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Les Diaboliques (The Fiends) is an unsettling and beautifully-paced study of betrayal, mistrust and guilt. In a decaying boarding school, a sadistic headmaster brutalizes his fragile wife and his headstrong mistress. The two women murder him and dump his body in a swimming pool; when the pool is drained, no corpse is found.
An acknowledged influence on Psycho, Henri-Georges Clouzot's horror classic expertly keeps the viewer gripped in a manner that recalls Hitchcock at his very best. Atmospherically shot in black and white, its murky tones hauntingly echo the moral ambiguity of its principals.
- Arrow Video
- Henri-Georges Clouzot
- 12
- Vera Clouzot
- Simone Signoret
- Paul Meurisse
- Aspect Ratio 4:3
English
- 1955
- French
- 1
- Free
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Les Diaboliques (The Fiends) is an unsettling and beautifully-paced study of betrayal, mistrust and guilt. In a decaying boarding school, a sadistic headmaster brutalizes his fragile wife and his headstrong mistress. The two women murder him and dump his body in a swimming pool; when the pool is drained, no corpse is found.
An acknowledged influence on Psycho, Henri-Georges Clouzot's horror classic expertly keeps the viewer gripped in a manner that recalls Hitchcock at his very best. Atmospherically shot in black and white, its murky tones hauntingly echo the moral ambiguity of its principals.
- Arrow Video
- Henri-Georges Clouzot
- 12
- Vera Clouzot
- Simone Signoret
- Paul Meurisse
- Aspect Ratio 4:3
English
- 1955
- French
- 1
- Free
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Interesting and influential
Les Diaboliques is an incredibly interesting and influential film! The wife of an abusive headmaster and his mistress conspire to kill him. They dump the body in a dirty swimming pool in the grounds of the school, but when the pool is drained the body had disappeared... Thus begins a tense psychological thriller, one that I would highly recommend.
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