Diabolique (Les Diaboliques) (1955)

8	Listal rating
8.3	IMDB rating

French (4), Murder (3), Thriller (2), Drowning (2), 1950s (2), Boarding School (2), Heart Attack (2), Film Noir (2), Mistress (1), Slingshot (1), Contact Lens (1), Mystery (1), Detective (1), Domestic Violence (1), Principal (1), Prep School (1), Foreign Films (1), Private Detective (1), Power (1), Swimming Pool (1)

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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)

Directed by

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Starring (View all) :

Nicole Horner

Christina Delassalle

Michel Delassalle

Alfred Fichet, le commissaire

Jean Brochard

Plantiveau, le concierge

Pierre Larquey

M.Drain, professeur

Michel Serrault

M. Raymond, le surveillant

Thérèse Dorny

Mme. Herboux

Noël Roquevert

M. Herboux

Yves-Marie Maurin

Moinet, une jeune Moynet

Written by (View all) :

Pierre Boileau

Thomas Narcejac

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doudouce55

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

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