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10-15-2008, 12:13 AM
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Les Diaboliques (1955)
The reason I opened this thread because according to Festered's Thread directory I see that there was no single thread for this movie, moreover somehow the movie failed to made a place in any of HDC's top 100 lists...so I think at least it deserve a thread in this section. If I'm wrong then please say so as I have done the search pretty briefly:o
My review: At last I have got the chance to see it lately and after I finished the film my expression was...Wow! Wow! and simply Wow! It completely amazed me! I have known that background music always play a vital part for any movies and specially for thriller & horror. But after watching this great classic I have tremendously fascinated by the art of movie making another time (as far I remember last time 12 Angry Men mesmerized me such a way). Without using any chilling soundtrack the way Clouzot hold it's suspense and unfold the gripping mystery..it was truly timeless! The silence itself played the most haunting part in the film. I feel somewhat ashamed that I saw it's fucked up remake before the original sometime ago. Cause at that point of time the LD's dvd was totally unavailable here. But luckily last week I found a single copy of it at a store. Anyway, I have read in a review at imdb.com that Sir Alfred Hitchcock was also very much interested about this story: "After reading Pierre Boileau's novel, Alfred Hitchcock phone the editor in the morning to buy the story for making a film. But another great master, Henri-Georges Clouzot, had phone 30 minutes earlier."..Was it really happened? :)
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10-15-2008, 08:53 AM
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Nice review, by the way. Haven't seen this in quite a long time, and you've inspired me to rewatch it. Hitch was a big fan of Boileau and D'Entre le Mort, which ended up being Vertigo, was one of his greatest films.
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10-15-2008, 08:01 PM
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This is one of the few films that I own on dvd. Its got to be one of my favorites. I know its labeled a horror film or horror classic everywhere I go and always will be but do you really think its horror? I mean it does have its share of frightening scenes and is a strong influence on other horror films but I dont think I would call it horror. Maybe mystery with influences of thriller and horror in it.
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10-16-2008, 11:02 AM
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An excellent film that pretty much changed the way alot of films have been written since. Primarily noticable is the work of Jimmy Sangster who wrote a number of films for Hammer that were clearly based off of Les Diaboliques. None of which have quite captured the original suspense caused by it but some definetly worth a watch most notably The Nanny and Paranoic.
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