Psychological Horror Thriller From the 1960s

Rating: 6/10 (9 December 2014)

Perhaps I have been around for too many years since Rosemary's Baby was a new hit film and so all of the tropes in it which were perhaps exciting and new for audiences when the film first premiered struck me as cliché and not all that interesting and/or innovative. The film was definitely not a bad one but I was underwhelmed given it's significance as a touchstone in the popular culture. Perhaps the most interesting part of the film for me was the way in which it dealt with the medical and psychiatric coercion of women and how this serves to oppress them and hurt their best interests. I do think that the decision of the director never to show the baby on camera was the correct one. The film is not so much about monsters lurking in the world as it is about the monsters women deal with in familial and medical contexts.