Dated, but of historical curiosity

Rating: 6/10 (3 June 2008)

I saw this movie a few years back and I just want to note something that I found intriguing about it. Before that, however, I'll just provide a brief synopsis of the plot: a newly married couple move into a town-house & prepare for the birth of their new child. An element of surreality does enter into the equation & I suppose part of of hook of the movie is wondering whether the wife's paranoia about her unborn child's nature is well founded or hysterical. In the movie, there are hints that her circumstances are a vast conspiracy-involving her husband, neighbours and...Satan!
One thing that this movie did clear up, was the question of what inspired the "Tupperware witches" sketches in the Australian sketch comedy show "Fast Forward". I think that this movie may have been the source of these sketches!
Interestingly, an SBS TV (Australia) documentary in September 07 entitled "The history of the Devil" mentioned this movie too, along with another movie that I've reviewed here, The Exorcist. I'll mention those points below, but first a warning...the comments below are spoilers, to a lesser or greater extent. Maybe read the stuff below after you've watched the movie.
Potential spoilers: In the documentary above, The Exorcist is described as a Christian fightback to this movie, in that in Rosemary's Baby, the Devil triumphs. The Exorcist sees Good triumphing over Evil.
Rosemary's Baby is described as a product of the counter-cultural movement during the Vietnam War in the 1960's, a time when The Establishment (Government, Capitalism and Religion) were viewed with suspicion and hostility. During this time, Satanism was seen by some as an antidote to The Establishment.
Anyway, I wasn't overly impressed with this movie. It's OK. what I did find intriguing was the implication that God did a poor job designing humans. In the metaphysical conflict between Good and Evil, God seems to have made a monumental mistake in allowing a woman's maternal instinct to over-ride eternal consequences.