A troubled young artist has a secret pastime: playing peeping tom with his sexy neighbor. When he admits to her that he has been spying on her, he finds to his horror she repays the obsession, ferociously. She leaves her fiancé, who turns out to be more insanely jealous than either of them. When the jilted fiancé disappears, the young artist is suspected of murder...which is only the beginning of his problems.

Winner of one French Academy Award and nominated for a second, hailed by audiences and critics alike, Cry of the Owl is a landmark psychological thriller from director Claude Chabrol, France's Master of Suspense.

A pioneer of the French New Wave and a prolific director of brilliant modern films noir, Chabrol here pays tribute to his predecessors Alfred Hitchcock and Fritz Lang with an adaptation of a novel by mystery writer Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Strangers on a Train).

A peeping tom comes face to face with the object of his obsession only to find her even more dangerously dysfunctional than himself. Four unstable individuals converge as a doomed love triangle devolves into violence.

This film was among Chabrol's most popular and successful films, but after an acclaimed theatrical run in 1987 it virtually disappeared, a casualty of a copyright dispute that scotched plans for its VHS release. Unavailable for 15 years, All Day Entertainment restores Chabrol's giddy thriller with a gorgeous letterboxed transfer from the 35mm masters.