A Great Film

Rating: 9/10 (5 January 2006)

I read the book by Ira Levin before I saw the movie, and then, when I watched it, the film visuals almost perfectly matched the ones I had pictured in my mind, so I was consistently given chills down my spine. And it seems like barely any dialogue or plot points were cut out (it'd be almost impossible to cut out any of the plot because Levin wrote such a tightly plotted and suspenseful book.) Polanski's direction is great, and Mia Farrow made a perfect Rosemary. The final scene is one of my favorites ever, when she's sneaking to the Castavet's apartment to get back her baby with the knife, and all the old satanists are standing around, and she sees the baby's amber eyes, and screams, "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HIS EYES?!?" *shiver*. Beautiful.