Diabolique (1955) is a French psychological horror film, made several years before Psycho (1960), and, like Psycho (1960), made on a small budget in black-and-white, and becoming hugely popular. Both Robert Bloch, whose novel on which Psycho (1960) is based, and Alfred Hitchcock, proclaimed their great admiration for it. Both films provide an unexpected shocker at the end by inverting their audience's expectations. In Psycho (1960), viewers believe that Norman's mother is alive, but in fact is really dead, so is not the killer. In Diabolique (1955), a character is shown murdered, and so is believed dead, but later revealed as a villain, and alive all along.
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