Hollywood Horror House has been forgotten for far too long which is unfortunate, because it's one of the most entertaining of the films that followed in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane's wake featuring faded former Hollywood leading ladies anxious to play the most grotesque characters imaginable.
The star in question here is Miriam Hopkins who plays a faded former film start with a pretty terrible drinking problem (she collapses down the stairs during a drunken delusion when we first meet her) and she lives with her minimal staff in a stunning and well maintained Hollywood mansion, seemingly content living in her dreamworld like a slightly more stable Norma Desmond. Everything changes when a mysterious young drifter infiltrates her inner circle and the bodycount rises.
Unlike many of the other Baby Jane clones, this film had the luxury of coming at the start of the 70's where it was becoming apparent that anything you could dream up content wise could get on screen, so there's a lot more sleaze and gore in this film than some of the others. It's sometimes silly, but it's always entertaining.
The star in question here is Miriam Hopkins who plays a faded former film start with a pretty terrible drinking problem (she collapses down the stairs during a drunken delusion when we first meet her) and she lives with her minimal staff in a stunning and well maintained Hollywood mansion, seemingly content living in her dreamworld like a slightly more stable Norma Desmond. Everything changes when a mysterious young drifter infiltrates her inner circle and the bodycount rises.
Unlike many of the other Baby Jane clones, this film had the luxury of coming at the start of the 70's where it was becoming apparent that anything you could dream up content wise could get on screen, so there's a lot more sleaze and gore in this film than some of the others. It's sometimes silly, but it's always entertaining.