Product: Rosemary's Baby (El Bebe de Rosemary) [ NON-USA FORMAT, NTSC, Reg.4 Import - Latin America ] (1968)
Rating: 4.0
If You Don't Like It, Give It Time.
I'm finding more and more in life that we have to learn to appreciate the better material in life. Even some of the best records I have, I did not really like at first. BUT, after I gave them some time, I realized just how great they were. At first, I thought this was a decent movie at best. BUT, after I gave it a 2nd chance, I realized that it is not only a really great movie, but one that REALLY DEFINES horror. A recent movie of "Dracula" was SO BAD. It relied on ridiculous overblown effects; everything was so loud it was ridiculous; the effects were way too garrish and overdone. It was flat out laughable! If people can call this laughable 'Dracula' great horror, they should think about what the definition of horror is. In some ways, 'Rosemary's Baby' movie really defines horror. It starts normal enough. Thus, it is plausible. Rosemary and her husband meet some 'seemingly nice' people in their new home. But, piece by piece, we start realizing that something just isn't right to say the least. First the clues may seem minute and trivial; but then, they start getting bigger and more obvious. King Diamond writes horror records. And he DOES NOT try to keep hitting you with everything every second. King Diamond realizes the NEED FOR A GRADUAL BUILDING FOR THE TERROR TO BE EFFECTIVE! Blackmer and Gordson are wonderful (that may be an understatement) in their seemingly nice roles, but who carry a BIG secret. Maurice Evans is wonderful as the concerned friend of Rosemary who pays the price for his benevolence. Bellamy is memorable as a shrewd associate of Blackmer and Gordon. I could go on and on about how great this movie is, but there's no need for that. But I will say that this movie is PROOF that a 'so called' horror movie with loudness, effects, and excess blood and violence is a DISGRACE to the category of horror. TRUE horror exists in a plausible situation. The easier it is to believe a situation, the more frightening it is! And terror is not from monsters! Rather it comes from realizing that we were deceived or betrayed by people close to us who we trusted. And if we are upset when we realize what Blackmer and Gordon were up to, well, we should be. That's what horror is! Realizing the niceness of people we loved had a VERY ULTERIOR motive to say the least. These days, hollywood just seems to make 'heroes' and 'bad guys' at a DISNEY level. Wake up Hollywood! Maybe we should be sad when we discover who the villain or villains are! Villains are not someone set aside to be booed! Villains are everyday people who choose to betray us for one reason or another! Perhaps Hollywood will stop with the overdone garrish, and laughable so called horror, (not to mention 2d heroes and villains) and realize what the true meaning of horror is.