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Diabolique (Les Diaboliques) (1955)

8 Listal rating
8.3 IMDB rating

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The wife and mistress of a sadistic boarding school headmaster plot to kill him. They drown him in the bathtub and dump the body in the school's filthy swimming pool... but when the pool is drained, the body has disappeared - and subsequent reported sightings of the headmaster slowly drive his 'killers' (and the audience) up the wall with almost un ... (more)


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Starring (View all) :
Simone Signoret

Simone Signoret

Nicole Horner
Véra Clouzot

Véra Clouzot

Christina Delassalle
Paul Meurisse

Paul Meurisse

Michel Delassalle
Charles Vanel

Charles Vanel

Alfred Fichet, le commissaire
Jean Brochard

Jean Brochard

Plantiveau, le concierge
Pierre Larquey

Pierre Larquey

M.Drain, professeur
Michel Serrault

Michel Serrault

M. Raymond, le surveillant
Thérèse Dorny

Thérèse Dorny

Mme. Herboux
Noël Roquevert

Noël Roquevert

M. Herboux
Yves-Marie Maurin

Yves-Marie Maurin

Moinet, une jeune Moynet


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worthy of Hitchcock

Posted : 1 year, 6 months ago at Apr 27 11:52
Clouzot directs with a cruelty that combines a nastily tangled storyline worthy of Hitchcock with three strong performances (one of which is the beautiful Simone Signoret) and a seedy setting.
There are scenes of physical horror, but Clouzot also sets the flesh creeping with incidences of ordinary nastiness.


The remake with Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri and Sharon Stone just isn’t as scary or eerie as the 1954 original.

Rating : 9/10