![]() The school is closed in the wake of the scandal. However, Alfred hears their celebration and figures out everything, telling them they will get 15 to 20 years, depending on the judge. Michel and Nicole have set up Christina from the beginning, with Michel acting as a vengeful ghost to scare Christina to death. Michel rises from the tub, and Christina has a heart attack and dies. There she finds Michel's corpse submerged in the bathtub, which is full of water. When she realizes that someone is following her, she runs back to her room. That night, Christina hears noises and wanders around the school. He does not believe her, but he investigates the pool. Unnerved, Nicole leaves the school she asks Christina to come too, but she is too ill and afraid.Ĭhristina, overcome by fear, tells Alfred everything. When the school photograph is taken, the result seems to show Michel's spectral figure in the window behind the students. ![]() After hearing this, Christina's heart condition grows worse, and her doctors fear she may die soon unless she maintains strict bed rest. He becomes involved in the case, much to Nicole's chagrin.Ĭhristina, Nicole and other teachers find a student who claims that Michel has ordered him to rake leaves as punishment for breaking a window. There, she meets Alfred Fichet, a retired senior policeman now working as a private detective. However, when Christina goes to the morgue, she finds it is not actually Michel's body. Nicole sees in the paper that the police have found the corpse. There the cleaning man tells her that Michel had kept the room for awhile but was rarely if ever seen and stored nothing there. When the proprietor of the dry cleaners also returns a key to a room in nearby hotel that was with the clothes, Christina goes to the room. Then, the suit that Michel had been wearing when they drowned him is returned from the dry cleaners. Michel's corpse is nowhere to be found when the pool is drained. Almost everything goes according to their plans until the body fails to surface. When his corpse floats to the top, they think it will appear to have been an accident. The two women then drown him in a bathtub and, driving back to the school, dump his body in the neglected swimming pool. Using a threatened divorce to lure Michel to Nicole's apartment building in Niort, a town several hundred kilometers away, Christina sedates him. Though hesitant at first, Christina ultimately consents to help Nicole. Unable to stand his mistreatment any longer, Nicole devises a plan to get rid of Michel forever. He is cruel to the students, beats Nicole, and mocks Christina about her heart condition. ![]() Rather than antagonism, the two women have a somewhat close relationship, primarily based on their apparent mutual hatred of Michel. Michel also has a relationship with Nicole Horner, another teacher at the school. The school is owned, though, by Delassalle's teacher wife, the frail Christina, an emigrée from Venezuela. Plot Ī second-rate boarding school in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, in the Paris metropolitan area, is run by the tyrannical and cruel Michel Delassalle. Robert Bloch, the author of the novel Psycho, stated in an interview that his all-time favorite horror film was Les Diaboliques. This movie helped inspire Hitchcock's Psycho. The film also received the 1954 Louis Delluc Prize.Ĭlouzot, after finishing The Wages of Fear, optioned the screenplay rights, preventing Alfred Hitchcock from making the film. The film was the 10th-highest grossing film of the year in France, with a total of 3,674,380 admissions. The story blends elements of thriller and horror, with the plot focusing on a woman and her husband's mistress who conspire to murder the man. It is based on the novel She Who Was No More ( Celle qui n'était plus) by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. ![]() ![]() Les Diaboliques ( French:, released as Diabolique in the United States and variously translated as The Devils or The Fiends) is a 1955 French psychological horror thriller film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse and Charles Vanel. ![]()
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