Repulsion 1965

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: Prepare yourself to be demolished when you go to see it -- and go you must, because it's one of those films everybody will soon be buzzing about. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Roman Polanski's first film in English is still his scariest and most disturbing. Read more

Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: Roman Polanski's first English-language film is still a creepy little horror masterpiece. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Repulsion is a frightening, fiercely entertaining experience that holds up to time. Read more

TIME Magazine: At second glance, or as often as a moviegoer can bear to peek through his knotted fingers, it is a Gothic horror story, a classic chiller of the Psycho school and approximately twice as persuasive. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Still perhaps Polanski's most perfectly realised film, a stunning portrait of the disintegration, mental and emotional, of a shy young Belgian girl (Deneuve) living in London. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Deneuve, without much dialog, handles a very difficult chore with insight and tact. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: The ordeal we and Polanski craved for Deneuve turned out to be just a sport, and we were the ball -- just as we'd hoped. Read more