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Diaboliques (1955)
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...
3 October 1919, Valenciennes, Nord, France
8 November 1894, Mantes-la-Jolie, Yvelines, France
18 December 1892, Doué-la-Fontaine, Maine-et-Loire, France
19 April 1944, Toulouse, Haute Garonne, France
12 March 1893, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays-de-la-Loire, France
10 July 1884, Cénac, Gironde, France
25 March 1921, Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
30 March 1901, Paris, France
21 December 1912, Dunkerque, Nord, France
June 17, 2011
...[a] demonic clockwork thriller.
January 01, 2000
[Creates] a diabolical double-reverse plot that keeps the audience guessing right up to the thoroughly implausible final scene.
August 13, 2007
Although this has a few hallucinating bits of terror, the film is primarily a creaky-door type of melodrama.
March 04, 2016
... widely regarded as one of the most terrifying films of all time.
January 26, 2006
A great piece of Guignol misanthropy.
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 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.
May 20, 2003
This is one of the dandiest mystery dramas that has shown here in goodness knows when.
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.
February 24, 2017
Rarely if ever has such a wallow in the sickeningly macabre been passed for distribution in this country.
August 13, 2007
Cruel, sour, and -- unfortunately -- very effective.
