Take a good hard look

Rating: Null/10 (3 March 1999)

OK, short and sweet, SCREAM is a great film, but it's now created a genre whereby the ironic awareness of, and emotional distance from, the scary stuff is heightened (along with the gore and cheap shocks), and the plot, character, and atmosphere is lessened. ROSEMARY'S BABY maintains a growing paranoid creepiness that builds to a horrifying climax, with no tongue-in-cheek hipness, MTV soundtrack, or digital effects. You never even has to show you the devil baby, just Mia Farrow's reaction. Gee, what was Polanski thinking? Please-more films like this, less like I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU BLAH BLAH BLAH.