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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0016226211922
Format: NTSC
Label: ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMS INC.
Manufacturer: ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMS INC.
Publisher: ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMS INC.
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 08, 2005
Running Time: 105 minutes
Sales Rank: 9286
Studio: ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMS INC.
Theatrical Release Date: October 03, 1965
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great film, poor DVD
I am only rating this three stars because this particular DVD is of such poor quality. If you have a multi-region player I would recommend buying the region 2 version of this film (available here and on Amazon UK) - I have seen both versions and the picture quality on the region 2 version is far superior. Other than that - Repulsion is a gem. Polanski at his finest. Cannot recommend this movie enough. Agreed on the calls for a Criterion Collection release!
Rating:  - A masterpiece!
I've seen "Repulsion" quite a few times over the years, and it never gets any less absorbing to watch in spite of knowing the outcome.
Catherine Denueve is incandescently beautiful in it but this all masks her real persona which I guess is shown in the early photograph of her when she was just a child. The rest of her family, involved all together in the event of having their picture taken, but her, aloof, distant, in the background, staring into space, not really wanting to be a part of it. ... Read More
Rating: - Timeless Horror: As Cinematic as a Silent Film. As Modern as a Contemporary Film.
"Repulsion" (1965) was Roman Polanski's first English language film and the first of what would retrospectively be thought of as his "apartment trilogy", the other two films being "Rosemary's Baby" (1968) and "The Tenant" (1976). Whatever your neighbors might be up to, it is probably best left undiscovered. "Repulsion" is top-notch psychological horror about a woman's descent into madness within the confines of her apartment, aided by nothing more than her own troubled psyche and everyday creaks and ... Read More
Rating:  - GREAT FILM...poorly rendered
A beautiful young woman (ravishing Catherine Deneuve) with a "repulsion" toward men, slowly sinks into madness and murder. Creepy and terrifying, this is among Roman Polanski's best work. The film is ***** all the way. It deserves far better treatment than this murky pan-and-scan DVD version that looks like it was video taped off a late night TV showing. Let's hope somebody at Criterion thinks it's at least as worthwhile as "Robinson Crusoe on Mars" and "The Blob."
Rating: - I liked it
I truly enjoy this film. I heard of it from Cynthia Freeland's book "The Naked and the Undead," a feminist perspective of horror films. Maybe because of this I was more prepared for what to expect. I thought her analysis was intriguing and I sought out the movie because of it.
I think the movie is a great film. Weird, strange, at times disgusting--of course. But I still like it. I also like Rosemary's Baby.
As for the DVD itself. My copy does still have the scratchy/grainy ... Read More
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