repulsion

The strange attraction of vile acts, dark emotions and messed up characters

Reviews:

• Repulsion: Roman Polanski’s masterful study of a woman’s disintegrating sanity
• Edmond: A revulsion-causing hellish drama scripted by David Mamet
• Zombie Flesh Eaters: Properly putrefying zombies
• Rolling Thunder: ‘A fascinating push-pull of attraction-repulsion to the psychotic protagonist’

Articles:

• A Short Note on Vomit
• When No Means Oh OK: A dubious return to 70s-style rape in film
• Super Size Cinema: The Art of Gluttony

Interviews:

• American Mary: Jen and Sylvia Soska and star Katharine Isabelle talk about their unnpleasant but likeable feminist heroine
• Ruggero Deodato on Cannibal Holocaust

Comic Strip Review:

• Maniac: A repellent anti-hero

Reel Sounds:

• Cannibal Holocaust: The perverse contrast between sonic beauty and visual horror

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Illustration by Timur Hassan