Claude Chabrol's Le Boucher (1970) is an unusual kind of thriller-a slow burning one at that. Popular school teacher Helen (Stephane Audran) meets a returning army vet and the towns butcher Popaul (Jeanne Yanne) and an unlikely friendship is formed. A series of young women are murdered and left in the woods. A suspect isn't presented until well into the film and all of the murders take place off camera, however, Chabrol manages to create feelings of unease and tension throughout the film with his cinematography and the eerie soundtrack.
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