Guy Baran News Today

"Diabolique isnt a remake of the classic 1955 French thriller so much as a repudiation of it. It takes the famous original ending--which audiences were urged not to reveal--and discards its elegance and wit in favor of a ludicrous struggle in which one character gets a rake embedded in the skull, and a policewoman gives her blessing to a homicide. Film lovers should study the two "Diaboliques side by side, in order to see how the Hollywood assembly line trashed its treasure from the past. "Dont...