Product: Rosemary's Baby (El Bebe de Rosemary) [ NON-USA FORMAT, NTSC, Reg.4 Import - Latin America ] (1968)
Rating: 4.0
MAMMA MIA
If ROSEMARY'S BABY was released as it is today, it might not have been very successful. Atypical in its "horror," the movie doesn't really have any violence or gore, and it's pacing is meticulously slow. But director Roman Polanski in 1969 gave us one of the first films about Satanic birth, and even now it's chilling in its simplicity.Mia Farrow is perfect as Rosemary, a charming young wife to wannabe famous actor John Cassavetes. They chance onto a beautiful apartment and become friends with its elderly inhabitants, including the Oscar winning performance of Ruth Gordon as Ms. Chavenet, a garrulous, nosy, blowsy lady married to a charming Sidney Blackmer. No sooner do they move into the place then Cassavetes gets a plum role in a play---the chosen actor hasa mysteriously gone blind. The dark hues of this Ira Levin story soon take shape and Mia dreams one night she is raped by a demon. When she becomes pregnant, she goes under the care of kindly Ralph Bellamy, a doctor recommended by her new friends. From there, the story spirals into a spinetingling ending.I didn't care much for this film when I first saw it, but 30 some years later, I've come to appreciate its power.