Product: Rosemary's Baby (El Bebe de Rosemary) [ NON-USA FORMAT, NTSC, Reg.4 Import - Latin America ] (1968)
Rating: 5.0
A Great Achievement!
"Rosemary's Baby" is a classic horror story, well-acted by a team of top-flight actors and well-directed by Roman Polanski. A young Manhattan couple seem completely unlikely for what befalls them, but the husband (John Cassavetes) is an ambitious actor who may be willing to deal with the devil and evil forces to get ahead in the theater. His wife (Mia Farrow), wan and chalky-looking, is the innocent foil who becomes a vessel through which he can achieve success. The couple goes apartment hunting in the famous Dakota apartment building. The Gothic rooftops of the famous building help to build up a sense of dread, gloom and doom.Three great character actors--Ralph Bellamy, Sidney Blackmer, and Maurice Evans do yeoman work in the movie. Blackmer and the incomparable Ruth Gordon are the old couple next door, garishly dressed, wacky, crass. Who could ever believe that such a batty couple could be running a witches' coven in the next door apartment?The story sneaks up, creeps up on you subtly and with teasing deliberateness. It seems so ordinary and commonplace at first. What will Rosemary's actor husband do to get a juicy part--sell his soul and her body to get a juicy part?A suicide early in the movie makes Rosemary suspicious of her flamboyant and eccentric neighbors. They and their friends seem so removed from anything dangerous.This is a great, masterful movie that spawned a number of sequels. It has often been twinned with "The Exorcist."