Product Information
A young, beautiful, but sexually repressed, girl descends into a vortex of madness when she is left on her own after her sister goes away on holiday...Product Identifiers
ProducerGene Gutowski
EAN5060082513053
eBay Product ID (ePID)102196296
Product Key Features
ActorCatherine Deneuve, James Villiers, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux, Ian Hendry, Patrick Wymark, Valerie Taylor, Renee Houston
Film/TV TitleRepulsion
DirectorRoman Polanski
LanguageEnglish
Run Time101 Mins
Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Release Year2010
FormatDVD
FeaturesBlack & White, Clive James Interviews Roman Polanski in Cannes\Theatrical Trailer\Stills Gallery, Widescreen
GenreDrama, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate18
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
ComposerChico Hamilton
Additional InformationREPULSION, 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 never leaves the building herself, in effect breaking off all contact with the outside world. In this claustrophobic environment, she begins to lose her grip on reality, suffering from hallucinations of being attacked by a phantom rapist and hands reaching out from the walls to grab her. Highly acclaimed and extremely gripping, Polanski's disturbing film can be seen as a prelude to his later work in the field of psychological horror: ROSEMARY'S BABY and, especially, THE TENANT.
ReviewsUSA Today - ...An all-time chiller..., Chicago Sun-Times - ...Polanski ups the horror ante with stylish, Hitchcockian filmmaking that makes the most of shadow and nuance and is chock-full of symbolism and subtext..., Entertainment Weekly - "...[Deneuve is] heart-stoppingly gorgeous....Chilly alienation." -- Rating: A
ScreenwriterRoman Polanski
Art DirectorSeamus Flannery
Sound sourceDolby Digital\Dolby Digital 5.1\Dolby Digital Mono
EditorAlastair McIntyre
Movie/TV TitleRepulsion
Director of PhotographyGilbert Taylor
Consumer AdviceContains strong violence and sexual violence