"Repulsion" (1965)

There's a reason you've never heard of this movie, and it's not because it blows. It's because it's old. Like original "Psycho" old. Actually, it's alot like "Psycho" now that I think of it. All the way down to the homicidal driving force of guilt due to sexual perversion.

Carol has always been a bit off center; apathetic when it comes to the mechanical, everyday repetitions of life. Her disinterests include boys, conversations, food, and sleep, to name a few. Her interests include rape hallucinations and listening to her sister get it on every night with her live-in boyfriend. In fact, Carols' life sort of revolves around her sisters' to an increasingly unhealthy degree. She sure is dreading that trip her sister will be taking with her stupid boyfriend in a few days...
"While the cat's away the mouse will play," is how the saying goes. For Carol it goes alittle more along the lines of "While the cat's away the mouse will go nuts and kill two men in the apartment while severing a womans' finger at work and carrying a rabbit heart around in her purse." So basically, this movie has everything you would expect from a Polanski film, including unexpectability. Polanski somehow manages to combine extreme suspense, sexual perversion, and a timelessness so rare to films, it makes me more than alittle bit sad that it's not more well known. There is a scene in this film where the adversary commits murder via straight razor that was so anticipated it made me flinch. I repeat, a film from 1965 made me flinch. How cool is that?
I know it seems like I completely gave this film away, but there is so much to this movie that is just visually necessary. It's impossible to explain. I would give this movie a 9.0/10. While being alittle slow at times, the only way to explain this films unpopularity is to assume that it was too far ahead of it's time, as is the style of Roman Polanski.