Repulsion (1965)
3/10
Compulsion
13 August 2015
Warning: Spoilers
The young director had a hit with his first picture, and now he wants to follow with another film to shake up the critics and the movie goers that he's for real as force in film to be reckoned with. He'll put together a shocker that will have the smackings of a horror picture, a psychological drama, and above all a nail chewer. It will be the story of a young and beautiful girl who goes mad in the movies. First off, the girl must be a raving beauty, the kind that guys fall over. There will be scenes where she imagines just that: guys crawling all over her. It will take place in an apartment, not a haunted house, but in the girl's mind, it's haunted alright. She'll be dressed throughout in flimsy night gown, just see-through enough to feed the imagination. There'll be blood and gore, most of it the result of her breakdown, clearly a fear of men, of sex, and of intimacy. He won't get into any kind of Freudian cause of her insanity. Leave it up to the viewers, they like analyze. He has no concern about making a picture without redeeming social value. It really won't have a screenplay. It will be enough to see a young beauty come apart at the seams.
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