Product: Rosemary's Baby (El Bebe de Rosemary) [ NON-USA FORMAT, NTSC, Reg.4 Import - Latin America ] (1968)
Rating: 5.0
Childbirth is hell
Here is a movie that should never have translated well from the page to the big screen. Ira Levin's nasty thriller about a group of old people orchestrating the rebirth of the devil seemed too perfect in written form to ever be recreated in film.But with a clever cast of players who take creepiness to new heights, this classic horror flick will leave you uneasy long after all the credits have rolled.The success of the movie is that the producers never try to embellish on Levin's unnerving tale. The psychological tension and climbing horror is perfectly paced and by the midway point, the viewer is acutely uncomfortable. The horror mounts as this twisted band of retirees and businessmen gets closer and closer to their ambition: the reemergence of Satan through Mia Farrow's birth canal."Rosemary's Baby" will always sit high on my list of classic horror flicks. The 70's feel of it only enhances the crawling fright it evokes. Levin is a master story teller, and this tale will leave you with a gnawing distrust of babies, old people and New Yorkers.