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Diabolique is a 1996 American psychological thriller film directed by Jeremiah Chechik, starring Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri, and Kathy Bates. The plot follows the wife and mistress of an abusive schoolmaster who find themselves stalked by an unknown assailant after murdering the schoolmaster and disposing of his body.
Les Diaboliques (French: [le djabÉ”lik], released as Diabolique in the United States and variously translated as The Devils or The Fiends) [1] is a 1955 French psychological horror thriller film co-written and directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse and Charles Vanel.
Diabolique may refer to: Diabolique (1955 film) , or Les Diaboliques , 1955 French film starring Simone Signoret Diabolique (1996 film) , 1996 United States remake of Les Diaboliques starring Sharon Stone
Les Diaboliques, 1874 short stories collection by Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, each of which relates a tale of a woman who commits acts of violence, crime, or revenge; Les Diaboliques, 1955 French film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, based on a novel by Boileau-Narcejac; Diabolique (1996 film), 1996 U.S. film, remake of 1955 film
Les Diaboliques was a worldwide critical and box office success. (Hitchcock later directed Vertigo , which was based on another Boileau-Narcejac novel.) Krug obrechyonnykh [ ru ] (The Circle of the Doomed), (U.S.S.R., 1991), directed by Yuri Belenky, and starring Igor Bochkin, Anna Kamenkova , and Vsevolod Larionov [ 7 ]
The film was a box office failure. [5] In a contemporary review, the Monthly Film Bulletin stated that "It is a pity that Duvivier's extraordinarily uneven career should have ended with this rather lame thriller." [7] Gene Moskowitz, in his review for Variety, found the film to be a "somewhat oldhat… fairly obvious attempt at a psycho ...
Diabolik premiered as the closing film of the 31st Noir in Festival on 15 December 2021, [7] and was released theatrically in Italy the following day by 01 Distribution. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] It was originally set to be released on 31 December 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy .
The film's plot borrowed from both Les Diaboliques and Roger Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum, according to critic Adrian Luther Smith, who continued: "Despite the inevitable constraints of the budget, "Libido" looks refreshingly sharp due to impressive B&W photography (by Romolo Garroni) and some great locations." [1]