Product: Rosemary's Baby (El Bebe de Rosemary) [ NON-USA FORMAT, NTSC, Reg.4 Import - Latin America ] (1968)
Rating: 2.0
The depiction of main characters ruined this
This indeed is a psychological thriller rather than a horror film, yet the book's main technique of presentation, which made it effective, is greatly reduced. The book much integrated ordinary happenings - Guy was humorous and charming, and Rosemary a creative, sociable, happy bride. (Referencing another reviewer's comments: the book has not the slightest overtones of Rosemary's worrying about her pregnancy because of guilt about sex, where Mia's stone-faced performance could give one that idea.)In the film, Guy seems self-centred, conceited and vaguely sinister, and Rosemary in a fog!Gone is the book's Rosemary - who apparently is gifted in decorating, gourmet cooking, enjoys sculpture classes and has many friends with whom she has discussions on such matters as "Summerhill" at Sardi's East. Mia's Rosemary seems neither happy nor quite bright! Right from the early scene when, with the warmth of one on verge of coma, she tells Guy, "Let's make love," the impression is of one devoid of emotion. (It seemed just one of several times that the director needed an excuse to show Mia naked.)The joyous pregnant woman who eerily discovers that she is carrying Satan's child was interesting in the book. The film's Rosemary seems so remote and confused right from the beginning that one is tempted to assume, with Dr Hill, that she is a pathological case.