A true classic in the suspenseful thriller/horror genre, with a twist “to die for”.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 4, 2024

Diabolique is a work of art... the personification of anxiety.

| Feb 26, 2024

The story is simple, but executed perfectly...

| Jun 27, 2023

What is certain is that Clouzot has achieved 100 percent of his goal and that the viewer cannot help but experience all the emotions the director has prepared for him, as if along a scenic highway.

| Mar 29, 2023

If somebody insists, against all warnings, on telling you how Diabolique comes out, kill him in cold blood. There isn't a jury in the land that would convict you.

| Jan 31, 2023

Hitchcock, even in his earlier and rougher days, never turned out a movie of such diabolical proportions.

| Jan 31, 2023

It's a super suspense yarn knitted together with a deft Gallic touch. Madame DuFarge couldn't do better, and a splendid, very splendid cast, sees that no dramatic stitches are dropped.

| Jan 31, 2023

Diabolique is a devilishly good movie, real cool for hot weather.

| Jan 31, 2023

This is a superbly chilling slice of life, one indeed to challenge the best of Alfred Hitchcock. It is a tale of murder which turns the innately innocent setting of a boarding school into a hair-raising labyrinth of passion.

| Jan 31, 2023

Don't sell Diabolique short, because it has the most shocking sequences you've ever seen on the screen.

| Jan 31, 2023

The arch fiends of hell couldn't have plotted better than Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac in the devising of Diabolique. The horrors, psychological as well physical, make this a shocker worthy of the devil himself.

| Jan 31, 2023

The director has shown already, in The Wages of Fear, how splendidly he can manipulate tricks of suspense and shock, and if in the present case these tricks are used in the telling of a tale of smaller size, they are... no less effective.

| Jan 31, 2023

Here's a gruesome tale of murder so delicately done that some moviegoers will chuckle at it while others shiver -- and both reactions may be taken as compliments to a movie as sly and neat as its name.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 31, 2023

Clouzot is a man of intelligence and skill who shows himself to be excited by only two sensations -- cruelty and disgust. His appeal is as degenerate as the horror comics, and more offensive because it is more cultivated.

| Jan 31, 2023

Although lacking the extreme sadism of The Wages of Fear, the new melodrama once more displays M. Clouzot's penchant for a bizarre situation, and his capacity to tighten the narrative screws as he creates a nightmare world.

| Jan 31, 2023

It's a fantastically fine, grisly suspense shocker; a deep-freeze exercise in conscienceless killing; a tricky, murderous little honey dealing in sheer horror.

| Jan 31, 2023

Take it from me, Diabolique is one of the most unusual films ever to hit the screen, and producer-director Henri-Georges Clouzot the first to seriously challenge Alfred Hitchcock's title as "master of suspense."

| Jan 31, 2023

This is a throwback -- and a grand one -- to the creaky, old-fashioned whoopdoodle that distinguished Caligari and, for that matter, The Cat and the Canary.

| Jan 31, 2023

If you like a good mystery and can stand it fairly morbid and uncompromising as to detail, this is one of the best offerings in a long time.

| Jan 31, 2023

I think a few words about Director Henri-Georges Clouzot are in order. In the process of playing havoc with our digestive tracks, he succeeds remarkably in deep characterization and the evocation of milieu.

| Jan 31, 2023