# Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

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**Runtime**: 133 min
**Genres**: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
**Directed by**: Robert Aldrich
**Written by**: Lukas Heller, Henry Farrell
**Starring**: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Cecil Kellaway, Victor Buono

> *The years will soon erase a lover's lies...the blood on his face!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Louisiana, then. Cicadas. A bloodstain only she can see.

Charlotte hoards her plantation, 1927’s unsolved murder still raw, until cousin Miriam arrives to help. Or help herself.

Aldrich understood how camp theatrics could amplify gothic horror.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, dread, tender

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