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    Repulsion (1965)

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    Roman Polanski’s Repulsion – his first film in English – was concerned with repressed young Belgian woman, Carol Ledoux (Catherine Deneuve) whose fear of sex leads her to withdraw into paranoid isolation in an apartment in London’s South Kensington.

    She then proceeds to brutally murder her would-be boyfriend (John Fraser) and slash her lecherous landlord (Patrick Wymark) to death with a razor when they attempt to establish contact with her.

    We follow Carol’s descent into madness through her eyes, from the minutely observed obsession with cracks in the pavement to the terrifying hallucinations which crowd in on her.

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    The film’s sense of oppressive decay is symbolised by the image of a foetus-like skinned rabbit stuffed into Deneuve’s handbag.

    Repulsion was a lean, finely-etched film, full of powerful images which the British censor, John Trevelyna, left untouched. All in all, one of the most intelligent horror movies ever made, and certainly one of the most frighteningly effective.

    repulsion_001Carol Ledoux
    Catherine Deneuve
    Michael

    Ian Hendry
    Colin

    John Fraser 
    Helen Ledoux

    Yvonne Furneaux
    Landlord

    Patrick Wymark repulsion_002
    Miss Balch

    Renee Houston 
    Madame Denise
    Valerie Taylor 
    John

    James Villiers 
    Bridget Bishop

    Helen Fraser
    repulsion_004Reggie
    Hugh Futcher
    Mrs Rendlesham

    Monica Merlin

    Director
    Roman Polanski

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