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UNITED KINGDOM · 1965
Repulsion
Synopsis
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.
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I’m obsessed by the psychological horror of Repulsion or The Tenant. Polanski’s movies.
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mental illness · isolation and withdrawal · fear of men · psychological breakdown · loneliness
