Filming locations
Where was Diabolique (1955) filmed?
3 locations on the HorrorMeet Atlas.
- Institut medico-legal, Paris
The morgue sequence, where the wife is taken to identify a body, was shot in the real Paris forensic institute on the Seine by the Pont d'Austerlitz. It is still the city morgue and is not open to the public.
- Montfort-l'Amaury, Yvelines
Nicole's house, written as being in Niort, was actually filmed in this hill town west of Paris, opposite a building Clouzot had already used in Le Corbeau. Montfort-l'Amaury is a small tourist town with a ruined castle above it.
- L'Etang-la-Ville, Yvelines
Clouzot spent five weeks shooting the boarding school, and its notorious swimming pool, at a run down chateau in this village between Saint-Cloud and Saint-Germain. The village is on the Paris suburban rail network.
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