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Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Forty years ago, Charlotte Hollis'd been witness to the dismemberment murder of her fiance and the suicide of the murderer, her own father. Now, plagued by the horrifying family secret, she descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
18 February 1925, New York City, New York, USA
9 November 1952, Queens, New York, USA
7 March 1909, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
3 February 1938, San Diego, California, USA
6 December 1900, Clinton, Massachusetts, USA
17 October 1944, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 June 1911, Racine, Wisconsin, USA
25 December 1906, Ferndale, California, USA
13 August 1909, Chicago, Illinois, USA
29 April 1918, New York, USA
1 July 1896, Pendleton, Indiana, USA
May 22, 2005
This film is bonkers ... heady Southern Gothic decadence, histrionics from just about everyone involved, and severed body parts that pop up at the most inopportune times.
August 03, 2012
This well executed and well acted Gothic horror is Aldrich's follow-up to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? which also starred Bette Davis.
January 01, 2000
It was camp before the term was coined, but it's somewhat better than that, too.
August 01, 2005
If it's Grand Guignol you're after, here's where you'll find it.
October 29, 2005
Davis has some authentic, poignant moments, before all hell breaks loose.
October 10, 2006
Davis' near-crazed performance being over-the-top but satisfying in a campy way.
June 24, 2006
Over the top, of course, and not a lot to it, but it's efficiently directed, beautifully shot (Joseph Biroc), and contains enough scary sequences amid the brooding, tense atmosphere.
September 19, 2005
Director Aldrich's work on Baby Jane was already a study in hysteria, and his style for Charlotte is, if anything, even more ornate.
May 09, 2005
So calculated and coldly carpentered is the tale of murder, mayhem and deceit that Mr. Aldrich stages in this mansion that it soon appears grossly contrived, purposely sadistic and brutally sickening.
October 17, 2016
[A] heady brew for fans of Hollywood's golden age gone bananas.
October 17, 2016
Aldrich piles on a series of scream-in-the-night shocks, the better to batten a script strikingly short of sneakier surprises.
June 08, 2007
Bette Davis in her late, creepy mode...and still effective.