The Butcher

About The Butcher

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.

The Butcher (1970) is a crime thriller film directed by Claude Chabrol. Its themes are vietnam veteran, french noir, butcher, and province.

Stéphane Audran appears as Hélène Davile, aka 'Mlle Hélène', Jean Yanne as Paul Thomas, aka 'Popaul', Roger Rudel as Commissioner Grumbach, and Antonio Passalia as Angelo. It runs 93 minutes and was released in February 1970.

The screenplay is by Claude Chabrol.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2, So I Married an Axe Murderer, and Targets make useful companions to The Butcher, all filed under murder. TMDB voters put it at 7.1 out of 10 across 294 votes and it carries a NR rating.