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· Year: 1964
· Also known as: Cross of Iron, What Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte?
· Director: Robert Aldrich
· Writer: Lukas Heller, Henry Farrell
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· Based on Henry Farrell's novel Whatever Happened to Cousin Charlotte?.
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A spinster who has spent most of her adult life in seclusion after the death of her beloved may be going insane as she tries to prevent her mansion from destruction in the name of progress.
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RATING
Out of 100 |
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| COLD ANALYSIS |
| 4.0 -ATMOSPHERE |
| 2.0 -GORE |
| 3.0 -HUMOR |
| 3.75 -SCARES |
| 4.0 -TENSION |
When I was a kid, I identified Hush . . . Hush, Sweet Charlotte as the scariest movie I'd ever seen. And now that I'm an adult, I still have to acknowledge it as one of the most atmospheric. About an aging Louisiana spinster (Bette Davis) living alone in her decaying plantation house 40 years after the meat-cleaver murder of her married lover of which she has been long-assumed guilty, this film is kind of at the horror Ground-Zero on my book: melancholy, tragic, spooky, outrageous, silly, and a bit over-the-top. Charlotte seems to define whatever that quality is that makes a creepy old house with dark corners and a macabre history perfect fodder for the horror genre. And only in the strange, Cold War peak of the early sixties would such a film have been produced to such perfect result.
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