if chabrol have any claim to be the french hitchcock then it be surely base on this and his best film . star his wife stephane audran it be set in a french village and which help give a profound sense of isolation to the terrible event which take place there . a with all great thriller the fear come through the gradual realisation of what be really happen and rather than the continuous portrayal of graphically violent act . the sense of evil in the film be palpable . unmissable .