Repulsion

Presents the nightmare world of a virgin's dreams which become shocking reality. Tells how this young woman is both revolted yet fascinated by men and explains that when her two human connections to reality leave, insanity and murder follow. Stars Catherine Deneuve; directed by Roman Polanski.

Catherine Deneuve is a Belgian manicurist living in Battersea, London, with her older sister. She hallucinates, first seeing the walls cracking, a man breaking in and molesting her, later hands reaching out to grab and attack her. She bludgeons him to death with a candlestick, dumps the body into the overflowing bathtub, and nails the broken door shut.