Diabolique
I’m not super familiar with French horror. Off the top of my head the only ones that I think I’ve seen are Eyes Without a Face , High Tension , Calvaire , and Diabolique . Of course two of these films differ quite a lot from the other two (for the record, it’s Eyes Without a Face/Diabolique versus Calvaire/High Tension ). Diabolique was written by Jérôme Géronimi ( The Wages of Fear ) and Henri-Georges Clouzot ( The Spy ), directed by Clouzot, and based on She Who Was No More by Boileau-Narcejac ( Faces in the Dark ). Diabolique was released on January 29, 1955 in France and November 21, 1955 in the US and made $12,498 worldwide against an unknown budget. Reviews were largely positive, however it was received quite negatively in Britain. Diabolique follows Christina Delassalle (Véra Clouzot, The Wages of Fear ), a teacher who plots to murder her abusive husband (Paul Meurisse, Dilemma of Two Angels ) with the help of his mistress (Simone Signoret, Room at the Top ). Their pl...