Product: Rosemary's Baby (El Bebe de Rosemary) [ NON-USA FORMAT, NTSC, Reg.4 Import - Latin America ] (1968)
Rating: 4.0
Say a prayer for Rosemary
This film doesn't really seem to fit in one genre. Some call it a suspense film, others say it's horror. No doubt,this film is in a class of it's own, as is the film's director.In this movie, a young couple by the name of Rosemary and Guy move into an apartment in New York. Rosemary is a housewife, Guy is an aspiring actor. The apartment they move into was owned by a woman who died in mysterious circumstances, the next door neighbours are an elderly couple named Roman and Minnie.When the young woman living with them dies from an apparent suicide, Rosemary reaches out to them, and they accpet her friendship with a lot more than just open arms.Rosemary falls pregnant, but instead of being a joyous occasion, bizarre and deadly events begin to happen all around Rosemary. And it all seems to revolve around her unborn child, she soon becomes convinced that the couple next door belong to a coven and that they want her baby for their own evil purposes. But with no friends, and nobody to believe her Rosemary begins to fight against the conspiracy, believing that her own husband is involved too.This has all of the trademark Polanski things: an apartment, a main character whose sanity and grip on reality you come to question, claustrophobic settings.This was the film that made Mia Farrow a bona fide star, eclipsing that of her then husband Frank Sinatra. It also made Roman Polanski a household name in America.This film is more a suspense than a horror film, but nevertheless it is superb in every way.