Sorry, I just didn't get it!!!

Rating: 5/10 (22 November 2018)

I had never watched Rosemary's Baby in in its entirety until yesterday. The times that I started watching it years ago I was so bored that didn't finish. It is so highly regarded as a great horror film that I gave it another chance. This time I watched the whole thing and still don't understand why it's such a classic? I just didn't feel any suspense,dread, horror at all!!! The most that I can say is that it is really weird. Mia Farrow plays the title character. She moves into a new apartment with her husband played by John Cassavetes. They meet the neighbors, which are a series of seemingly nice old people in the building. We then get a very weird scene of her being seemingly raped by a demon with her worshipful neighbors watching. She gets pregnant and begins to get very paranoid and feels that her baby is not of this world. Her husband tries to comfort her but something is off. Everything that happens leads up to Rosemary finding the neighbors worshiping satan and tell her to be a good mother to her child. All of the events leading up to this are presented in a slow, somewhat disturbing way, but I for one wasn't very involved. The film is just weird. I would regard this as a black comedy more than a horror film. It is not bad, the acting is good and it is certainly original, but I don't see why people regard it as such a classic.