Repulsion

The descent into madness in Repulsion: dream states and the stages of movie madness

Robert Mahoney RMarts 1·7·2016

The dazed brutality at the heart of Roman Polanski’s films

Leo Robson The Guardian 12·28·2012

The Cracks That Can’t Be Mended or Polanski’s Repulsion

Matty Stanfield mattystanfield.com 10·22·2015

The Attraction Of Repulsion

Desson Howe The Washington Post 10·31·1997

The 30 Best Female-Led Horror Films of All Time

Angelica Jade Bastién Vulture 9·21·2017

The 18 Best Horror Movies of the 1960s

Brian Formo Collider 10·3·2017

Stephen King’s 58 Favorite Scary Movies, From ‘Repulsion’ to ‘Crimson Peak’

Indie Wire 8·21·2017

So beautiful yet so disordered

Sam Adams The Los Angeles Times 7·26·2009

Sexual Violence and Female Experience in Roman Polanski’s Apartment Trilogy: Repulsion, Rosemary’s Baby, The Tenant

Elise Moore Bright Lights Film Journal 6·6·2016

Sex and Psychosis: Roman Polanski’s Repulsion and the Inherent Trauma of Womanhood

Emily-Rose Baker Track Changes 9·8·2018

Seven Ways to Be a Misogynist in Repulsion

Jandy The-Frame 5·2·2014

Roman Polanski’s Psychological Horror Tour-De-Force, ‘Repulsion’, Turns 51!

Daniel Kurland Bloody Disgusting 10·3·2016

Roman Polanski’s ‘Repulsion’ “I think you must be in love or something…”

WondersInTheDark 9·30·2015

Roman Polanski Understands Women: Repulsion

Kim Morgan Huffington Post 12·6·2007

Repulsion’ — the ‘Psycho’ of ’65; Movie on Insanity By Pole Opens at N.Y. Theatre

Bosley Crowther The New York Times 5·4·1965

Repulsion: Quiet Perfection

Andre Dumas The Horror Digest 1·22·2011

Repulsion: His Toothbrush in My Glass

Manish Mathur Brattle Theatre Film Notes 5·18·2015

Repulsion: Eye of the Storm

Bill Horrigan The Criterion Collection 7·27·2009

Repulsion: Cracks in the Façade

Stefan Hedmark Thrill Me Softly 9·6·2007

Repulsion, with Jamie Dew

Matthew Price & Dan Gorman Let’s Scare Matthew Price to Death 9·12·2019

Repulsion and The Tenant, Roman Polanski and the Art of Humiliation – Part Two of “You Only Have Yourself To Blame” – The Claustrophobia Films of Roman Polanski

Greg Klymkiw The Film Corner 12·19·2011

Repulsion (1965) Documentary Short – Interview w/ Dir. Roman Polanski – Ian Hendry

Uploaded by Ian Hendry 6·20·2013

Repulsion (1965) – Terror, Hatred, and Feminism

Erik, Kyle, and Sean The Classic Horror Cast 3·12·2015

Repulsion – A Roman Polanski Film. Fourth Review in The Haunted Apartment Series

Daniel Walters The Books Of Daniel 8·3·2018

Polanski’s `Repulsion’ Still a chilling portrayal of erotic panic

Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune 5·3·1997

Original Stills Discovered In Paris

Nail Hendry Ian Hendry Official Tribute 3·19·2008

Michael Lehmann on Repulsion

Created by Trailers From Hell 7·2·2013

Life’s Work: The Films of Roman Polanski – Chapter 5: Repulsion: The Dark Side of Desire

Uploaded by Press Play Video Blog Created by Kim Morgan, Matt Zoller Seitz 5·2·2011

Journey Into A Mad Mind: You won’t enjoy Repulsion — but you must see it

Wendy Michener Maclean's 2·19·1966

Imprisoned in Disgust: Roman Polanski’s Repulsion

Tarja Laine euppublishing.com Film-Philosophy, University of Amsterdam 1·1·2011

Horror Film Analysis: The Uncanny in Roman Polanski’s Repulsion

JIll Shipman jillshipman.com 3·6·2019

Hollywood Flashback: Cannes Was Wary Of Roman Polanski’s Bloody ‘Repulsion’ in 1965

Bill Higgins The Hollywood Reporter 5·11·2018

Hiding Behind a Blank-Face Mask

Nicolas Rapold The New York Sun 4·21·2006

Gilbert Taylor, BSC is given the spotlight with the ASC’s International Achievement Award

David E. Williams The American Society Of Cinematographers American Cinematographer 2·1·2006

