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
EAN5060020621789
eBay Product ID (ePID)3959651
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 Time104 Mins
FormatDVD
Release Year2003
FeaturesBlack & White, Audio Commentary - 1. Roman Polanski - Director\Additional Audio Material - 1. Eye and Brain by Professor Richard Gregory\Featurette - 1. A BRITISH HORROR FILM\Theatrical Trailer\Scene Access\Interactive Menus\Photos\Stills\Production Art - 1. Original Drawings by Art Director Seamus Flannery\Biographies\Original Script Extracts\Poster Art\Collector's Booklet\Liner Notes
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate18
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
ComposerChico Hamilton
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
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.
Art DirectorSeamus Flannery
ScreenwriterRoman Polanski
Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1\DTS Surround 5.1
Movie/TV TitleRepulsion
EditorAlastair McIntyre
Director of PhotographyGilbert Taylor