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Although elderly people in films are usually portrayed as benign and lovable, sometimes an old character comes along that’s way too creepy, like the Reverend Henry Kane in Poltergeist II, the decaying lady in the bath tub from The Shining, and the terrible trio in Trash Humpers, showing this weekend at Madcap Theaters in Tempe.
We recently sat down to discuss five other creepy old people in films with Madcap Theaters’ Andrea Beesley-Brown, a.k.a. the Midnite Movie Mamacita. Here’s where the golden years get a little bloody.
Anguish (Luna Films, 1987):
This is a Spanish film, and it’s beautifully done. It’s a fantasy gore kind of film, with a weird psychedelic ambiance. It’s definitely an artful horror movie. Zelda Rubenstein is creepy in it, but what movie isn’t she creepy in? She plays the mother of this character that becomes a serial killer, but he’s like a mama’s boy. She’s definitely the dominating mother, even though she’s this really small person. She manipulates him and makes him do things.
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2. Grey Gardens (Portrait Films, 1975):
It’s kind of mean to say there are creepy old people in this, because the people are real, but they are so creepy. This is a documentary about old women related to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis — one’s her aunt, and another is her cousin. And they’re these really eccentric old ladies who live in this decaying mansion in East Hampton. It’s like they’ve fallen from grace, and they have this beautiful mansion, but it’s totally unkempt. Wild animals get in there, they’re hoarders, and they’re so removed from the world. Trees have grown over the mansion, and they have their groceries delivered. It’s really sad. It’s like, how do these ladies survive?
