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I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Guy Baran (Chazz Palminteri) is the dean of an old school inherited by his wife, the teacher Mia Baran (Isabelle Adjani) that has heart disease. Guy is an abusive husband and has a love affair with his mistress Nicole Horner (Sharon Stone), who is a school teacher in the same school. One day, Nicole and Mia plot a scheme to murder Guy and Mia spikes his whiskey and he faints. Then Nicole and Mia drown him in the bathtub and dump his body in the swimming school. Then Nicole dumps her keys in the swimming pool expecting that the school janitor finds him when he drains the pool. However there is no body in the pool and Nicole and Mia believe that someone knows the truth. When the snoopy retired Detective Shirley Vogel (Kathy Bates) investigates the disappearance, Mia freaks out and is near to destroy their alibi. What might have happened to the body of Guy Baran?"Diabolique" is a poor and unnecessary American remake of a 1955 French classic directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. The director Jeremiah S. Chechik succeeds not only in destroying the story and the atmosphere of the original film with clichés and a boring slow pace, but also in wasting a great cast with names such as Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri and Kathy Bates. Isabelle Adjani, for example, looks like a moron and not a fragile wife. The conclusion is a mess. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "Diabolique"

The original here is one of the best thrillers, energetic in a way that distracts us from the revelation of the con.This is a lesser movie, but adds at least three clever ideas. If you are interested in narrative structure, you'll be interested in remakes of films and how they change. (I think these are changes to the original.)First, in true folding style, they added a film within the film. The film within is a recruiting film, but that hardly matters.Second, they changed the dynamic of the detective by making him a her. This allows for the third change but along the way the possibilities exist for the three types of women: the virgin, the whore and the shrew. It isn't played up well enough to matter, but its clear that someone's intuition was tuned.Third, there is a final twist that I think is quite different than the original's. It bonds the three women, already hinted in a lesbian tendency between the first two. But amazingly, the film didn't work well for me, probably because of pacing problems at various levels. Not that any level was off by the interplay of levels wasn't syncopated according to what engages. Its an intuitive process, I think, but quite rigid in its rules.Isabelle Adjani was cast perfectly, and introduced very skillfully. Beginnings are hard.This in its original incarnation was the first double con movie, I think. Adding a third was inevitable, I suppose.Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.

I found it a pretty interesting film all the way through but the ending was so unsatisfying that it just about ruined the entire thing for me. Justice wasn't served here: only radical feminism which says it okay to murder your lousy husband.Here, too, is yet one more example of Christian-bashing. Isabelle Adjani plays a nun who quits because she has no faith anymore. She, Sharon Stone and Chazz Palminteri all run a Catholic boys school and bash Christianity themselves. Other teachers at the school are also shown in a bad light. There is not one positive Christian in the Christian school! Well, that's way too much bias for me. Imagine doing this to another religion or race and getting away with it?This was a re-make of a 1955 French film, which had to be better than this monstrosity. I am glad to see so many reviewers here agree, even if for different reasons.

Sharon Stone is at it again! In "Diabolique" she helps a murder. Mia Baran(Isabelle Adjani) and Nicole Horner(Stone) conspire to rid a school of a headmaster, Guy Baran(Chazz Palminteri). They drown him in a bathtub, then weigh him down with a keg. A bathtub? They could do better than that. That death-look was pretty real to me, until he removed the contacts. And Sharon look really good wearing the leopard print bra. Black, red or blue would be nice, but they wouldn't be "wild" enough for the movie. Mia had a bad heart, and her heart was giving out in a few scenes. Of course Guy and Nicole would be the real conspirators until Guy got to greedy for his own good. And he met his end to a pitchfork. Not just his right eye died, the fake drowning should have been planned better to me I think. This movie didn't reach the standards in the box office like "Basic Instinct" did. To me, it was just a toner version without all the blood. And it was still good to me. Rating 2.5 out of 5 stars.