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Diaboliques, Les 1955
Clouzot, a rather unknown French director shot Diabolique based on a novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac entitled Celle Qui N'etait Plus. The claustrophobic environments, the harsh characters became an inspiration to even Hitchcock, who had his own famous bath scene. During its first weeks after release the critics condemned the violence towards the sick of the two women. The photography is straight forward like in a news show, making the violence look more realistic. Diabolique ended up sharing the New York Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Film with Umberto D. and even today, you can see homages to Clouzot's thriller in the movies of Stanley Kubrick (the haunted bathtub scene in his version of The Shining, 1980) and other filmmakers. Diabolique later inspired a thinly disguised B-movie remake by Curtis Harrington in 1967 entitled Games with Simone Signoret playing a variation on her Nicole character, a made-for-television version called Reflections of Murder (1974) featuring Tuesday Weld, Joan Hackett and Sam Waterston, and, of course, there was the forgettable 1997 remake starring Sharon Stone and Isabelle Adjani.
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producer | Clouzot, Henri-Georges | screenwriter | Geronimi, Jerome |
| musicscore | Parys, Georges Van |
duration | 92 |
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color | No |
sound | Yes |
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genre | suspense |
country | FRANCE |
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