Genre: Thriller, Drama, Horror, Murder, Psychodrama, Psychos, Suspense, Mental Illness, Cult Classic, Surreal
Tagline: The nightmare world of a virgin's dreams becomes the screen's shocking reality!
Plot: Carol, a young girl living in Sixties' London, is repelled, yet fascinated, by men. Her radiant beauty attracts the opposite sex, but she shrinks from their advances. Her days are spent in an intensely feminine atmosphere: working in a beauty salon, and clinging to her sister Helen for love. But, as she incarcerates herself in her sinister, shadowy flat, men begin to invade her dreams night and day, mixing her terror with delight as bizarre hallucinations take hold of her mind. The walls start to crack, literally, before the eyes. Finally, racked and depraved through her delirium, she is left with only one instinct towards the men who invade her life - that of a killer... 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 young woman named Carol who works at a beauty parlor and shares an apartment with her sister Helen (Yvonne Furneaux). One day Helen and her boyfriend, Michael (Ian Hendry), go off on vacation together and Carol is left alone in the empty apartment, where the only sounds are the constant ticking of a clock, faucets dripping, and the invasive ringing of a telephone. Extremely paranoid, Carol refuses to let anyone in and
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 ...incredible black-and-white photography and atmosphere make Polanski's first English-language films a must-see for fans of the genre.-- (eSplatter.com)
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 | Gérard Brach
The Name of the Rose, Frantic, Jean de Florette |
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Chico Hamilton
Mr. Ricco, Sweet Smell of Success, Jazz on a Summer's Day |
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