Review #238: Repulsion (1965)
This review was originally written in October 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #92: Repulsion (1965) I'm gonna get this right out there: I did not like this movie. Not at all. I'd be very comfortable placing this in the bottom five out of all of the movies I've watched this year, and that's saying something. At no point in this entire movie did I feel like I was enjoying myself, and reading some of the other reviews people have written about this just makes it all sound like pretentious nonsense. Repulsion is a film about Carol, a Belgian manicurist living in London with her sister Helen. Carol has some sort of serious cognitive disorder that causes her to hyper-focus and obsess over certain things to the great detriment of her social and professional life, and (possibly related) she also has some sort of underlying discomfort with sexuality and men in general. Her sister goes out of town leaving her on her own, and her cognitive disorder gets so bad...