Discussing Repulsion

Zachary Cohen and Kraig Ueberroth 1·21·2018

Deneuve-Shredding: Repulsion Revisited

Basia Lewandowska Cummings The Quietus 1·4·2013

Delusional Albion: how foreign directors saw Swinging 60s Britain

Brad Stevens British Film Institute Sight & Sound Magazine 4·24·2018

Classic 60s Movie: Repulsion

Kate Hagen Go Into The Story By Scott Myers 1·24·2015

Bizarre Horror Movie Gems You Probably Haven’t Seen

Lauren Treihaft, Jessica Ferri CBS News

Art of the Title: Repulsion

Created by Art of the Title

Are these the greatest movies of all time? Every film to receive a 100% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes

The Telegraph 6·9·2017

A Woman Repulsed, a Man Convulsed

Dave Kehr The New York Times 7·22·2009

A Crack That Needs Mending: Roman Polanski’s Repulsion

Aaron Hendrix Talk Film Society 9·12·2017

50th Anniversary Tribute Part #3

Nail Hendry Ian Hendry Official Tribute 2·17·2015

50th Anniversary Tribute Part #2

Nail Hendry Ian Hendry Official Tribute 2·14·2015

50th Anniversary Tribute Part #1

Neil Hendry Ian Hendry Official Tribute 2·14·2015

50 years ago, Repulsion pioneered a new genre of gendered horror

Grey Cwik AV Club 10·31·2015

11 Movies by Roman Polanski You Should Watch

Maria Angelíca Maia Culture Trip 8·25·2017

“Sexual repression, sexual panic, frigidity, and paranoia…”

Matt Mazur PopMatters 8·13·2009

“Phallic and penetration symbols galore, Repulsion is a gold mine for any student of Freud…”

Another Film Buff The Seventh Art 10·25·2009

“Helen is having an affair with an insensitive married man…”

Gus Cileone My Meaningful Movies 8·16·2015

“A thread of deadpan feminist satire runs through Polanski’s narrative.”

Michael Sragow The Criterion Collection 1·7·1991

“A sex-repulsed woman slowly sinks into madness.”

Seth Steele True Myth Media 6·11·2019

“A moody French girl…”

Martin S. Levine The Harvard Crimson 11·10·1965

“A beam of light shines directly on the face of what is likely the young Carol…”

Dan Schneider The Spinning Image

“…warped world created from a single point of view.”

Peter Bradshaw The Guardian 1·3·2013

“…the carcass of a skinned rabbit which is left on the kitchen sink.”

Albert Johnson University of California Press Film Quarterly, Vol. 19 No. 3, (pp. 44-45) 3·21·1966

“…the apartment, shabby in the first place, becomes a shambles…”

Emanuel Levy Emanuel Levy Cinema 24/7 7·25·2009

“…studying her psychology rather than the male gaze…”

Created by DeepFocusLens 2·5·2017

“…showing men as mysterious, overbearing beings…”

Evan Popplestone Thoughts From Cinema's Fringes

“…she applies lipstick as if to be ‘getting ready for her attacker to arrive…”

Chelsea Butler Chelsea Butler 12·10·2014

“…overwhelming sexual fear…”

Ian Johnson Not Coming 10·24·2005

“…ordinary objects and sounds take on an otherworldly quality.”

Gregory J. Smalley 366 Weird Movies 10·8·2008

“…jaunty jazz music expresses a detached, unmoved tone to her tragic plight.”

Justin Aylward On This Day In Film

“…gazing beyond this world, into some perfect plane of existence only the insane can see…”

Jean Roman Polanski The Ballad of Contradictions

“…dozens of arms materializing from the walls and groping her.”

James Kendrick The QNetwork

“…Carol is left alone in a house that closes in on her.”

Angeliki Coconi Unsung Films 8·28·2014

“…Carol has to endure hearing her sister having sex at night.”

Thevoid99 Surrender to the Void 10·22·2012

“…bombarded and attacked with the unabated male libido.”

