Diaboliques, Les - Trailer (1955)

The wife and 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' (and the audience) up the wall with almost unbearable suspense...

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[ginafaloola]

they really don't want you to reveal the ending. lol

[BeatenAndTortured]

I watched this film alone at 2 in the morning.

Before - "It's from the 50's. How bad could it be?"

After - "AAAAAAAGH!!!!!"

[Vladislaw81]

@readtherightbooks The only film made me finally decide to make my own full length feature movie. Shot on 35 mm, with actors, based on 3 stories by some writer, and sold to some company. No way back. Clouzot has made the Masterpiece. To my mind, it's difficult to make something better.

[Vladislaw81]

@TiocfaidhArIa It was released it 1990, director is Adrian Lyne.

I like the "Diabloiques" too much.

[Vladislaw81]

@BeatenAndTortured Actually, films of 1950's are better than modern films.

This was the film where Clouzot outperformed Hitchcock. Although Hitchcock made good films, too, this film alone costs all Hitch's films. IMHO.

[teluia]

@ginafaloola

Without giving away the film, it illustrate that allowing oneself to be powerless for a long period of time, while projecting the cause of that powerlessness towards another person with hate and resentment, can lead to the kempt internal chaos expressing itself in a futile disaster. It is very lengthy for a sudden yet clever ending. However, this was in an era different from today's desire for the immediate media satisfaction. Still, it is highly enjoyable and suspenseful throughout

[teluia]

@isocrate27

I thought it was the zombie apocalypse. Actually, in a way it is.

[TiocfaidhArIa]

@DogsHelpAndSupport Jacob's Ladder? I've never heard of it- when was it released? I personally think you can't get anything creepier than "The Innocents" (1961), a film which really messes with your head, because it shows NOTHING awful, but subtly suggests all sorts of nameless horrors, possibly of a sexual nature. 5 stars.

[isocrate27]

Let me reveal the ending for you: it's a dinosaur swimming in the pool.

[DogsHelpAndSupport]

No, the scariest movie ever made (and it's been proven) is Jacob's Ladder. It nearly made me shit my pants.

[ArBoBsIsE]

All the older horror films are sooooo much more scarier than all the modern horrors today I think

[co0kii]

was deciding upon whether to watch this.. or a disney film in french..before i sleep

from the sounds of it...i think i'll stick with disney tonight... and watch this during the day