Diabolique is a 1996 American psychological thriller film directed by Jeremiah Chechik, starring Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri, and Kathy Bates.

While en route to the school, Nicole crashes Guy's car in a pileup on the interstate, but the wicker box goes unnoticed by authorities.

The women arrive at the school in the middle of the night, and dump Guy's corpse in the unkempt swimming pool on the property, staging his death as an accidental drowning.

After reading about the discovery of a John Doe in a nearby river, Mia goes to view the body at the sheriff's station, but finds it is not Guy.

Their fears of a blackmailer are confirmed when Mia discovers the shower curtain used to conceal Guy's body hanging in her bathroom window.

They exit the pool and are confronted by Shirley, who punches Mia in the face; willing to cover for the women, she explains it will help prove self-defense in Guy's murder.

[3] Janet Maslin enjoyed "the spectacle of Ms. Stone marching triumphantly toward the Dragon Lady stage of her career" but lamented the heavy-handed script and direction.

[4] Kenneth Turan compared the choice of Jeremiah Chechik to "assigning Captain Kangaroo to direct 'The Silence of the Lambs'”, concluding, "the entire picture has a clunky, hand-me-down feeling.

He lamented the rewriting of the inspector from the original film, which inspired the creation of Columbo, calling her endorsement of the murder a "travesty".