Le Boucher (The Butcher) (1970)
Directed by Claude Chabrol

WILLIAM FRIEDKIN SAYS: ''This French film takes the longest time to get to one of the most frightening sequences in the history of motion pictures. Like all of Claude Chabrol's films, it has a lot to say about the nature of the people who live in small towns. The main character is a woman who strikes up a friendship with the local butcher. He's charitable, gentle, and completely non-threatening...until you find out the butcher is, in fact, really a butcher. Like so many of these films, the heroine winds up alone with [the killer] in the final sequence.''