Product: Rosemary's Baby (El Bebe de Rosemary) [ NON-USA FORMAT, NTSC, Reg.4 Import - Latin America ] (1968)
Rating: 5.0
All horror movies should be this good...
The first thing that struck me about this movie was its level of class: high. Roman Polanski took a group of veteran actors such as Sidney Blackmer, Ruth Gordon, Hope Summers, Patsy Kelly, Maurice Evans, and Ralph Bellamy, and mixed them with the relative newcomers, Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes and made a fantastic movie out of Ira Levin's book.The impressive thing about this film is that the whole mood of each scene is somewhat sinister and eerie, even in the parts where it is not supposed to be that way. Every scene is ominous and foreboding. The backdrop for the movie, an apartment house in New York City is perfect for the subject matter.Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse are new tenants in the Bramford Apartments when an elderly couple, Minnie and Roman Castevet take an unusual interest in them after a boarder of theirs plunges to her death on the sidewalk below. The Castevets seem rather eccentric, albeit harmless, but as the story unfolds you begin to see that everything is not what it appears to be. Something terrifying is brewing around them that explodes in the last minutes af the film. I have seen "The Exorcist" and I can promise you that it is NOTHING compared to this movie.There is a scene of about five minutes in length which is the scariest I have ever seen in a film. I won't give it away, but trust me, you will know right away which one it is. That this movie still retains its popularity after thirty-something years is a testament to the brilliant plot and the superb performance of all the actors.So good was Ruth Gordon in her part as Mrs. Castevet, that she won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in this film. Once you see it you will realize that you have never up to this point seen anything quite like it and probably never will again. Yes, FIVE big, scary stars!!