One of the most frightening and disturbing pictures ever made.
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01/01/00
Repulsion (1965)
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Reviews Counted:44
Fresh:44
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.8/10
Consensus: Roman Polanski's first English film follows a schizophrenic woman's descent into madness, and makes the audience feel as claustrophobic as the character.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: REPULSION, starring the incomparable Catherine Deneuve, was director Roman Polanski's first movie filmed in English. It chronicles the descent into schizophrenia of a sexually confused, isolated... [More]
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Wymark
Director: Roman Polanski
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Reviews for Repulsion
At second glance, or as often as a moviegoer can bear to peek through his knotted fingers, it is a Gothic horror story, a classic chiller of the Psycho school and approximately twice as persuasive.
10/19/08
An intense psychological thriller from the master of the genre.
09/21/07
Deneuve gives a scary and believable performance as a young woman who has never been completely integrated and who loses all sanity while we watch.
01/01/00
Prepare yourself to be demolished when you go to see it -- and go you must, because it's one of those films everybody will soon be buzzing about.
05/20/03
No review available.
04/16/04
A story of sexual repression of such magnitude necessarily treads on Freudian ground but Polanski resists any urge to plumb the psychological depths of his tortured protagonist.
07/25/09
its ability to conjure monsters from its heroine's id remains unparalleled
05/23/09
Roman Polanski's1965 psychological thriller uncoils like a primordial poisonous snake disguised by unfathomable beauty that conceals its deadly feminine bite
07/13/09
No review available.
12/18/02
This is an austere, scary, and timeless Grand Guignol work -- one with little dialogue.
01/01/00
Its two-way prism of audio-visual embellishments intuits a woman's fractured psyche and catches super-cool flashes of the audience's perverse cine-desires.
04/14/06
Repulsion is a frightening, fiercely entertaining experience that holds up to time.
01/01/00
Top CriticHaunting and ominous from first frame to last, Polanski's first English film is a masterpiece, a subtle horror tale about the descent into madness of an isolated, sexually repressed woman, stunningly played by Catherine Deneuve who was only 22 at the time
07/25/09
Repulsion wastes no time before plunging its audience into the frighteningly disturbed mindset of its central character.
08/05/09
Polanski's best by a wide margin. The walls! The walls!
12/22/03
Still perhaps Polanski's most perfectly realised film, a stunning portrait of the disintegration, mental and emotional, of a shy young Belgian girl (Deneuve) living in London.
02/09/06
A contemporary audience might find the horror in Repulsion occurring too little, too late, but the fun of the movie is in the details, the careful etching of the mind of a woman cracking under the strain of her alienation.
01/01/00
No review available.
01/13/05
a riveting horror thriller, one that cuts through the simple and comforting categories of good and evil
08/04/09
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