Polanski's brilliantly crafted and profoundly morbid thriller about a London manicurist who harbors a consuming hatred of sex, and who, when her stable sister leaves town on a romantic holiday, goes spectacularly insane locked inside her flat -- the walls turn to putty, the carcasses putrify, and the outside world won't keep away. Catherine Deneuve is for the first time used counter to her serene, blank appearance.

the only thing stopping me from loving this film is its slow pace.

Descent into Madness - Deneuve is great

"Its two-way prism of audio-visual embellishments intuits a woman's fractured psyche and catches super-cool flashes of the audience's perverse cine-desires." - Ed Gonzalez

#1207 - 17 ekim 2010 & polanski basarisiz ve etkisiz bir yonetmen, mukemmel bir senarist. imgesel anlatimi, atmosfer kurmadaki ogelerin kullanimi basarili - ama kamerasi zayif. sinemasi icten fakat hep bi eksiklik hissi hakim. / film o kadar duraganki, sanki karakterler agir cekim hareket ediyor! / bu film, polanski'nin hastalikli bir zihne sahip oldugunun acik kanitidir.

It was not my cup of tea at all. Generally, journeys into madness are interesting; but this one was rather dull and unconvincing. Aside from a great musical score and 1-2 creepy scenes, it was really boring. I like Polanski, but this one is very overrated.

Quite interesting, though slightly heavy handed.

Great visual style, but not much interesting happens until the last half hour. People comment that this film is about a young woman going mad, but it seemed to me that the chick was totally wacko from the beginning. Definitely creepy and scary in parts despite being kinda dated.

"Repulsion" tells the story of Carole Ledoux, a shy, beautiful young woman who is repulsed by male contact. Her mental state slowly drops to ground zero once her sister leaves her alone for a vacation in Italy with her boyfriend. This is where the movie truly starts. I won't go any further than this. "Repulsion" is a great psychological thriller that has you thinking even after the credits role. I was still putting the pieces of the story together the day after I saw it! Polanski is a genius.

Character study meets psychological thriller, kept constantly unnerving by the terrific photography which is sometimes intrusive but never gets between the audience and Deneuve's remarkable turn. Quite brilliant.

This is an elaborate 105 minute joke right? I was itching for my friends at MST3k to save me by riffing this. The only thing funnier than this movie are the trailers saying it was twice as good as Psycho.

One of my favorite horror movies. I gave it 100 because I can't think of a single thing wrong with it.

91.500

I first saw this film when I was in a really bad mood and it was the perfect thing to cheer me up. This film just wants to show you how much of a demented fuck it is. It's seriously fun, and Catherine Deneuve is psychotically hot in this one.

The perfect film until I watched it.

Polanski's nouvelle vague horror. Not much of a story, but the atmosphere is stunningly creepy, and Deneuve really delivers. Scenes where she roams the streets of London with crazed shine in her eyes are simply unforgettable. Unlike Rosemary's Baby, this film still feels fresh.

A creepy, disturbing, deliberately paced psychological trip. Polanski creates an amazing sense of unease and confusion, and leaves just enough ambiguity for us to chew on. The black and white cinematography is gorgeous, and the main actress plays her subdued role with a perfect amount of subtle strangeness. A very well made and intriguing thriller that deserves to be pondered and studied.

An utter masterpiece from Roman Polanski, something unsettling and genuinely frightening. Perception and reality become warped, imparted through expressive cinematography and sound design, packed with details that give the film incredible texture. It's a testament to her ability that the typically provocative bombshell Catherine Deneuve is able to give a virginal, repressed role such impact. The heart of her performance is in her eyes, distant and impenetrable.

Creepy character study.

Woah

I love the atmosphere of this film. I love Deneuve's hair, which seems to have been created for black & white film. The slow crumbling into deranged paranoia due to shattering psyche (illustrated to great effect by cracking walls) feels like a precursor to even more hallucinatory films like Woman in the Dunes, Eraserhead, etc. If you like those, you need to see this.

Captures the point of view of one person as well as any movie ever has. A very stylish horror film.