Repulsion1965

🏆 Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award2 wins & 4 nominations total

Horror Vault's take

Roman Polanski's landmark psychological horror follows a fragile young Belgian woman living in 1960s London whose grip on reality begins to slip the moment she is left alone in her sister's flat. Shot in stark black and white, the film places the viewer uncomfortably inside a disintegrating mind, rendering hallucinations and waking life nearly indistinguishable. As the outside world — particularly its male inhabitants — presses in, the apartment itself seems to become a living extension of her terror. Few films have depicted the internal architecture of a breakdown with such unrelenting, suffocating precision.

Content: Depictions Of Psychosis And Mental Illness, Violence, Sexual Threat And Assault, Disturbing Hallucinations