Pure period style suspense fun

Rating: Null/10 (21 March 2006)

"Rosemary's Baby" (1968): Even the very young & cute Mia Farrow could barely carry off that "Twiggy" look of 1965-68, and yes, there are other "period" clues in this film: the camera work has that "trippiness" when she's (possibly) in another consciousness, the music has a druggy sound to it at times, the "high fashion" was often at a low point...but this film is STILL a great exercise in PARANOIA. WHO is imagining WHAT? WHY is she suspecting THAT? Is Rosemary nuts? If not, are THEY in on it? John Cassevettes plays her patient husband, the crazy Ruth Gordon who won the Oscar for her role, as one of their neighbors, many character actors you'll recognize...and they all add up to an increasingly tense, psychological-horror film that shook up EVERYONE in 1968. Pure period style fun.