While defending her family’s historic plantation from destruction, Charlotte, a reclusive Southern-belle spinster, calls for help from her cousin Melanie, but Melanie's arrival sparks a chain of melodramatic events that send Charlotte into madness.
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Followed up Charlotte with this drag remake/parody. I found parts of it funny but having certain bits repeated ad nauseam grated on me after a while. It's also kind of hard to successfully parody something that already verged on being parody itself.
There's clear bugetary restrictions in this drag reworking of Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), although they do a lot with a little and the overall effect works to create a dreamlike atmosphere that serves the film well. Compared to Vegas In Space (1991) this looks a million bucks.
That aside, HUSC is a mix of camp comedy and drama that might benefit from being more of one of those styles. There's an issue with pacing, in the middle part of the film particularly, where the melodrama drags (ahem...), but this resolves in the later portion.
It's interesting seeing Varla Jean Merman as the evil role, it's a strong performance and a world away from her innocent character in Girls Will…
Okay I am ignorant and did not know that drag queen movies existed.... you keep doing you drag queen movies you are unique in every way
What set's this apart from other intentionally bad drag-queen movies is the plot. This riffs on an older, similarly titled movie. Though I haven't seen the original, this certainly seems to have stayed true to the original's delightfully gothic plot. Good call. The camp factor is amusing, and Mink Stole is great as always.
This is an interesting endeavor. It's a parody of the film Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte with a majority drag queens including small bit parts by Raja Gemini, Heklina, and Honey Mahogoney. Mink Stole also plays Velma, the maid and she is quite honestly the most convincing actress. Is that what they were going for, I'm not sure, but her performance was great regardless.
I think it's because the set was so cheap, or nonexistent with assistance from a green screen, this is something I would have preferred to see done as a live show. I think nothing would have been hurt except maybe some of the cast and then the atmosphere would have definitely added to the comedy of the show.
-A campy parody of the original 1964 film, Hush...Hush Sweet Charlotte, this movie is a classic murder mystery but with drag queens filling the classic roles of Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland. Charlotte, the only daughter of a rich southern man, lives in her deceased father’s home coping with the grief from her fiance’s murder years ago. Her cousin moves in to “help” only to attempt to have her committed as insane so that she can take possession of the family home and sell off its contents. A fun film that stays true to it’s film noir roots. Difficult to judge performances due to this sort of film going for intentionally bad a lot of the time. Not a film that I typically see, nonetheless I would definitely recommend this for others.
