Un chien Andalou , Jean Cocteau 's The Blood of a Poet , Henri-Georges Clouzot 's Diabolique and Alfred Hitchcock 's Psycho . Cul-de-sac (1966) Cul-de-sac (1966) is a bleak nihilist tragicomedy filmed on location in Northumberland . The general tone and the basic premise of the film owes a great