Great occult thriller!

Rating: Null/10 (14 April 2002)

"Rosemary´s Baby" is a highly scary film that deals with the elements of paranoia and occultism perfectly! It is far better than the overrated "The Exorcist", because the dark menace of the omnipresent Satanism is much better developed and more frightening. There´s no gore or explicit violence, but the suspense is murderous! One of those films that hold you in its grip from the first to the very last minute! I really enjoyed the great performances of actors like John Cassavetes, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy or Ruth Gordon, but outstanding Mia Farrow has the role of her life time with playing the innocent victim! Sometimes her part reminded me on the one of Catherine Deneuve´s in Roman Polanski´s "Repulsion", because both women suffer from urban fear, neurosis and an invisible danger. The scene when Rosemary´s raped by the devil is a classic! A film a could watch again and again!