Frightening!

Rating: Null/10 (27 September 1999)

I read the book for the first time when I was fifteen. And then I waited about ten years until the film was shown on TV so I could see it at last. And it's great! One of the few movies that is as good as the book! You're always wondering, if she's right when she's worrying about her husband, her neighbours and her doctor or if she's just stressed because of her pregnancy. The actors are very good although I think that Rosemary's husband should seem more harmless than Cassavetes is (he's always a little bit too demonic).
And the end of the film is better than the book: you never see the child, you only see how Farrow nearly loses her mind when she sees the baby for the first time. In the book the child looks like a devil en miniature: red hair, long fingernails and little horns. I always wondered how such a goat-looking-baby should be raised up without the whole world watching it! Polanski made it better than the author.
AND ONE LAST WARNING: Never read the Levin-Sequel "Rosemary's Son"! It's the worst sequel with the most idiotic end I've ever read!