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REPULSION. This classic chiller by Writer-Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water) gathers images of horror from the shattered psyche of a lissome French manicurist (Catherine Deneuve) whose sexual fantasies drive her to murder...
REPULSION. With monstrous art, Writer-Director Roman Polanski wrings a classic chiller from the pulse-quickening misdeeds of a lovely French manicurist (Catherine Deneuve) whose problems seem reminiscent of that classic chiller Psycho...
...dark art of menace. Polanski's first English-language film, Repulsion at first glance looks like a case study of a fragile psychopath. 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...
...recast the Ring in the latter-day terms of Jung and Freud. "I wanted to show how many archetypic, primordial, age-old and yet permanently renewing elements of mankind are contained in my grandfather's tetralogy," says Wieland, "and secondly, to prove it is a crime story and chiller of the first order-blood, murder and sex, with more surprise and suspense than a James Bond thriller...
...tempted to take a powder. But those who can stomach Bette's cooking-on another occasion she serves a salad of unplucked parakeet-will be amply rewarded by the horror of her company. In what may well be the year's scariest, funniest and most sophisticated chiller, she gives a performance that cannot be called great acting but is certainly grand guignol. And Joan effectively plays the bitch to Bette's witch...