Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Claire Dunne One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Joseph Kearny Not a sequel to 1962's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, but an obvious attempt to duplicate Baby Jane's success with Davis once again playing a character haunted by the past until the last scene reveals the truth. Despite a classy production, a plot lifted from Gaslight and Diabolique and 7 Academy Award nominations, Hush...Hush comes closer to Strait Jacket(63)than to Baby Jane. Davis and Moorehead are shameless, Davis' non-stop screeching becomes annoying, and Aldrich's direction drags out the cumbersome plot. Victor Buono, Mary Astor and a perfectly cast Olivia DeHaviland, provide some compensation, but couldn't someone have taken a cleaver to Cecil Kellaway? Davis' fans will be pleased though I prefer The Nanny 1965, The Anniversary 1968 and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

poe-48833 HUSH... HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE was one of those chillers that chilled me when I saw it on television as a kid. Too much water under the bridge in the succeeding years has dulled its edge in my estimation, but it's STILL a solid bit of business. "It's only real when it's dark," the creepy Davis intones: "Dark and still..." The assortment of Sordid Southerners here are as quirky and creepy as they come- and the import (the lovely Olivia De Havilland) stacks the deck further still as far as Grand Guignol goes. "Innocent fancies can become fixed delusions," Joseph Cotton tells De Havilland. Amen, brother. Were someone to do yet a third version of WILLARD, they could do far worse than to evoke the kind of unsettling Southern Charm gone Guignol that HUSH... HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE delivers.

Fuzzy Wuzzy Released in 1964 - Hush-Hush, Sweet Charlotte is just one of those "damned-if-you-do/damned-if-you-don't" movies where you seem to already know what's going to happen about 10 minutes before it actually does.Yes. There were a few surprises awaiting the viewer, but this "Let's-Drive-Charlotte-Insane" picture should have been, literally, loaded to the rafters with shocks & shivers galore.Upon checking this film's ratings & reviews here on IMDb I noticed that plenty of people have given high praise to both actresses Bette Davis and Agnes Moorehead for their decidedly over-the-top, scenery-chewing performances.And even though the character portrayals of these 2 women did have a compelling edge to them at the start, their exaggerated, overly-excitable histrionics quickly became quite annoying and, worse yet, something of a repugnantly twisted parody, which did not ring with any sort of essential humour.The one actress who I thought was a notable standout was Olivia De Havilland who played a very effective villainess as Charlotte's cousin, Mariam Deering. I thought that it was one of the film's biggest highlights when Mariam's sweet, chirpy facade was finally stripped away to expose the truly vicious and calculating bitch that lurked within.Now, don't get me wrong here. I wouldn't exactly say that "Hush-Hush, Sweet Charlotte" was a lousy movie, but, then again, it certainly wasn't great, either.The one thing that this film had going against it was its 132-minute running time. Had a good half-hour been skillfully edited from this picture, I think that that would have done wonders in helping to sustain this film's dragged-out suspense and, thus, keep the viewer continually interested throughout the story.While I patiently watched this 1964 Horror/Thriller it clearly donned on me how much "bargain-basement" director Robert Aldrich was (seemingly) trying to emulate the likes of Alfred Hitchcock.But, alas, Aldrich was not in Hitchcock's league and so, as a result, this film's story was very uneven, badly-paced and its cast delivered performances that could only be described as being somewhat mechanical.P.S. - I quite liked singer Al Martino's rendition of this film's title song, which was nicely timed and was appropriately sung during the final sequence of this picture's sad, guilt-ridden story.

Syl This is an almost perfect film except for some flawed writing. Agnes Moorhead earned a well deserved Academy Award nomination as best ing actress in her role as Velma Crothers, Charlotte's devoted and loyal housekeeper. Agnes Moorhead should have been a leading lady rather than ing player. Film legends Bette Davis and Olivia De Havilland play cousins, Charlotte and Miriam. The Hollis plantation in Hollisport, Louisiana needs to come down to build the bridge. Charlotte won't leave her home and would stop anybody in her way. Nice ing performances by Cecil Kellaway and Joseph Cotten. The film was supposed to reunite Bette Davis and Joan Crawford but Olivia DeHavilland's performance is full of surprises and well worth watching overall.