she'll find you
& she'll kill you
someone escapes or doesn't. the way out may be up or below or nowhere. no one dies or many are murdered. there may be a man in the house. "No one needs to be in charge when everyone has a knife."
“Repulsion” begins with a beauty in a dark depression, and yet what follows is an even deeper spiral within, which yields catastrophic results with every outward encounter. time is marked through the steady decay of a rabbit’s corpse on a serving platter; an oppressive memory physically manifests and pushes our heroine down, deeper than the mind can handle. "Repulsion" is Polanski's first on the apartment theme - see also his "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Tenant." "Repulsion" also seems heavily influenced by Monroe's "Don't Bother to Knock."