For its part, 'THR' called the British-made pic "serious and artful" but described it as "one of the bloodiest films ever made" and said it should be "forbidden to children." By Bill Higgins In 1965, ...

Few films are more unsettling than Roman Polanski’s “Repulsion.” A spine-chilling 1965 shocker about an emotionally fragile young woman’s descent into madness, it shows London’s “Swinging ’60s” in a ...

Roman Polanski’s Repulsion (1965) has been the subject of much critical analysis in an effort to ferret out exactly what the hell is wrong with the film’s main character. When we first meet Carol ...

Polanski once said in an interview that Repulsion is one of the films he made as ‘matters of convenience’. In this case he was flat broke in London and was offered the chance to make a horror film.

Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through our links on this page. In its last screening before taking a summer break, the Film Society/ Le Cinéclub will show Roman ...

Polanski’s classic claustrophobic thriller about a shy, obsessive young woman having visions and slowly going mad inside a Paris apartment seems to make the rep rounds at the Film Forum every year or ...