It'd be amazing trying to make a movie like Mommie Dearest now because of how unbelievably complicated Joan Crawford was as a person. I say this not to diminish her actions because she was an abusive piece of shit but man oh man does this movie ever portray her exclusively as a comic book villain.
I think that's why Mommie Dearest fails as a prestige drama and succeeds as a camp film, because there's so little nuance to Joan, every…