Alan Bacchus Daily Film Dose 8·30·2009

“…an extremely disturbing scene that stays with one long afterwards…”

Richard Scheib Moria Reviews

“…a template for all the subsequent psychotic slasher flicks…”

David Blakeslee Criterion Reflections 3·16·2014

“…a sweet, innocent living thing uncovered and ruined, all for the satisfaction of one’s appetite…”

Mawr Gorshin Infinite Ocean 2·26·2020

‘Repulsion’ a Hothouse of Insanity

Mark Chalon Smith The Los Angeles Times 5·30·1996

`Repulsion’s’ nightmare qualities endure beyond the swinging ’60s

Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune 5·26·2016

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The Eye Boundary: Repulsion

The descent into madness in Repulsion: dream states and the stages of movie madness

The dazed brutality at the heart of Roman Polanski’s films

The Cracks That Can’t Be Mended or Polanski’s Repulsion

The Attraction Of Repulsion

The 30 Best Female-Led Horror Films of All Time

The 18 Best Horror Movies of the 1960s

Stephen King’s 58 Favorite Scary Movies, From ‘Repulsion’ to ‘Crimson Peak’

So beautiful yet so disordered

Sexual Violence and Female Experience in Roman Polanski’s Apartment Trilogy: Repulsion, Rosemary’s Baby, The Tenant

Sex and Psychosis: Roman Polanski’s Repulsion and the Inherent Trauma of Womanhood

Seven Ways to Be a Misogynist in Repulsion

Roman Polanski’s Psychological Horror Tour-De-Force, ‘Repulsion’, Turns 51!

Roman Polanski’s ‘Repulsion’ “I think you must be in love or something…”

Roman Polanski Understands Women: Repulsion

Repulsion’ — the ‘Psycho’ of ’65; Movie on Insanity By Pole Opens at N.Y. Theatre

Repulsion: Quiet Perfection

Repulsion: His Toothbrush in My Glass

Repulsion: Eye of the Storm

Repulsion: Cracks in the Façade

Repulsion, with Jamie Dew

Repulsion and The Tenant, Roman Polanski and the Art of Humiliation – Part Two of “You Only Have Yourself To Blame” – The Claustrophobia Films of Roman Polanski

Repulsion (1965) Documentary Short – Interview w/ Dir. Roman Polanski – Ian Hendry

Repulsion (1965) – Terror, Hatred, and Feminism

Repulsion – A Roman Polanski Film. Fourth Review in The Haunted Apartment Series

Polanski’s `Repulsion’ Still a chilling portrayal of erotic panic

Original Stills Discovered In Paris

Michael Lehmann on Repulsion

Life’s Work: The Films of Roman Polanski – Chapter 5: Repulsion: The Dark Side of Desire

Journey Into A Mad Mind: You won’t enjoy Repulsion — but you must see it

Imprisoned in Disgust: Roman Polanski’s Repulsion

Horror Film Analysis: The Uncanny in Roman Polanski’s Repulsion

Hollywood Flashback: Cannes Was Wary Of Roman Polanski’s Bloody ‘Repulsion’ in 1965

Hiding Behind a Blank-Face Mask

Gilbert Taylor, BSC is given the spotlight with the ASC’s International Achievement Award

Discussing Repulsion

Deneuve-Shredding: Repulsion Revisited

Delusional Albion: how foreign directors saw Swinging 60s Britain

Classic 60s Movie: Repulsion

Bizarre Horror Movie Gems You Probably Haven’t Seen

Art of the Title: Repulsion

Are these the greatest movies of all time? Every film to receive a 100% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes

A Woman Repulsed, a Man Convulsed

A Crack That Needs Mending: Roman Polanski’s Repulsion

50th Anniversary Tribute Part #3

50th Anniversary Tribute Part #2

50th Anniversary Tribute Part #1

50 years ago, Repulsion pioneered a new genre of gendered horror

11 Movies by Roman Polanski You Should Watch

“Sexual repression, sexual panic, frigidity, and paranoia…”

“Phallic and penetration symbols galore, Repulsion is a gold mine for any student of Freud…”

“Helen is having an affair with an insensitive married man…”

“A thread of deadpan feminist satire runs through Polanski’s narrative.”

“A sex-repulsed woman slowly sinks into madness.”

“A moody French girl…”

“A beam of light shines directly on the face of what is likely the young Carol…”

“…warped world created from a single point of view.”

“…the carcass of a skinned rabbit which is left on the kitchen sink.”

“…the apartment, shabby in the first place, becomes a shambles…”

“…studying her psychology rather than the male gaze…”

“…showing men as mysterious, overbearing beings…”

“…she applies lipstick as if to be ‘getting ready for her attacker to arrive…”

“…overwhelming sexual fear…”

“…ordinary objects and sounds take on an otherworldly quality.”

“…jaunty jazz music expresses a detached, unmoved tone to her tragic plight.”

“…gazing beyond this world, into some perfect plane of existence only the insane can see…”

“…dozens of arms materializing from the walls and groping her.”

“…Carol is left alone in a house that closes in on her.”