwards,
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[1], Mad Magazine poked fun at the genre in 1966 with a movie musical satire entitled "Hack, Hack Sweet Has-Been-or Whatever Happened to Good Taste?"[3]. Joan Crawford, | Oliver Reed,
An aging widow hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to keep buried. | | Bette Davis, Stars: Tessa Wyatt, Mainly horror film but resembling the psycho -biddy, PG Paul Henreid | Biography, Drama. Dennis Weaver,
Micheál MacLiammóir, R Director: Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Parley Baer, Unrated Horror, Thriller. Drama, Mystery, Romance. | Geraldine Page, Joan Crawford, 93 min Debbie Reynolds, Ralph Richardson, Not Rated Crime, Musical, Mystery. | Biography, Drama. Chloe Franks, John Hough, Peter Vaughan,
© Letterboxd Limited. These calls lead to murderous consequences. M. Night Shyamalan Tell us what you think about this feature. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Tweet Share Post Bookmark. |
Film data from TMDb. Aug 16, 2020 - Hagsploitation & Hag Horror films are a sub genre of horror movies that appeared after the huge success of What Ever Happened to Baby jane? An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative. 10 Grand Hagsploitation Horror Movies No wire hangers, just 10 great psycho-biddy thrillers. Directors: Stars: Drama, Horror, Thriller. Stars: A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
William Conrad Carrie Snodgress,
Richard Farnsworth, | Drama, Horror, Thriller. Renata Adler, in her New York Times review for the 1968 film The Anniversary, referred to the genre as "the Terrifying Older Actress Filicidal Mummy genre."[2]. | | 116 min Upgrade to a Letterboxd Pro account to add your favorite services to this list—including any service and country pair listed on JustWatch—and to enable one-click filtering by all your favorites. Soldiers in a rural English town are being brutally murdered by an unknown creature. The genre was inaugurated in 1962 with the film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Psycho-biddy (also known as Grande Dame Guignol, hagsploitation and hag horror) is a film subgenre which combines elements of the horror, thriller and woman's film genres, which conventionally feature a formerly-glamorous older woman who has become mentally unbalanced and terrorizes those around her. Crime, Horror, Thriller. Published 2016-08-05T08:09:42Z Updated 2018-07-28T19:43:48Z. Director: | Connie Stevens, Eileen Heckart, Mainly a ghost movie,but contains basic characteristics of the biddy, R | |
Frances Sternhagen, Votes: A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot. The working-class twin sister of a callous, wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes her identity. Faye Dunaway, Stars: Judy Davis, Mystery, Thriller.
Ronald Squire, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Wendy Craig, Diana Dors, Leif Erickson, An encounter with a mysterious refugee forces Lore to rely on a person she has always been taught to hate.
Seth Holt Frank Perry Joan Crawford, | Gross:
But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated. Drama, Horror, Mystery. | Gross: 110 min Stars: Burgess Meredith,
Stars: Directors: Jim O'Connolly Stars: | A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion. Horror, Mystery, Thriller. | Maurice Denham, Not Rated Stars: Jennie Linden, Carroll Baker, Votes: 133 min Bernard Girard
| 84 min Joan Crawford, | Stars:
Maurice Kaufmann, Approved | A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist. Made by fans in Auckland, New Zealand. William Castle Olivia de Havilland,
180,058 | | A family moves into a large old mansion that seems to have a mysterious and maybe even sinister power over their actions.
Jackie Hoffman, M/PG | [1] Thus, while there are many entries into the subgenre which exist outside of this decade (it is preceded by such films as Sunset Boulevard and The Star, and followed by Misery and Mommie Dearest), it should be primarily considered within the context of the dying studio system. Stars: James Caan, 109 min Gary Graver Jennifer Billingsley,
After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.
| 100 min Director: | All these aforementioned films confirm that the genre still has cinematic potential. Karen Black, Jessica Lange, Cate Shortland
Cesar Romero, 129 min List of blaxploitation films. Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Janet is a young student at a private school; her nights are troubled by horrible dreams in which she sees her mother, who is in fact locked in an insane asylum, haunting her. | (1962), Lady in a Cage (1964), Strait-Jacket (1964), The Night Walker (1964) and Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964).
Crime, Drama, Thriller. Menu. William Russ, Votes: Horror, Thriller. Stars: Nele Trebs, A man long believed dead returns to the family estate to claim his inheritance. Robert Aldrich | James Villiers, Approved Vincent McEveety Olivia de Havilland, 14,091
After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior. |
A young woman is terrorized by her deceased fiancé's demented mother who blames her for her son's death. | William Castle | Expelled ... See full summary », Director: As the Allies sweep across Germany, Lore leads her siblings on a journey that exposes them to the truth of their parents' beliefs.
Drama, Thriller. | | | | Flora Robson, Oliver Reed, Stars: 83 min (their respective central characters are both psychotically deranged, formerly-glamorous older women) and can be seen as a precursor to the genre.
| Sheila Burrell, Director: | Karl Malden, Stars: Stars: Stars: Michael Gough, Not Rated
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Director: Director: The 1950 Billy Wilder classic Sunset Boulevard shares thematic similarities with What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? |
Two sisters living nearby realize they might understand what's happening. Popularly referred to as “hagsploitation” or “psycho-biddy” cinema, the genre of the Grande Dame Guignol was born, unintentionally, in 1962 by horror film director Robert Aldrich. 97 min | | Olivia de Havilland,
Mark Lester, She fantasizes about causing deaths of the men who most wronged her and ... See full summary », Directors: Henry Koster Howard St. John, Unrated Director: Kyle Richards, The abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford, is depicted. A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums. | Stars: 91 min
$65.21M, A new one,but in the tradition of the psycho -biddy, PG Erich von Stroheim, Crime, Drama, Mystery. 48,962
Brenda Bruce, Not Rated Jill Bennett, Stars: Walter Grauman Lynn-Holly Johnson,
Rafael Campos, Votes:
| | Beryl Reid, David Knight, Curtis Harrington For the Feud episode, see, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Psycho-biddy&oldid=979980946, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 23 September 2020, at 22:15. Jan Rubes,
107 min A wheelchair-bound young woman returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate. Stefanie Powers, TV Shows. Hungry for another hit, Warner pressures Bob into bringing the original team back together for another project, while Joan receives a surprising blackmail threat. When a family moves to a country home, the young girls experience strange happenings that have a link to an occult event years past.
Stars: Bette Davis, Shelley Winters, Tallulah Bankhead, Director:
| Gross: Ann Todd, 107 min Bette Davis, 101 min
Stars: Stars: (1962), Lady in a Cage (1964) and Strait-Jacket (1964). Directed by Tim Minear.
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