A ★★★★ review of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

Film #16 of Hooptober X: In SPAAAAAAAAAAAAACE I’m well-versed in a lot of horror subgenres, but hagsploitation is one I’m still a relative novice in. I’ve seen one or two of these films, which rely on the notion of making older women into monsters, but I’ve yet to leap into the pool at all, much less go into the deep end. Case in point: I hadn’t seen What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? until now. Inarguably the most famous hagsploitation film, it was one that had been on my list of films to see as a Bette Davis and Joan