The Wages of Fear

Inspector Wens is on the trail of a serial killer who has committed four murders during the course of a few months. The only clue is a calling card signed ?Monsieur Durand? found at each of the murder scenes. Wens receives an unexpected tip that Mr. Durand is one of the eccentric tenants living in a boarding house at No. 21. Disguised as a clergyman, the inspector takes a room at the house. The suspects are arrested, but while each is in jail, another murder occurs.

A mysterious writer of poison-pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau (The Raven), plagues a French provincial town, unwittingly exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community?s calm surface. Made during the Nazi Occupation of France, Le Corbeau was attacked by the right-wing Vichy regime, the left-wing Resistance press, the Catholic Church, and was banned after the Liberation. But some ?including Jean Cocteau and Jean-Paul Sartre?

This Henri-Georges Clouzot thriller, which shocked audiences in Europe and the United States, is the story of two women, the fragile wife and the willful mistress of the sadistic headmaster of a boys' boarding school, who hatch a daring revenge plot. With its unprecedented narrative twists and terrifying images, Diabolique is a heart-grabbing benchmark in horror filmmaking.