Diabolique

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Ted B. @Movieaddicted Nov 17 3.5 stars: Well, as they say, I guess you just had to be there to appreciate what happened. This movie was a very good mystery, but I certainly wouldn't call it great. The acting, by 1950s French standards, was very good. It was probably very original in its time, but I guess I've seen too many spinoffs of that plot. I guess I would have prefred dubbing to subtitles. The French dialogue was very fast, and it took a lot of concentration to keep up. See more Tim M @tgmacman Sep 28 Steeped in mood and atmosphere, Diabolique methodically peels back the curtain of a treacherous mystery. See more Stephen C @bob25009 Jun 9 A success in 1 hour and 56 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dubbed and subtitled in worldwide studios!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All ages admitted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See more William B Jan 15 Great movie, with a great director. Plot is amazing. I cannot go further than that. See more Wayne K 12/31/2024 Apparently a big influence on Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho just a few years later, Diabolique seems like exactly the kind of film he’d make, and in fact it seems like that was his plan, until someone else beat him to the rights. It’s a mystery, it’s a crime story, its full of suspicious characters you’re not sure if you can trust, its got a lead who falls further and further down a rabbit hole as the story progresses. Despite being billed as a horror film it doesn’t really become one until around the final 10 minutes, but it does it really well, with little music, slow shots, dark and creepy corridors and an escalating sense of dread and paranoia. It’s based around the kind of plan where a million things could easily go wrong, and any one of them could derail it completely, but the motivations certainly make sense, and the actors play their parts so well that you never fell like any of them are giving the game away. I also love how it ends with a request not to spoil the film, an unspoken cinematic rule that I wished more people would follow. I’m not sure how much different it would have been if Hitch had been the man to helm it, but as it is, it really demonstrates just how good European cinema was in the mid 20th century, a time when American cinema was still strangled by the Hayes Code. If you love a good crime thriller, be sure to give it a watch. See more Marcelo oliveira c 11/30/2024 Definitivamente um clássico do terror pscológico, uma obra prima conceitual. Adoro a estética desse filme, ele guarda um dos finais mais impressionantes que já vi em algumas obras. See more Read all reviews

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