Product: Rosemary's Baby (El Bebe de Rosemary) [ NON-USA FORMAT, NTSC, Reg.4 Import - Latin America ] (1968)
Rating: 5.0
Good Taste Horror
A very good taste classic 60s horror film that doesn't rely on gore. Instead, it's the paranoia that is no longer scary. After watching it 20 times, the plot becomes predictable and the only remotely scary thing is the coven scene and at the end with a flash of the devil. Rosemary Woodhouse (a name ripped off by a long standing wannabe famous Church of Satan member) moves into an apartment with her husband. Her neighbors, played by Ruth Gordon who won an Oscar for this performance and her husband is Roman Castavet, a generational Satanist born in the 1800s. Rosemary gets pregnant and her husband joins the Satanist next door coven in exchange for fame on Broadway. This hardly raises an eybrow today, and the paranoia is no longer there. But it's still a classic horror film, only times have changed since 1968 to rely on gore and shocking visuals, not a plot. I even want to make an argument that movies are an obselete mode of thinking. At maybe 2 hours and 20 minutes long, it just isn't time consuming enough for the paranoid devil worship plot to get to the teen dabbler turned quasi born again Christian. Try some gory images of Satan eating the baby and killing people brutally, because the movie psychology just isn't there any more.