Thomas Narcejac – Scripts on Screen

Diabolique Script

Year:1996

Director:Jeremiah S. Chechik

Written by:Pierre Boileau (Novel), Thomas Narcejac (Novel), Henri-Georges Clouzot (Screenplay), Don Roos (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed attempt to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. The strain starts to tell on the two women as a retired police investigator who is looking into the disappearance on a whim begins to think that they know more than they are telling, and their mental state is not helped when their victim is seen, apparently alive and well by one of the pupils.

Diabolique Script Resources:

Diabolique Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
Diabolique Transcript at scripts.com

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Vertigo

Year:1958

Director:Alfred Hitchcock

Written by:Pierre Boileau (Author), Thomas Narcejac (Author), Alec Coppel (Screenplay), Samuel A. Taylor (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

Vertigo Script Resources:

Vertigo Script PDF at Script Slug
Vertigo Script at Hitchcock Wiki
Vertigo Script - 1957 draft at The Daily Script
Vertigo Script at The Daily Script
Vertigo Script at Screenplays For You
Vertigo Script at IMSDb
Vertigo Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
Vertigo Script PDF - 12/3/57 REVISED at Script City ($)

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.

Body Parts

Year:1991

Director:Eric Red

Written by:Pierre Boileau (Novel), Eric Red (Screenplay), Thomas Narcejac (Novel), Norman Snider (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A criminal psychologist loses his arm in a car crash, and becomes one of three patients to have their missing limbs replaced by those belonging to an executed serial killer. One of them dies violently, and disturbing occurrences start happening to the surviving two.

Body Parts Script Resources:

Body Parts Script PDF at alexcox.com