Able to Be Truly Reviewed for Its First Year...

Rating: 10/10 (8 November 2019)

This movie is so good, so believable, and so natural that Polanski was actually BLAMED for by the tabloids my mother read religiously (sorry) for the Manson murders!! "Well, what can you expect after making that movie? He glorified Satan and said God was dead.". This ignores the fact that he - Polanski - merely made use of an early 60s TIME magazine cover article that in fact read "IS GOD DEAD" about declining American church attendance. And before Manson, America blamed Polanski for Mia Darrow's new Auschwitz hairdo, which was really just a hip European female cut. So Rosemary's Baby couldn't buy an impartial review except in that too-brief span anchored between THE HAIRCUT and THE MURDERS. And this doesn't even mention Polanski and the Holocaust and the fact that he really wanted Tuesday Weld in the lead because Rosemary-in-the-novel was described as a healthy milk-fed all-American blonde beauty.
Well, now let's hope the dust has settled enough to call this movie what it is: one of the best horror movies of the 20th century, a regular Val Lewton
A-list big budget movie, if Lewton had ever been given A-list actors and writers and time AND an A-list budget. Of course, A-list money, talent, and time wouldn't have meant squat without Roman Polanski at the helm. Private life aside,he will always be one of the top-five directors in history. After all, he re-invented and improved film noir. Who among us can claim the reclamation of TWO genres, much less
kmone?