The Most Pure of Evil Triumphs

Rating: 9/10 (19 October 2018)

Rosemary's Baby is a film that is not meant to be a terrifying movie per se, but when it comes to a film that puts you on edge, kills you with tension, and simply steals your human attention to the point where suspense is at an all time high, there are few movies that compare.
When watching this movie I was already put off during the opening credits. It lures you in with potential happiness and joy between our two leads but that is harshly and violently reversed with a simple yet effective tone shift. This movie doesn't screw around, when it decides to get dark, it embraces that darkness with absolute conviction.
Is Rosemary's Baby as horrific as people say? No, it's actually more.
Normally when a movie is created with so many spiritual themes and concepts being introduced it often fails to deliver with a creative and frightening end game. But when you see the ending of this movie you will suddenly be filled with a sense of dread that cannot be put into words. There are scenes that literally shock me into silence so that I can't find humor or any sign of light whatsoever. It's as if there is only evil within this movie which makes our connection to Rosemary that much more powerful. Throughout this entire movie I feel a sense of dread with the exception of maybe a few scenes in the beginning and that party scene, but even then I couldn't find myself happy, just holding in nervous laughter. With this movie, you're mood is just killed and you are punished for having any sort of hope. This makes the climax all the more effective: I thought I was prepared, but I wasn't.
My only nitpicks might be that some of the scenes are kinda dated with the movie makers not having complete knowledge of cigarettes and alcohol and how these just don't appear during pregnancies, ideally, but now that I think about it this might have been intentional as another way to show how something is wrong.
This is one of the most terrifying movies I have seen and an absolute must for he/she who wants to venture into the horror that is Rosemary's Baby. 9/10.