A Horror Classic

Rating: 8/10 (31 October 2019)

Review of Rosemary's Baby
Polanski's 1968 Rosemary's Baby is what I class as an engaging, disturbing and highly intelligent psychological horror. The movie left me with a chill and a specific feeling of sympathy for Rosemary's character; the betrayals she endured, specifically from Guy, her husband, and others such as Dr Hill. The acting is truly inspiring for its age, and I think many actors and actresses can still find inspiration for it in the movie industry today. A particularly good example is through many of the characters' facial expressions within scenes of hinted importance. The supernatural narrative of the film was particularly psychologically thrilling and fear-inducing; Rosemary's dream of being raped by the devil (which turns out to be reality) along with the evidence she finds for the cult her neighbours are involved with. This, along with many other factors, makes Rosemary's Baby a suitable horror for any film lover of the horror genre, along with classing it as horror masterpiece of the 20th century, and Polanski for directing a work of cinema that still holds up today.