A masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (18 December 2008)

I have watched this film so many times and never get tired of it. It is a perfectly executed horror film where the best material met the best director. Polanski can suggest menace with just an open doorway and a cloud of cigar smoke. He lets the audience imagine, which is what computerised terrors never do. Mia Farrow was the epitome of vulnerable beauty. Ruth Gorden is malevolent and funny, grotesque but believable , like some awful clucking hen that feeds on human flesh. Of course Polanski was handed a brilliant idea, but he tells the story with such craftsmanship. The supernatural enfolds within an everyday domestic setting but still remains credible. Brilliant. If you have never seen this movie you are in for a treat. As time goes by and we see so many poor horror films, this movie just gets better and better.