The Psycho-Biddy genre

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Feb 29, 2020 7:06 pm

Psycho-biddy is a colloquial term for a film subgenre which combines elements of the horror thriller and the Woman's Film which conventionally features a formerly-glamorous older woman who has become mentally unbalanced and terrorizes those around her. The genre was inaugurated in 1962 with the film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and lasted through the mid-1970s. Renata Adler, in her New York Times review for the 1968 film The Anniversary, referred to the genre as "the Terrifying Older Actress Filicidal Mummy genre."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho-biddy

And here's where we can post our favourite examples of the genre. Excited

by Guest Sat Feb 29, 2020 7:42 pm

Oh I thought it was a pychobilly for boomers

by Nightjar Sun Mar 01, 2020 11:56 am

Didn't Wendi do a commentary of the wonderful What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? a while ago only to conclude that it was (in her wrong opinion) a load of old bobbins? Colbert