Repulsion
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Oct 11, 2026
IzzyHOST
Hi, everyone.
HalHOST
So for our latest movie this month, my choice was Repulsion from 1965.
HalHOST
This was Roman Polanski's second ever movie.
HalHOST
Now you, as I expected, had no knowledge or awareness of this movie going into it.
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Something that she doesn't quite understand.
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And soon she will be swept up in a frantic fury of repulsion.
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Repulsion, a frightening film that takes the everyday world and distorts it.
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I wanted to be with you all the time.
Rob SpencerHOST
It's the far less famous version of a horror film.
Joe OdberHOST
Yeah, it's, people say it's, like, part of a trilogy with Repulsion as well.
Rob SpencerHOST
Oh, yeah.
Joe OdberHOST
Like Apartment with-
Rob SpencerHOST
Yeah, this actually is more like Repulsion than Rosemary's Baby really.
Joe OdberHOST
Mm.
Joe OdberHOST
Yeah, it is.
Joe OdberHOST
Rosemary's Baby, she's not going nuts.
Shane BeepsHOST
Th- this is all reminding me of a formative experience that I didn't think of until you talked about that, and you'd asked about this earlier, Stan.
Shane BeepsHOST
When I was, like, maybe 16 or 17, like, some high school friends went to the Cleveland Art Museum for a showing of Roman Polanski's Repulsion.
StanislavHOST
Mm-hmm.
Shane BeepsHOST
And I had no idea who Polanski was.
HalHOST
But this is a really low budget production and a limited setting film, but it's a really effective psychological horror.
HalHOST
So we'll be doing 1965's Repulsion with Catherine Deneuve.
IzzyHOST
I don't know anything about it.
IzzyHOST
No, no.
KatieHOST
Yeah.
KatieHOST
Directed by Roman Polanski, who directed Chinatown and Repulsion and The Pianist and many other movies.
KatieHOST
And is a famous, horrible person and a coward.
KatieHOST
Yep.
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KatieHOST
But Robert Evans was like, the people won't take it seriously if it comes from you.
CharlieUNKNOWN
Yeah.
KatieHOST
So he had seen Repulsion, as had a lot of people.
KatieHOST
It was a really big French movie from a few years before.
JohnHOST
Nuff said.
JohnHOST
1965, Repulsion.
JohnHOST
The amazing Catherine Deneau stumbles into madness before your eyes.
JohnHOST
It's amazing Roman Polanski got any work done.
Bill AllredHOST
Considered one of the greatest European actresses on film, she gained acclaim for her collaborations with Jacques Demy, starring in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Young Girls of Rochefort, and Donkeyskin.
Bill AllredHOST
She starred in Roman Polanski's Repulsion and Luis Bu- Buñuel's Belle de Jour.
Bill AllredHOST
Her blasphemy movie, The Brand New Testament, a whimsical fantasy where God lives as a petty, mean-spirited tyrant in Brussels until his young daughter hacks his computer and leaks everyone's predetermined death dates to the world.
Bill AllredHOST
[laughs] Number four, Catherine Deneuve.
Bjorn OlsonHOST
You know what movie this...
Bjorn OlsonHOST
This movie doesn't really remind me of Rosemary's Baby, but it does remind me of Repulsion in that it has that... caught in a world you can't get out of feel and and like you know you're you're sort of
Reece CrothersHOST
you've
Bjorn OlsonHOST
you've assumed this persona and the people around you are expect this kind of persona out of you and it's like killing you from within like yeah it's
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Bjorn OlsonHOST
character I've
Reece CrothersHOST
ever seen.
Reece CrothersHOST
I mean, there are some parallels to the fragility of the mental state, I think, in some pictures, and particularly in Repulsion.
Reece CrothersHOST
But just the specificity of her, of Frances, her peculiarities.