Repulsion

Repulsion
by Roman Polanski

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Actor: Catherine Deneuve, Helen Fraser, Hugh Futcher, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux
Director: Roman Polanski
Primary Contributor: Catherine Deneuve
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-08
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMS INC.

DVD Reviews of Repulsion

DVD Review: Cures insomnia, at least ...
Summary: 1 Stars

Boring with a capital B. A coma patient could've played the lead role. Deneuve's character has the personality of a fencepost. Nothing happens, and you fall asleep. FAIL. Thank goodness this was on the "free spot" on my cable service. If I had paid for this, I'd get my money back. Unisom is much cheaper.

DVD Review: cover art
Summary: 1 Stars

I am disappointed with Criterion's artwork for this. A real lack of effort, if you ask me.
I can picture numerous stills from the movie that would've served excellent duty as cover art.
I'm thrilled this is being released in the first class Criterion way but I feel they dropped the ball with the cover art.

DVD Review: ROMAN POLANSKI'S CLASSIC SHOCKER.....
Summary: 5 Stars

Finally, Roman Polanski's classic 1965 shocker is coming to DVD through Criterion . There have been inferior copies around for years, but it appears the wait for a proper edition is over. With it's stark b&w photography and the unforgettably haunting performance of Catherine Deneuve, "Repulsion" is one of those films that stays with you after you've seen it. Deneuve plays a young woman left alone in the apartment she shares with her sister while the sister goes away for a holiday with her boyfriend. She is then beset with terrifying hallucinations that culminate in a couple of murders. Deneuve virtually carries the film along with some disturbing visuals and a creepy music score. Polanski keeps the film mostly within the apartment so that the audience feels the claustrophobia and horror with Deneuve. "Repulsion" is one of the finest psychological horror films ever made and is a must see. For those who appreciate it, it will give you the creeps.

DVD Review: I hope I am seriously missing something!
Summary: 1 Stars

Having been a fan of Rosemary's Baby and Bitter Moon and generally enjoying art- and non-mainstream movies I bought Repulsion with some anticipation. The raving reviews and promises this was one of the most shocking movies of all time only heightened my expectations.

The movie is shot in black and white which is no problem and sometimes even enhances the experience but the fact the movie 90% of the time was so dark that you were squinting your eyes to make sure you were not missing something made it almost intolerable to watch. Add to that 'artistic' camera angles and you left us viewers wondering if we had in fact acquired a radio show, not a movie.

The sounds varied between mainly the ticking of an alarm clock, water running, and various bells ringing (church, telephone and door)... and only a distant fourth came the dialog. Combine that with the visual effects and you have a radio show with only sporadic sound.

The acting was uneventful by most actors (there were 13 in all including extras!) but outright impossible to rate for Catherine Deneuve as she hardly had a line in the movie and basically walked slowly around in what seemed like never ending passages without a facial expression. A static Zombie like facial expression as someone else accurately described makes it hard to even rate as an actor performance.

I realize that it must have been controversial in 1965 where studies of psychological disorder were not mainstream and moviegoers were accustomed to simple and more happy topics but my review has to be based on what is seen with todays eyes and in that perspective this must rate as one of the poorest movies of all time. Sorry Roman - luckily several of your later movies fared a lot better! This does not even deserve the 1 Star I am forced to give it.

I accept 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder' and so it is when it comes to taste in movies but having read all the 4-5 Star reviews I am still at a loss what makes this movie brilliant or even below average. What am I missing? What I missed was acting, dialogs, sound, cinematography, visuals (of almost any kind) - all nice to have even in a 1 Star movie. I appeal for someone to pass some good advise what to look out for in moves like these.

DVD Review: Very creepy
Summary: 5 Stars

Even on her good days, Carol lives on the edge of sanity; she stares endlessly at sidewalks cracks, feels things crawling on her body, and doesn't respond to people. And when her sister leaves her alone for two weeks, Carol loses her grip on reality completely.

Roman Polanski's first English language film is almost a silent movie with just a bit of dialogue. The action is mostly in Carol's mind as she sees, hears, and feels things that go bump in the night, fears many have felt at one time or another, but she loses herself in her horror. Twenty-two year old Catherine Deneuve also made her English language debut in the film and gives a stunning performance. Her fragile beauty contrasts with the ugliness and brutality of her hallucinations and the audience is swept along on her journey.

This is not a movie to watch at night if you're afraid of the dark or of being alone. A very effective thriller.

Description of Repulsion

Roman Polanski was still a newcomer to the world of cinema when he unleashed this unforgettable exercise in skin-crawling terror. Repulsion was the Polish director's first film in English, but that hardly mattered: much of the movie is as wordless (and as weird) as the silent Nosferatu. The young Catherine Deneuve plays a Belgian girl stranded in '60s London, a shy beauty with no social skills. When her sister leaves their shared flat, Deneuve goes gradually, quietly, completely mad. Her world becomes Polanski's paintbox, as the devilish director distorts reality via a series of surrealistic touches (grasping hands that protrude from elastic walls) and out-and-out murderous horror. Very few films cast the kind of eerie spell that this 1965 classic achieves, and it clearly points the way toward Polanski's Rosemary's Baby. As with most of the director's work, what is unsettling is not the overt violence, but the terrifying sense of emptiness and isolation, and the boiling unease inside one's own mind. --Robert Horton

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