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Diaboliques (Les diaboliques)
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Christina Delasalle, a fragile young wife with a weak heart, and Nicole Horner, a strong, forceful 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';; up the wall with almost unbearable suspense...
Christina Delasalle, a fragile young wife with a weak heart, and Nicole Horner, a strong, forceful 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';; up the wall with almost unbearable suspense...
Actors:
Jacques Hilling,
Noël Roquevert,
VĂ©ra Clouzot,
Jean Clarieux,
Georges Poujouly,
Jean TĂ©merson,
Christian Brocard,
Jean Lefebvre,
Pierre Larquey,
ThérÚse Dorny,
Camille Guérini,
...»
Jacques Hilling
22 May 1926, Randwick, Australia
Noël Roquevert
18 December 1892, Doué-la-Fontaine, Maine-et-Loire, France
VĂ©ra Clouzot
30 December 1913, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jean Clarieux
April 3, 1911 in La Rochelle, Charente-Inférieure [now Charente-Maritime], France
Georges Poujouly
20 January 1940, Garches, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Jean TĂ©merson
12 June 1898, Paris, France
Christian Brocard
15 July 1930, Auxerre, Yonne, France
Jean Lefebvre
3 October 1919, Valenciennes, Nord, France
Pierre Larquey
10 July 1884, CĂ©nac, Gironde, France
ThérÚse Dorny
18 September 1891, Paris, France
Camille Guérini
29 June 1900, Lorient, Morbihan, France
Director:
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Henri-Georges Clouzot
20 November 1907, Niort, Deux-SĂšvres, France
Country:
United States
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January 05, 2012
So dependent on visuals, many horror films do not wear well except as kitsch. But crafted fright films like Diabolique maintain their power by creating atmosphere through what is not seen.August 13, 2007
Cruel, sour, and -- unfortunately -- very effective.June 17, 2011
...[a] demonic clockwork thriller.January 01, 2000
With a deliciously curvy and complex plot, Diabolique is a masterpiece of suspense -- as accomplished as anything done by Hitchcock.January 29, 2012
One of the best horror-thrillers of the classic era, and a massively inspirational piece of cinema.February 24, 2017
Rarely if ever has such a wallow in the sickeningly macabre been passed for distribution in this country.August 13, 2007
Although this has a few hallucinating bits of terror, the film is primarily a creaky-door type of melodrama.
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May 20, 2003
This is one of the dandiest mystery dramas that has shown here in goodness knows when.June 30, 2014
Like the greater of Hitchcock's essential films, the movie is a skillful marriage of ingredients that tread dangerously close to the edge of reasoning while still absorbing them in impeccable artistic standards.January 26, 2006
A great piece of Guignol misanthropy.March 04, 2016
... widely regarded as one of the most terrifying films of all time.January 01, 2000
[Creates] a diabolical double-reverse plot that keeps the audience guessing right up to the thoroughly implausible final scene.