A spoof of the atheistic movement of the time

Rating: 5/10 (10 January 1999)

I watched this movie for the first time yesterday, mostly to see Mia Farrow after she had left "Peyton Place". I found that the premise of the movie and the hidden messages within are very powerful, indeed.
I quickly saw that what has been called a "classic Horror movie" was really a Gothic spoof of the "GOD IS DEAD" movement that was in full force at the time of the writing. Rosemary even picks up a TIME magazine with the cover words, "IS GOD DEAD"?
In analyzing the scenes with the child, and listening to the liturgy of the satanic cult, it is clear that the message of the movie/book was: Life does not exist in a vacuum, you must choose to believe in good and evil. If you choose to believe in JUST evil, i.e., God is dead, then Rosemary's ultimate world is the world that you would live in. Dark, dead, without hope, and with a Satan-child to worship.
Roman Polanski did a terrific job with the direction of the movie, of course. Mia Farrow was the perfect waif-child to portray the progenitor of Satan's offspring. I did not care for the actor cast as her husband, he never quite settled into the part, but maybe his role was supposed to be ambiguous. The neighbors were funny, not chilling, as was the cult scene at the end of the movie.
All in all, I would give it a 5 out of 10 because it was a social message disguised as a horror movie....I have to wonder how many people actually realized the subliminal theme?