10 Greatest Horror Movies Never Made
8. Inferno
Henri-Georges Clouzot was one of France's premiere psychological thriller directors whose 1955 film, Les Diaboliques, is one of the best examples in the genre. By 1964, his career was somewhat waning so he began working on Inferno as a sort of career reinvention.
The film was set to depict an intensely jealous relationship between a husband and wife with allusions to Dante's Inferno, but the movie remains Clouzot's only unfinished work. Even with a generous budget from Columbia Pictures and hours of footage shot in both color and black & white, the movie was never completed.
Filming in the extreme heat of the Cantal region of France slowed production and made a lot of people working on the set sick, which delayed filming. Clouzot and the film's lead actor, Serge Reggiani didn't get along, and a near-fatal heart attack hospitalized Clouzot for weeks.
By the time the director left the hospital, the film was scrapped but it can be seen... sort of. In 2009, several scenes shot from 15 hours of footage were cut into a documentary about the project titled, L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot, which was presented out-of-competition at the Cannes Film Festival that year.