The Throughout the horror genre began to change. A growing trend in psychological

thrillers were shifting the horror away from monsters and ghouls and

external forces

towards more insular human stories.

In 1955, French director George Henry Cluseau

made Lady Abolique, a film that begins as a low-key, Hitchcockian mystery crime thriller,

but soon descends into a terrifying psychological and boundary pushing in the way that they told psychological stories.

In 1964 Polish director Roman Polanski made repulsion.

A simple story of a woman losing her mind, which to this day remains one of the most

terrifying spellbinding and influential horror movies ever made.

Join me as we continue our journey through the mind and body

as we discuss Henry George Cluso's Lady

Abolique and Roman Palansky's repulsion. Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your

host. If you're tuning in for the first time then welcome in this

podcast we explore and dissect the history

and the evolution of the horror genre by looking at particular sub-genres one series at a time.

This series we are on a journey through the mind and body in horror cinema and this is part four in which as the intro suggested it's a double bill of madness

Lady Abolique from 1955, and Repulsion from 1965.

If you haven't seen these movies, please give them a watch before you listen to our discussion,

particularly Lady Abolique. That is a film in which it would

really ruin it to hear the twist before seeing the film. So go away, give these incredible

films a watch, and then listen to our spoilerific discussions.

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