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Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962)
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane is one of the most tense and effective horror - thriller films I've ever seen. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford are perfect in the role of sisters, Baby Jane and Blanche. They play off each other almost like they're competing. The photography is wonderful, the black and white photography is suberb. The direction by Aldrich is masterful, subtle and tense.
Bette Davis plays Baby Jane Hudson an ex-child star who's sister, Blanche's latter success as an actress overshadowed Baby Jane's. Later on in life, Blanche is paralyzed from the waist down and Baby Jane, now psychotic and deranged looks after her. What follows is a series of tense and terrifying scenes leading up to a genius finale.
The ending of Baby Jane is incredible - it is one of the best twists in film history - executed perfectly and completly spooky.
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