Mixing Spirits & Mysteries: Les Diaboliques

Join us for the last installment of our winter series with film aficionado and author Marc Strauss, Ph.D.! This wonderful virtual series pairs classic mystery films with a make-at-home cocktail. Sign up to receive the special recipe and Zoom link to join the libations, viewing and post-film discussion.

These events are FREE and all are welcome (we’ll provide non-alcoholic recipes too)! Donations of any amount are accepted!

Tonight’s presentation: Les Diaboliques
(France, 1955, 1 hr. 54 min)

Les Diaboliques, released as Diabolique in the United States, is a 1955 French psychological horror thriller film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse and Charles Vanel. The story blends elements of thriller and horror, with the plot focusing on a woman and her husband’s mistress who conspire to murder the man; after the crime is committed, however, his body disappears, and a number of strange occurrences ensue. Clouzot, after finishing The Wages of Fear, optioned the screenplay rights, preventing Alfred Hitchcock from making the film. This movie helped inspire Hitchcock’s Psycho. Robert Bloch, the author of the novel Psycho, stated in an interview that his all-time favorite horror film was Les Diaboliques.