A top 25 classic

Rating: 9/10 (16 October 2013)

If you look up any "Top 25 Horror Movies of All Time" lists, you are guaranteed to find 'Rosemary's Baby' on every single one of them. This 1968 classic takes on a subject that is already terrifying to most of us and makes it just that much worse. Rosemary is expecting and as her due date approaches, she knows that something is just not quite right. Roman Polanski brought a whole new kind of horror to the table that just wasn't that accessible at the time. Visionaries like Alfred Hitchcock, George A. Romero, and Polanski showed us that horror movies didn't need to just be about Frankenstein and Dracula. These men pulled horror out of the gutter and off the tail end of a joke and sparked a revolution that brought a legitimacy to the genre. Mia Farrow is perfect in this role. Her helplessness and innocence built up the suspense throughout the whole film until it was boiling over by the climax. Polanski gives us very good insight into the struggle of women's rights through this film as well. Farrow's character isn't able to think for herself. Much like Romero's main protagonist in 'Night of the Living Dead' (also made in the same year), both characters show how helpless women were made to feel back then and the struggle they had in just being able to voice their own opinion about something. If this film was made today, or remade, the inner struggle that Rosemary goes through wouldn't have the same impact as equality has strengthened the female vigor. However, if anyone could step into the shoes of Mia Farrow, it would be Gwyneth Paltrow. I do believe that she is this generations Farrow. It's ironic that Paltrow also starred in a Thriller in 1998 called 'Hush' in which she is pregnant and struggles with forces beyond her control. Paltrow was also born in 1971, so maybe she in fact Rosemary's baby. I loved this classic horror. I can't believe it took me this long to watch it. 9 out of 10.