I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line.

The film's themes situations visual motifs and effects clearly reflect the influence of early surrealist cinema as well as horror movies of the 1950s – particularly Luis Buñuel's Un chien Andalou Jean Cocteau's The Blood of a Poet Henri-Georges Clouzot's Diabolique and Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. 1970s
Macbeth (1971)
Polanski abandoned his project and did not resume working until the production of a film version of Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth.

Polanski's first feature-length film Knife in the Water (1962) made in Poland was nominated for a United States Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film but was beaten by Federico Fellini's 8½. The film won three Academy Awards including Best Director along with numerous international awards. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards was a critical and box-office success.