Diabolique

Diabolique
7.9

Diabolique

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Directed by: Henri-Georges Clouzot

Overview

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.

Diabolique

Reviews (2)

  • talisencrw (Rated: 10)

    I have only seen but two of Clouzot's films (this and the equally brilliant 'The Wages of Fear'), but I understand immediately what connoisseurs mean when they say he's the French Alfred Hitchcock. He has an innate and unbelievably vivid and accurate take on human nature. I can't wait to check out t...

  • John Chard (Rated: 10)

    The keys in the pool, the husband in the morgue! You dream too much about water in this house!

    Headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delaselle (Paul Meurisse) is a brooding bully of a man, one day his wife and mistress decide enough is enough and plot to kill him, trouble is that once they murd...

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