# Does anyone recognise this film? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 3, 2001, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-recognise-this-film/53032 "2001-02-03T18:19:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-recognise-this-film/53032/1 "2001-02-03T18:19:08Z")
Ok, here’s what I remember… It’s a movie from the 70’s or 80’s. There’s a scene where two women drown a man in a bathtub. His body is put in a trunk. The trunk in en route somewhere in a truck or something and begins to leak. That’s all I remember. Does this ring a bell with anyone? It’s been making me nuts! I remember watching it with my grandmother when I was a child and being very frightened. Someone please tell me if this movie sounds familiar. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-recognise-this-film/53032/2 "2001-02-03T18:27:37Z")
Sounds a lot like “Les Diaboliques” or the terrible remake of it. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-recognise-this-film/53032/3 "2001-02-03T19:30:50Z")
The Internet Movie Database only has one entry for “drowning-in-bathtub” in their Keyword Power Search. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0068708](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0068708) Home for the Holidays, 1972, a.k.a. Deadly Desire. > [@](#): > > An ailing man summons his three daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him. However, the minute I read the OP I said, “Sam Waterston, where they dump him in the pool”. Reflections of Murder, 1974. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0072070](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0072070) > [@](#): > > The wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy’s school plot and carry out his murder. They dump his body in the murky swimming pool at the school and await for it to surface. After several days, some unusual circumstances point to clues that he is not dead after all. Here’s the original, Les Diaboliques, 1955. I doubt whether that would be what you saw in the 1970s or 80s, unless you and Grandma were at an art film house. 🙂 [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0046911](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0046911) > [@](#): > > The wife and mistress of a sadistic boarding school headmaster plot to kill him. They drown him in the bathtub and dump the body in the school’s filthy swimming pool… but when the pool is drained, the body has disappeared - and subsequent reported sightings of the headmaster slowly drive his ‘killers’ (and the audience) up the wall with almost unbearable suspense… ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-recognise-this-film/53032/4 "2001-02-05T06:04:12Z")
Perhaps I was an an arthouse film festival with my grandmother… Okay, maybe not.