Repulsion

  • 1965


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Average Rating 4.1/5
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4.5
Roman Polanskis first English language film is still a creepy little horror masterpiece. EW
1.5
Deneuve, without much dialog, handles a very difficult chore with insight and tact. Variety
4.5
Still perhaps Polanskis most perfectly realised film, a stunning portrait of the disintegration, mental and emotional, of a shy young Belgian girl (De .. Time Out
5.0
But I am a little step farther, because surrealism doesnt show, doesnt explain.
4.5
Her stunning beauty and cool insularity make her a compelling protagonist even as shes overtaken by a subjective surreality.
5.0
Roman Polanski made his international name with this genuinely frightening black and white nightmare. E Film Critic
5.0
Repulsion is a frightening, fiercely entertaining experience that holds up to time. San Francisco Chronicle
4.5
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. San Francisco Chronicle
5.0
If hell is in the details, Roman Polanski has captured it here in his disturbing portrait of falling into psychosis.
4.5
This is an austere, scary, and timeless Grand Guignol work one with little dialogue. Sover
5.0
This is Roman Polanskis most microscopically focused tale of paranoia, and arguably his greatest achievement. Combust Ible Celluloid
4.5
Roman Polanskis first film in English is still his scariest and most disturbing. Chicago Reader
5.0
Roman Polanski takes us on a deeply disturbing, hallucinatory trip into Catherine Deneuves mental breakdown in this British psychological thriller, Radio Times
4.5
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 etc .. Internet Reviews
4.5
A potent cocktail of sexual repression, madness and violence, this chiller is one of Roman Polanskis best. Smh
4.5
If its the sense of isolation that gives Repulsion its greatest resonance, its Polanskis astonishing control of the medium of film that makes it all w .. Mountain X
4.5
Haunting and ominous from first frame to last, Polanskis first English film is a masterpiece, a subtle horror tale about the descent into madness of a .. Emanuellevy
5.0
There cant be many other films which so plausibly show an entire, warped world created from a single point of view. Guardian
5.0
a riveting horror thriller, one that cuts through the simple and comforting categories of good and evil Q Network
4.5
The beauty of this film is that as it carries us along we see how Caroles every reaction makes sense, even whilst occasional glimpses through the eyes .. Eye For Film
4.5
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 Psych .. Time
5.0
Filled with indelible images and punishing sound design, Repulsion casts a shadow over everything from Eraserhead to Black Swan, but theres nothing qu .. Total Film
4.8
Roman Polanskis1965 psychological thriller uncoils like a primordial poisonous snake disguised by unfathomable beauty that conceals its deadly feminin .. Coles Mithey
5.0
Todays horror audience probably wouldnt sit still for Repulsion, but a patient viewing yields an incrementally distressing experience that burrows und .. Groucho Reviews
4.5
Prepare yourself to be demolished when you go to see it and go you must, because its one of those films everybody will soon be buzzing about. Ny Times
4.5
As psychological horror films go, there are more than a few that get the psychology better than this, but almost none that come within spitting distan .. Antagony & Ecstasy
4.5
The young Catherine Deneuve (she was 22 at the time of filming) gives a performance so unsettling and so precise, I can barely believe she grew into s .. Streaming Quickflix
3.5
A story of sexual repression of such magnitude necessarily treads on Freudian ground but Polanski resists any urge to plumb the psychological depths o .. Movie Metropolis
0.5
A peerless Freudian nightmare, frequently revisited but seldom matched in its desire and terror, its visual aural flow, and its queasy voyeuristic ple .. Cine Passion
4.0
A film that expertly shows without ever telling, even while the symbolism is a mite heavy handed. Little White Lies
1.5
The rest of the film has that gurgling, soapy sound of muffed intentions going down the plug hole like bath water. OutWeek
4.5
He doesnt try to reconstruct her case history as would Hitchcock, or even to explain. Maclean's Magazine
4.5
Although it cannot quite live up to its reputation, Polanskis startling psychological horror film is a bona fide genre classic.
5.0
You may feel the urge to laugh out of sheer need to break the tension, and Polanski knows it. Projection Booth Blog Spot ..
1.5
Also, while Bergmans symbolism of a society whose people cant communicate with each other didnt work very well, at least he tried for a larger meaning .. Esquire Magazine
1.5
How much one remains held by all this probably depends on how much one is interested by the case book aspect of Carols story, but at least there are a .. Screen Online Org Uk
4.5
Repulsion wastes no time before plunging its audience into the frighteningly disturbed mindset of its central character. DVD Review
1.5
Were we supposed to have found it entertaining Theres more horror latent in this notion of the movie audience than in the film itself. Vogue



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