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
Reviews for Repulsion
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If hell is in the details, Roman Polanski has captured it here in his disturbing portrait of falling into psychosis. Full Review |
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An intense psychological thriller from the master of the genre. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Repulsion is perhaps Polanski's and Deneuve's finest hours. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Its ability to conjure monsters from its heroine's id remains unparalleled. Full Review |
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Repulsion wastes no time before plunging its audience into the frighteningly disturbed mindset of its central character. Full Review |
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4/4 |
a riveting horror thriller, one that cuts through the simple and comforting categories of good and evil Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
The director deploys suspense techniques with surrealistic touches -- both of which would seem dated today were they not so sharply weaved together. Full Review |
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4/4 |
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] Full Review |
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... a masterfully conducted portrait in madness... Full Review |
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Although it cannot quite live up to its reputation, Polanski's startling psychological horror film is a bona fide genre classic. Full Review |
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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 Full Review |
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7/10 |
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. Full Review |
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A+ |
Roman Polanski's1965 psychological thriller uncoils like a primordial poisonous snake disguised by unfathomable beauty that conceals its deadly feminine bite Full Review |
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5/5 |
its ability to conjure monsters from its heroine's id remains unparalleled Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Roman Polanski's first film in English is still his scariest and most disturbing. Full Review |
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Deneuve, without much dialog, handles a very difficult chore with insight and tact. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Roman Polanski made his international name with this genuinely frightening black-and-white nightmare. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
A methodical but fairly repellent exercise in claustrophobic horror. Full Review |
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