October 27th, 2013 
Mike Giegerich 
Of all the holidays celebrated worldwide, no single day is more loved by the UTG staff than Halloween. With the arrival of October, the time has finally come to begin rolling out a plethora of features and special announcements we have prepared in celebration of our favorite day, including the one you’re about to read.
31 Days Of Halloween is a recurring daily feature that will run throughout the month of October. The hope and goal of this column is to supply every UTG reader with a daily horror (or Halloween themed) movie recommendation that is guaranteed to amplify your All Hallows’ Eve festivities. We’ll be watching every film the day it’s featured, and we hope you’ll follow along at home. If you have a suggestion, contact us and we may include your favorite scarefest in an upcoming column!
Day 27: Repulsion (1965)
While looking to delve into the wide world of film one summer night, I chose Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby. With a creeping progression that drew me in and kept me absolutely invested for its entire run-time, I was absolutely blown away by the film and instantly decided to watch another one of Polanski’s works as I craved more cinema with the feeling of true depth.
After consulting with a friend who is best described as a film connoisseur, I decided upon Polanski’s first film in the English language: Repulsion. Exhaustion was creeping up on me at this point as the night slowly became morning, but I pushed forward, pressed play, and entered what appeared to be the relatively unassuming world of the beautiful Carole Ledoux. Struggling to focus at work and attempting to reject a man who is utterly infatuated with her, her issues do not seem to be far removed from an average life, but this notion only furthers the level of tension before her well-documented descent into a psychological collapse occurs as her repulsion in regards to sexuality and the opposite gender unfolds.
The fashion in which Ledoux’s decline is portrayed is an experience unmatched as it masterfully blurs the lines between imagination and reality in a way that truly enthralled my tired mind like never before. As every minute passed, my eyelids sunk along with my heart as her mental state results in scenes of terrifying sexual assault within her mind and the growing natural response to legitimately kill men who made unwarranted advances upon her. No matter what plane of existence the events took place in, though, I felt true emotional pain for her as everything she experiences has horrifyingly real consequences.
As the film began to progress towards its end and Ledoux’s mental stability was verging on nonexistent, I desperately wanted to alter the events that had occurred and trade a phenomenal exploration of the human psyche for her well-being. Unfortunately, some hopes are futile. Once she had been discovered hiding under her bed in a state of terror and the credits rolled, I shut my laptop, closed my eyes, and went to bed knowing that nothing could be done to save the woman whom I had watched endure pure torment and collapse into nothingness. For the first time, a film completely blindsided me with a character who could not be saved from their inner demise.
Editorial written by: Michael Giegerich – (Follow him on Twitter)
Last year’s Day 27 film: Event Horizon
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