The Cry of the Owl has a completely original concept.
The Cry of the Owl ( Original : Le cri du hibou ) is a 1987 French-Italian thriller film , adapted from the 1962 novel The Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith . The Cry of the Owl is a 2009 thriller film based on Patricia Highsmith 's book of the same name . This is the third filming of the book after the 1987 French film adaptation by Claude Chabrol and a German TV adaptation titled Der Schrei der Eule , also dating from 1987 .