"He has his father's eyes."

Rating: 10/10 (10 October 2000)

ROSEMARY'S BABY has been with us for a very long time. But it remains to be so creepy and funny and satirical and sexy and very real and very 60's and just a load of fun even if it does keep you distressed throughout over poor, lovely Rosemary being taken control over outside forces.
I don't think Mia Farrow has done anything to surpass her performance here. Great, great heroine. And I love John Casavettes, he's a bit scary himself. But the scene-stealers are, of course, Ruth Gordon and Sydney Blackmer as the eccentric neighbors. When you first see them walking up the street with their tacky, colorful get-up you never stop grinning. Of course, all the old people are devilishly odd and creepy. You can never trust someone who smiles for 24 hours. "Witches. All of them!"
Roman Polanski is a great director and his genius use of narrative really fuels the film. It opens up like a Doris Day-Rock Hudson comedy, and it all corrodes from there. "Are you trying to make me be his mother?" "Aren't you his mother, Rosemary?"
CAUTION: No first-time expecting mothers should watch this movie until the baby is born. And when that does happen... check its eyes!!!