I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

This is often known as 'Roman Polanski's Repulsion', so inter-twined is the director and this piece of work. Catherine Deneuve plays listless Carol, a stunning blond who acts like the dowdiest wallflower you could meet. She lives with her sister Helen (Yvonne Furneaux), married boyfriend Michael (Ian Hendry) and is pursued - without much success - by Colin (John Fraser). The attention to minutiae in the dilapidated building is not dissimilar to the location in Polanski's 'The Tenant (1976)'.In fact, that is not the only similarity - Carol could be a relation of the other film's central Trelkovsky character; she even knocks heads with Colin as Trelkovsky does with Isabelle Adjani's Stella in a similar scene in the later film. Equally, her comparable descent from being merely preoccupied to full paranoia to the point of hallucination adds to this exploration into her increasingly fragile mental state.As a shocking tale of someone sliding into insanity, I found this effective, but unfairly, I feel it has dated in a way that 'The Tenant' has not. It is still a persuasive and occasionally unnerving depiction of madness. Deneuve is very good in it, as is the rest of the cast, and Polanski makes the most of her increasing physical and mental isolation.

I understand that some people enjoy hidden meanings and "art" films, but learn how to combine an entertaining plot with your hidden message, much like Kubrick did with 'The Shining'. That is, if you want to make a truly good film that reaches people on different levels and different interests. Repulsion is just so aimless and uninteresting. It's as drab and boring as the black and white. Yeah, it was shot well. Yeah, the acting works, but you have no plot to follow other than your own. You take nothing away from this movie other than speculation and uncertainty.

One of Roman Polanski's finer works, this film is an almost perfect blend between Rosemary's Baby and Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Polanski uses this horror element in order to convey a messages of both sexuality and childhood trauma (which is a bit ironic since he raped a child himself) and although it isn't exactly subtle the fluidity of which these messages are conveyed, aided by some truly haunting visuals makes for nothing but a good time.

Give me back the minutes i wasted watching this horrible movie. 7.8 on imdb? really? are you blind? it should have been 1.8.