Product: Rosemary's Baby (El Bebe de Rosemary) [ NON-USA FORMAT, NTSC, Reg.4 Import - Latin America ] (1968)
Rating: 4.0
A Worthy Predecessor To Regan And Damien
Before The Scary Omen Series Or Exorcist Movies,Ira Levin Wrote And Roman Polanski Directed Rosemary's Baby,A Movie That Shocks And Delightedly Entertains.Guy And Rosemary Woodhouse Move Into A Huge Apartment,And Instantly Like Every One In It,Even Tho The Majority Is Decidedly Weird AND Cooky.After The Death Of Another Tenant To A Questionable Suicide,The Woodhouses' Neighbors Roman And Minnie Castavet "Adopt" Guy And Rosemary And Start Pushing Herbs And Drinks On Rosemary.At Last She Becomes Pregant With The Baby She And Guy Were Hoping For. But Little By Little She Becomes Convinced The Castavet's Are Going To Take Her Baby To Use In A Satanic Ritual.Could The Goofy Castavets And Her Other Neighbors Really Be Doing This? Or Is It Rosemary's Vivid Imagination? (She Even Thinks The Child Was Concieved As The Result Of A Rape By An Inhuman Beast).As Her Preganncy Progresses Rosemary Becomes Sicker,Thinner,Paler,And More And More Unstable.Is She Losing Her Sanity Or Could It Be She Is Realizing A Horrible Truth?The Movie Being Filmed In The Late Sixties There Is A Quick Shot (In The Special Features) Of Sharon Tate Before Her Slaying By Charles Manson,And Mia Farrow Is Painting Her Dressing Room Door With A "Flower Power" Motiff.And The Movie Is Filmed In The Apartments John Lennon Was Living In At The Time Of His Slaying.Producer Bob Evans And Director Polanski Also Tell You In The Special Features How The Movie Was Made.Mia Farrow As Rosemary Is Joined By John Cassavettes,Maurice Evans (Planet Of The Ape's Dr Zaius And Samantha's Recurring Father Maurice On Bewitched),Sydney Blackmer,Elija Cook,Ralph Bellamy,And Ruth Gordon In An Oscar Performance As The Nosey Mrs. Castavet.Oh And The "Voice" Of Tony Curtis In A cameo.You Won't See Any Ghost Or Monsters But The Scene Where Rosemary Finally Gets To See The Fate Of Her Baby Will Have You Turning On Every Light In The House.There Are Also No Special Effects Or "Mirror Tricks",But The Movie Is Wonderfully Done And Definately Spooky.I Was Literally Shaking Watching The Final Scene.A Must See!