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search  Psycho-biddy is a colloquial term for a sub-genre of the
horror/thriller movie also known by the name Older women in
peril, which was most prevalent from the early 1960s through the
mid-1970s.[1] The genre has also been variously nicknamed by the
press as "hagsploitation", "hag horror" and "Grande Dame
Guignol." In her review in the New York Times for the 1968 film,
The Anniversary, Renata Adler referred to the genre as "the
Terrifying Older Actress Filicidal Mummy genre," adding that
"the genre isn't that distinguished after all."[2]  Definition,
themes and influences[edit]  Psycho-biddy thrillers are a
bricolage of many genre elements and themes: gothic, Grand
Guignol, black comedy, psycho-drama, melodrama, revenge, camp
and even the musical. Science fiction and Western films have
also been part of the genre. However, none of these nor their
combination, mark a particular movie as belonging to this
peculiar sub-genre.  A psycho-biddy movie,