Description
Before Psycho, Peeping Tom, and Repulsion, there was Diabolique. This thriller from Henri-Georges Clouzot, which shocked audiences in Europe and the U.S., is the story of two women—the fragile wife and the willful mistress of the sadistic headmaster of a boys’ boarding school—who hatch a daring revenge plot. With its unprecedented narrative twists and terrifying images, Diabolique is a heart-grabbing benchmark in horror filmmaking, featuring outstanding performances by Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, and Paul Meurisse.
Special Features:
- New digital restoration (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- Selected-scene commentary by French-film scholar Kelley Conway
- New video introduction by Serge Bromberg, codirector of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s “Inferno”
- New video interview with novelist and film critic Kim Newman
- Original theatrical trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Terrence Rafferty
