It seems like all sorts of black and white movies center on a group of people cooped up in a big house while some sort of mystery unfolds. There’s generally a questionable character lurking around, an alarming body count…and a rainstorm. They don’t make ’em like they used to, but The Bat is a not-so-classic …
The premise of The Baby is enough to make you want to cover your eyes and run screaming for the hills. The baby, simply called Baby (David Manzy) is actually a full grown man, aged somewhere between twenty and thirty, who lives (in the manner of a baby) with his mother (Ruth Roman) and adult …
We meet Baby Jane as a ringleted child star, who is a cutesy song-and-dance toast of the vaudeville circuit. She is so popular, she even has creepy life-sized dolls of herself for sale after the show. This kid looks more than a little like Nellie Oleson from Little House on the Prairie, and backstage, we …
Given the choice between watching young Bette Davis out on the town or older Bette Davis cooped up in a house, I’ll always take the latter. In fact, I don’t think there has ever been a better crazy recluse than Bette, and Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte is a monument to her skills. As the film begins, …