Sharon Stone,
Isabelle Adjani,
Chazz Palminteri,
Kathy Bates,
Spalding Gray
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Henri-Georges Clouzot's classic French thriller gets a Hollywood makeover in this glossy remake. Guy Baran (Chazz Palminteri) is the dull, loutish headmaster of a private school that has seen better d... read more
Directed by: Jeremiah S. Chechik, Jeremiah Chechik
Release Date: March 22, 1996
DVD Release Date: January 26, 1999
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September 18, 2011I saw this one in the middle of the night. I'm not a fan of sharon stone...but it was pretty good...still not a fan of sharon stone dough
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March 27, 2011Sharon Stone's delightfully slinky outfits are the only genuine attraction in this updated so-called thriller, which pairs her with Isabelle Adjani as the mistress and wife who decide to murder abusive school headmaster Chazz Palminiteri. What was fresh and genuinely frightening ... read more
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November 20, 2007One of those movies that I liked very much when I was a kid. Sharon Stone was awesome in this movie!
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October 28, 2007Good movie with Kathy Bates and Sharon Stone. A wife and mistress plot to kill their lover, but the body disappears. Suspense movie full of twists and turns.
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October 13, 2008Man this is an amazing movie. I loved Kathy Bates in this movie, more than when she was in Misery. If you havent seen it, please do. It's soo worth it.
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June 1, 2008This was a good movie, just didn't like the gloomy look of it, but that is easy to get over because the story was hitting
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January 21, 2008Great cast and the story moves along lightning-fast, but it's far-fetched uninteresting. WHo cares if the guy is a jerk? Does that mean he deserves to drown to death at the hands of his wife and mistress? And why do his wife and mistress ahng out anyway? whatever...
Critic Reviews
January 1, 2000
Mike Clark, USA Today
July 30, 2007
Rob Gonsalves, eFilmCritic.com
The new Diabolique mostly dispenses with subtlety, contenting itself with regularly scheduled cathartic jolts that pass for suspense in our degraded culture. Full Review
April 3, 2005
Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com
If it makes at least one person search out and discover the original version, then it's all worth it.
December 5, 2004
Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com
Chechik fails to create any real suspense or thrills and does not seamlessly juggle the serious thriller aspects with the black comedy Full Review
January 11, 2003
Rob Vaux, Flipside Movie Emporium
Silly update of the French classic; the ending is an unforgivable cop-out.
April 8, 2001
John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis
Why do Hollywood filmmakers keep messing around with and screwing up past successes? Full Review
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