Slow burner but time passes by quickly

Rating: 8/10 (15 August 2015)

I must have been a teenager when I saw this one for the first time. I remember it made quite an impression on me. Now 20 years later it still manages to do so. The movie takes a long time to build-up. It isn't gruesome in your face horror, much more psychological. The devil scene (obviously the most horror of the whole movie) I think is very well done, unsettling just like Rosemary (wonderfully portrayed by Mia Farrow) being put on drugs and slowly feeling how she is alone in her fight against those witches or satanists whatever you want to call them. Despite its slow pace the movie never bores me as I think every scene has its importance. There really isn't a scene thrown in to entertain or to regain the focus of people who might been dozing of. What I also like about these older movies is looking at it in its time period. What did they have back than what they don't have now any more and vice versa. It's a nice trip back into the time, a piece of history. Granted the ending was a bit silly with the photographing Asian guy (a bit stereotypical) but that the mystery remains of what the baby looks like is certainly a good thing.