In The Shining (1980), Jack (Jack Nicholson) enters the haunted room 237 and is greeted by a young naked woman (Lia Beldam). She rises from the bathtub and approaches him with a flirtatious embrace.

With only the most obvious references to horror staples and a juvenile handle on aging, Max and Sam Eggers’ genre exercise doesn’t deserve Kathryn Hunter’s clever and crafty performance. Hunched, ...

Call them psycho-biddy films, hagsploitation, hag horror, whatever you like, the sub-genre has been chugging along since at least the 60s, beginning with Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?. Once focused ...

The Bette Davis/Joan Crawford film led to a sub-genre of "Hagsploitation" horror featuring seasoned female stars as villains – but did this benefit or demean them, asks Thomas Hobbs. "I wouldn’t give ...

Episode six opens with Joan Crawford starring in a ridiculously cheesy trailer for a probably-awful horror film called Strait-Jacket. This was back during the era when movie trailers explicitly warned ...

If we live long enough, we won’t be spared from seeing the misfortunes of old age sneak into our bodies, unmercifully deteriorating the things — like healthy hair and intact teeth — we once took for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If we live long enough, we won’t be spared from seeing the misfortunes of old age sneak into our bodies, unmercifully ...