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Release Date:
3 October 1965 (USA)
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Tagline:
From the Award-Winning "Knife In the Water" more
Plot:
Left alone when her sister goes on vacation, a sexually repressed young beauty goes insane with surreal fantasies of seduction and rape. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.
Another 2 wins
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1 nomination
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(54 articles)
Interview: Director Ti West on ‘The House of the Devil’ at Chicago International Film Festival
(From HollywoodChicago.com. 15 October 2009, 12:46 PM, PDT)
This Is Not a Link Round Up
(From FilmExperience. 5 October 2009, 8:09 PM, PDT)
(From HollywoodChicago.com. 15 October 2009, 12:46 PM, PDT)
This Is Not a Link Round Up
(From FilmExperience. 5 October 2009, 8:09 PM, PDT)
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The best film I've seen in a long time
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Catherine Deneuve | ... | Carole |
 | Ian Hendry | ... | Michael |
| John Fraser | ... | Colin |
| Yvonne Furneaux | ... | Helen |
| Patrick Wymark | ... | Landlord |
| Renee Houston | ... | Miss Balch |
| Valerie Taylor | ... | Madame Denise |
| James Villiers | ... | John |
| Helen Fraser | ... | Bridget |
| Hugh Futcher | ... | Reggie |
| Monica Merlin | ... | Mrs. Rendlesham |
| Imogen Graham | ... | Manicurist |
| Mike Pratt | ... | Workman |
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105 min
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1.66 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Singapore:PG |
Finland:(Banned) (1965) (uncut) |
Finland:K-16 (1993) (uncut) |
Finland:K-18 (1965) (cut) |
UK:15 (2004) |
Hungary:16 |
Iceland:16 |
UK:15 (theatrical re-release) |
South Korea:18 |
Portugal:M/16 |
Australia:M |
Norway:16 (original rating) |
Norway:18 (video rating) |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 (video rating) (1984) |
UK:X (original rating) |
USA:Unrated
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Roman Polanski's first English-language film.
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Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the scene right before the boyfriend is murdered, the old woman's dog can be seen panting, with its tongue hanging out - yet we hear barking.
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Quotes:
Carole Ledoux:
I must get this crack mended.
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Featured in Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)
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This film, the first Polanski made in English, works so well, and for so many different reasons, that I felt like I had to watch it again as soon as it ended.
From the first moments of the movie, Polanski sets up the key conflict, cutting between shots of Catherine Denuve's gorgeous face and of the things she is seeing, all of which are almost frighteningly ugly by comparison. After fifteen minutes of this, it becomes clear why Denuve's Carol is unable to cope with anything in the world around her, and why she is so dependent on her sister and her attractive female co-worker, who provide the film's only beauty other than Denuve. When her sister leaves her alone, her surroundings decay further into ugliness, sending her deeper into her madness. I loved the way that despite Carol's growing insanity, Polanski keeps going back to closeups of her face, which remains beautiful. So beautiful, in fact, that no one can seem to notice that she is clearly very deranged.
The only question the film left me with is this: How could Carol possibly survived for an entire lifetime up till the point where the film began?