There’s enough thematic weight to make this a horror film that appeals to more than just violence junkies, but mainstream viewers may cringe through the experience. Repulse never purely feels like unjustified “torture porn” and it at least has something to say on grief, trauma, and forgiveness. The film’s tagline proudly boasts that this is “the most extreme film to come out of the Czech Republic.” It’s certainly as nihilistic as central Europe’s previous heavy horror hitter, A Serbian Film, but it’s hardly as intense or with as much to say. On that note, Repulse feels cut (or rather hacked) from the same cloth as other gratuitous torture tales like Martyrs and Inside. There are repeated moments where Viktor’s state of arrested development doesn’t seem dissimilar to the Sawyer family in Texas Chainsaw Massacre or other fringe deviants like Leslie Vernon. It’s surrounded with nature and smoke, while the other family exists in the height of luxury and urban life. The trailer that Viktor ( Stepán Kozub ) is forced to live out his days in almost looks feral or that it’s pulled out of a haunted fairytale. Despite these differences, Repulse highlights that pain and grief don’t discriminate regardless of someone’s background or social strata. One is methodical and capable, while the other is crude. One family is clean the other is ensconced in filth. Repulse thrives with how it compares and contrasts these families. Both of these families are indebted to the idea of guardians and caretakers in one way or another, which turn the act of survival into a process that’s even more painful and depressing than death. ![]() These frayed family units process this trauma through uniquely horrifying coping mechanisms. Repulse engages in a staggering, heartbreaking dissection of two grieving families that are connected in vile ways. ![]() However, once the image of Repulse finally begins to take shape it’s too late to escape or become immune to these human horrors. Repulse’s most striking trait is the back-and-forth bifurcated narrative where its audience gradually begins to put together the pieces of this traumatic puzzle box. Repulse is one big Russian nesting doll of pain, torture, and humility that only grows more toxic as the film digs deeper and casts a wider net. It’s a grim mission statement, but one that reverberates through every single frame of Emil Krizka’s Repulse. It’s an isolating tactic, but one that immediately establishes that the world is a harsh, angry, confusing place. Repulse is intentionally sparse with its dialogue so that the raw weight of every gesture and groan speak for themselves. ![]() Screams of anguish are the only forms of dialogue that are present in the first ten minutes of Repulse, Emil Krizka’s ode to anger and revenge from the Czech Republic. The Vault boasts an impressive cast, including up-and-coming star Francesca Eastwood ( M.F.A., Final Girl) with James Franco ( Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Alien: Covenant), Taryn Manning, Scott Haze, Q’Orianka Kilcher and Clifton Collins Jr.Ĭzech Republic’s ‘Repulse’ sinks the audience into an extended exercise in trauma that turns to brevity and non-linear storytelling to amplify its pain. But the bank’s basement hides a terrible secret and before long, the Dillons have to choose whether to face the police outside or the terrible supernatural forces in the vault below.” “ In order to save their brother Michael’s life, the Dillon sisters, Leah and Vee have organized a bank robbery, but when the upstairs vault doesn’t have enough money to cover Michael’s debt, on the advice of Assistant Bank Manager Ed Maas, they drill into the downstairs vault. There’s clearly something mysterious afoot. ![]() It’s a montage of footage showing a heist gone terribly wrong with some sort of killer or killers on the loose. Now, we have the official trailer for the film described as The Town meets The Sixth Sense. Just the other day we told you that The Signal director Dan Bush‘s supernatural thriller The Vault will be released here in the States on September 1st via FilmRise with Content Media sending to UK cinemas on September 8th.
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