Cinema has a long history of women losing their minds on film.
So when someone recently requested movies “where one of the female characters is literally bats*** crazy,” it wasn’t too difficult for other movie lovers to deliver a wonderful variety of suggestions.
Multiple respondents recommended What Ever Happened to Baby Jane which centers on the titular Baby Jane (Bette Davis) as an adult who psychologically tortures her older paraplegic sister.
In Pearl we see the bright-eyed and hopeful young sociopath’s dreams of stardom dashed, and in X we see the consequences of her being forced to live an ordinary life.
A very recent film also starring Mia Goth, Infinity Pool shows that she may be the current queen of “bats*** crazy.” As one person who recommended Infinity Pool said “anything starring Mia Goth” would be a good fit for what the original poster was looking for.