This offers an endless stream of indelible moments directed with ghoulish glee by Robert Aldrich.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 27, 2025

It plays on the public's subconscious resentment of film stars... Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? is an oddly vengeful movie.

| Mar 6, 2024

What could have been a campy B-movie becomes a rather touching tragedy thanks to two powerhouse lead performances from Joan Crawford and (especially) Bette Davis.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 17, 2023

The precursor to the hagsploitation craze casts two real life titans in a feud that eerily echoes real life, and moreso how Hollywood treats its aging stars. The beach finale bumps this up a full half star; Davis is fantastic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 10, 2023

Its descent into chaotic madness is exquisite, although it's overlong in the process, going into a considerable amount of detail for its depiction of escalating insanity.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 27, 2020

Bette Davis is unforgettable in classic horror movie.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 18, 2017

What Ever Happened To Baby Jane offers commentary on aging, sisterhood, and show business, all remaining worthy of discussion today.

| Apr 3, 2017

A lurid melodrama of hate, revenge and murder, a high-class horror film, in the Hitchcock vein, with virtuoso performances from Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, and moments both searing and poignant.

| Mar 5, 2017

What so often gets lost about 'Baby Jane' is that it's a real thriller, dark, suspenseful, and intense.

| Mar 3, 2017

Gorgeously atmospheric in both the visuals and the soundtrack, and it's a marathon of high-impact Grand Dame acting.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 2, 2014

[A] frightening, darkly comic picture ...

| Dec 16, 2012

The on-screen fireworks were reportedly fuelled by off-screen hatred, but the chemistry between the stars is unquestionably hair-raising and upped the Gothic stakes to camp shock levels.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 14, 2012

There are plenty of thrills and no shortage of suspense in this darkly comic horror film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 13, 2012

Remains fascinatingly warped: an extended study in decaying flesh, set to a score mordantly trying to break into Hooray for Hollywood.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 13, 2012

The ultimate camp-Gothic bitchfight. Vastly entertaining.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 13, 2012

Remains a masterclass in 'uglying up' and a relevant comment on the destructive nature of celebrity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 4, 2012

[VIDEO] "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane" is a legendary thriller worthy of its two great stars.

| Original Score: A+ | Jan 20, 2011

Depending on your sensibilities, the film is either a black camp comedy or psychological horror %u2013 either way, it's hugely entertaining

| Feb 20, 2009

The 1930s Lugosi/Karloff match-ups at Universal Studios only suggested the potential of what a decades-long feud like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford could produce.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 21, 2008

It's still vivid, barnstorming stuff.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 24, 2007