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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs  Les Diaboliques (1955) |
An absolute classic film, and one of the best chillers ever made
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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs It's a mean and moody piece with a pervading Gothic gloom throughout and everything from the women protagonists to the school in which the film is set has a graveyard stench of neglect. Hitchcockian in style with twists galore and a finale that is truly diabolical (cough) climaxing in a final shot that suggests more was to come |
Hitch tried to get the film rights to the book 'She Who Was No More' by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, which this film was based on, but he lost out to Henri-Georges Clouzot, who directed it instead
Thwarted, Hitch went after a little know, pulp fiction story by Robert Bloch instead...
I've always wondered what would have happened if he had been able to make 'Les Diaboliques' instead of 'Psycho', although I cannot see him bettering this masterpiece