1955 · horror · thriller · french
Diabolique
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot1h 58m1955
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.
Our read: Diabolique (1955) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive horror · thriller · french entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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