The weakest of his "Apartment Trilogy" but still very good. The end occasionally walks the line of being both creepy and a bit silly, but overall the tension and strangeness is built effectively. Polanski's pretty good in this too.

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Roman Polanski Goes Batshit Insane: The Movie.

In a similar vein to Rosemary's Baby (albeit of a lesser caliber), this is a neat psychological horror film. The pacing is a bit off and the sound mixing needs work, but the underlying tension and a few truly creepy scenes/images make this worthwhile.

Dark. Polanski reminds me a lot of Argento here.

Really enjoyed this - you can see what's happening all the way through and it suffers from its cinematic successors but it's still extremely well done and balances the psychological/actual terror well. Genuinely creepy.

I would say, it's an early mindfuck flick.

It is tempting to see Polanski's black comedy of urban paranoia as a companion piece to his _Repulsion_, only in the masculine gender, with Polanski himself playing the fretful, pitiful little hero. Really, though, it has as much in common with Neil Simon's _Prisoner of Second Avenue_. The main similarity between the two Polanskis is in the mechanical -- and very skillful -- management of fright gimmicks.

Some sound problems, but this is a genuine horror movie.

In ranking The Apartment Trilogy, I'd place this between Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby. The Tenant is, like the latter, kind of ridiculous at times, but never to a point where things become too unbelievable. And it's far more enigmatic and subtle.

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Very Nice Movie

This completes Polanski's unofficial "apartment horror trilogy" and in my opinion, it's the best of them. Delightfully creepy in all the right places, with just a dash of black humor. The ambiguity is great: is it all a paranoid delusion, or is he the victim of an occult-like (Rosemary's Baby-style) conspiracy? In the end, both possibilities seem equally plausible. Polanski himself does a fine job in the lead role, although I can't help but wonder if someone else might have been a little better.

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Unique, bizarrely cast horror film. Critically drubbed upon release but a latter-day cult item. Fine photography by Sven Nykvist.

Polanski remakes _Repulsion_ in color starring himself. Interesting conceit but, still, been there, done that

Very similar to Rosemary's Baby, in the way it so patiently build up the (psychological) terror. One of Polanski's most spellbinding films.

Just freakin terrible. Not sure which was worse for Polanski--the acting or the directing.

Polanski delivers good horror with a decent performance in the lead. It takes some time to get to the horror though.

People staring from the toilet window opposite is one of the eeriest idea in the film.

I loved the experience of watching it. The best description i can think of is "spooky Last tango in Paris". It aged a bit but it is still worth seeing.

Extremely well shot in my opinion. Enigmatic and alluring. Not quite as strong as Repulsion, but I'd definitely recommend it.