movie poster for HUSH...HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE

Flicks ID

12956

Cert

15

Running time

127 mins

Country

Language

Format

DVD

HUSH...HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE (1964)

ROBERT ALDRICH

Plot

Charlotte Hollis has been closeted in her mansion, a deteriorating Southern plantation, since the grisly murder of her married lover many years earlier. When the county wants to tear down the house to build a highway, the spinster's relatives and friends appear to rally behind her but each slowly preys on her mind until the gruesome rumours of the last forty years appear to be coming true. On hand are cousin Miriam, Dr Drew Bayliss, Jewel Mayhew and the scariest inhabitant of all, loyal servant Velma (the Oscar-nominated Agnes Moorehead). A beautifully atmospheric and paranoid tale of deep south gothic horror.