What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1991)

As a huge fan of the 1962 original starring film icons Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, I must admit that I have always been curious about this universally reviled made-for-TV remake. Did this updated version need to happen? Not really. Does it deserve to be scorned the way…

Seannie Darko

Absolutely obsessed by how it builds on and subverts the original. It's a sleazier and dirtier version set in a sleazier and dirtier world. The queer sensibility becomes overt exploitation. Old Hollywood glamour becomes L.A. streets flooded with prostitutes. This is how you…

jorgemol

You mean, all these years, we could have been friends? I'm completely obsessed with this casting – the fact that the film itself doesn't measure up to either Lynn or Vanessa Redgrave's talents didn't stop me from being enthralled by it. Soapy and deranged, Vanessa on a…

Cate

Dakota Fanning and Elle Fanning better remake this in 30 years.

AntisocialBoy

An extremely effective updating of a chilling story, this remake grounds the camp of the original in more realistic moderation while still clearly aware of its largely gay audience. The Redgrave sisters take these characters to totally different places and play off of each…

Michael Shawn

Legitimately a good version of this story. Helps that you've got actual sisters playing sisters, instead of two actresses who infamously didn't get along to say the least. There is that 90s movie caveat though. If you're a purist for the original better prepare yourself…

Carlo Vanstiphout

some choices were definitely made here!

•°☽Ash☾°•

Fascinating take on the infamous Baby Jane tale that transports the story to the early 90s, a world where old Hollywood is glamourized by gays and drag queens, where Jane tries to find her old movies in a video store, sure it's not as good as the original but it does enough…

Keenan Tamblyn

You could say this was an unnecessary remake, but I really did need to see Vanessa Redgrave dramatically leaving a conversation on a stair chair

mervlyn