Its ability to conjure monsters from its heroine's id remains unparalleled.
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08/05/09
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
Repulsion wastes no time before plunging its audience into the frighteningly disturbed mindset of its central character.
08/05/09
a riveting horror thriller, one that cuts through the simple and comforting categories of good and evil
08/04/09
The director deploys suspense techniques with surrealistic touches -- both of which would seem dated today were they not so sharply weaved together.
07/29/09
Polanski dares the viewer to plunge into that eye and through the psychic rabbit hole that is its owner's increasingly unhinged personality. [Blu-ray]
07/28/09
... a masterfully conducted portrait in madness...
07/27/09
Although it cannot quite live up to its reputation, Polanski's startling psychological horror film is a bona fide genre classic.
07/27/09
Haunting 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
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
Roman Polanski's1965 psychological thriller uncoils like a primordial poisonous snake disguised by unfathomable beauty that conceals its deadly feminine bite
07/13/09
its ability to conjure monsters from its heroine's id remains unparalleled
05/23/09
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
Roman Polanski's first film in English is still his scariest and most disturbing.
09/21/07
Top CriticIf hell is in the details, Roman Polanski has captured it here in his disturbing portrait of falling into psychosis.
09/21/07
An intense psychological thriller from the master of the genre.
09/21/07
Deneuve, without much dialog, handles a very difficult chore with insight and tact.
09/21/07
Roman Polanski made his international name with this genuinely frightening black-and-white nightmare.
04/09/07
A methodical but fairly repellent exercise in claustrophobic horror.
10/18/06
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
The ordeal we and Polanski craved for Deneuve turned out to be just a sport, and we were the ball -- just as we'd hoped.
04/11/06
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