Film · 1962 · Films · 1960s
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Scored from 264 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
In a decaying Hollywood mansion, two aging sisters live off the remains of their careers: Jane Hudson, a onetime vaudeville child star billed as 'Baby Jane,' and Blanche, the more successful screen actress of the 1930s who has used a wheelchair since the car accident that ended her career. Jane, drinking heavily and nursing decades of resentment, controls the house, the telephone and Blanche's meals while rehearsing a comeback act with a hired accompanist. When Blanche moves to sell the house, Jane's cruelty escalates and the sisters' isolation deepens. Robert Aldrich's black-and-white psychological horror-thriller pairs Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is a 1962 drama, horror and thriller film. It is rated Approved. The runtime is 134 minutes. It was made in the United States.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,648 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 264 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 269 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,928 1960s films, not against the whole corpus.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1960s (1,929 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 264.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
