This movie was insane. I thought that I'd watched What Ever Happened To Baby Jane because I had seen so many clips and such. I did the same thing with Ghostbusters a few years back. This movie was intense as hell. I starts with this little girl named Baby Jane performing on stage with her father as her mother and sister Blanche watch from backstage. After the show Jane is acting like a little shit in front of everyone and Blanche's mom is like “When you grow up please don't be like her.”
As they grow up Jane is a trash ass actress while Blanche becomes all famous and everyone loves her. Blanche has a thing in her contract where if she gets a role her sister has to have a part. One night after coming home Jane, tired of living in her sisters shadow, runs her ass over with the car and puts her in a wheelchair. They find Jane somewhere else days later. Its not a good look.
The two of them are living together in a mansion where Jane's job is to fuck with her sister. Jane is not allowed outside the house, to read her mail, to have people over, and only has one friend. Her pet bird. Well, Jane kills it and serves it to her on a platter. Blanche leave sit so Jane starts to fuck with her food. She serves her a giant rat she found. Meanwhile the helper, Elvira knows that Jane is with the shits and calls her out. Jane has her fired and one day she gets back into the house and sees Blanche tied to the bed. Jane bonks her on the head killing her.
Jane wants a friend so hires this dude who pretends to be English and play piano named Edwin. This dude is a creep. He wants to fleece her for money and she wants to drain her sister dry. One day Edwin wanders upstairs and spots Blanche tied up and runs out the house screaming. Jane is like “He gonna tell!” She drags her sister to the car and they go to the beach. By now everyone knows they are missing. They are found at the beach after Jane wants some ice cream but not until after Blanche, who looks like she about to die is like “Hey. You didn't run me over. You were drunk and I drove and the car crushed me. Oh, and you used to be pretty. Byyyyye.” The police finally spot her ice cream stealing ass as she dances because people are watching her.
This movie was like Misery but personal. I think its fucked up that Blanche never told Jane that she was innocent of crippling her, but the fact that Jane did some horrid shit afterward like keeping her away from the world and serving her an entire dead pet bird was too much. Like, just kill her already. You don't need to spend decades just destroying this woman.
Bette Davis as Jane Hudson
Joan Crawford as Blanche Hudson
Victor Buono as Edwin Flagg
Maidie Norman as Elvira Stitt
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