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Plot Summary
Considered one of the most frightening films ever made, Roman Polanski's "Repulsion" stars Catherine Deneuve as a Belgian manicurist working in Paris and living in an apartment with her sister. Simultaneously repulsed and attracted to the idea of sex, Deneuve slowly becomes more and more unhinged.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
100%- Reviews Counted: 58
- Fresh: 58
- Rotten: 0
- Average Rating: 8.9/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: 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.
Fresh: Roman Polanski's first English-language film is still a creepy little horror masterpiece.
Fresh: 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.
Fresh: Deneuve, without much dialog, handles a very difficult chore with insight and tact.
Customer Reviews
TOTAL POLANSKI
Nobody knows how to tell a tale about someone trapped alone in a tight space and losing their frickin' gourd like Roman Polanski! I wrote a review earlier after I'd bought the movie, but now I just finished watching it and enjoyed it as much as I hoped. Like most of Polanski's work, this is very slow moving and has a minimalist style. That plus the fact that it's in black and white and more than five years old, means it's probably not the right kind of horror film for the typical teenie-bopper out there with the attentions span of a carrot. I gave it four stars rather than five simply because it didn't BLOW ME AWAY. That said, I did think it's a very good movie, twisted and disturbing, and most of Polanski's films have a tenency to grow on you. At first they may seem too slow or hard to understand, but with each viewing, you like them more and more. Each time I watch "The Tenant" I like it even more, and I'm sure once I've watched "Repulsion" a couple more times, I'll be changing my score from four stars to five... Nice job, Roman! And thanks iTunes for having a movie that's outside the mainstream and somewhat obscure!
Great Movie
One of Polanski's best. Nice to see it on iTunes.
Good job iTunes
Great rarely seen movie nice job iTunes!
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- Genre: Horror
- Released: 1965
- © 1965, renewed 1993 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.