Still Worth A Look

Rating: 7/10 (30 October 2008)

The story told in this shocker is so well-known that I'll just get straight to the editorializing.
ROSEMARY'S BABY is a little too long; otherwise this effective paranoia piece plays well even decades later. Polanski again does for apartment houses what Michael Crichton would later do for theme parks. The neighbors are creepy and nightmarish even before we find out why they are being so "helpful" to Rosemary and concerned about the baby. By the way, would YOU rent an apartment being offered by Elisha Cook Jr.? The acting is fine throughout, with Ruth Gordon being especially memorable. The ending leaves a thing or two to the imagination and is more effective for it.
One major complaint: a number of unattractive characters appear naked, but Playmate of 1968 Angela Dorian doesn't. Where is the justice???