Product: Rosemary's Baby (El Bebe de Rosemary) [ NON-USA FORMAT, NTSC, Reg.4 Import - Latin America ] (1968)
Rating: 5.0
Proved Polanski's genius
It's really hard to make a good horror film--as the many inferior examples prove (Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3, Friday the Thirteenth 24!) Along with "Chinatown," this movie proved that Roman Polanski was more than a maker of obscure Polish art films. (It's sad that he hasn't been able to live up to his earlier potential.) Also, Mia Farrow's never been better, and Ruth Gordon became a late-blooming star with this film--even though Polanski had to battle against her scenery-chewing. The movie is a model in pacing; the paranoia and eventual horror creep up on you slowly. The overlooked soundtrack and score are also key players in creating the mood of fear and dread. And all this with out head-swiveling special effects, buckets of gore... or chainsaws. This is the movie all young directors should watch and emulate before going off to make the next cheesey horror series. If they follow Polanski's model, they might actually scare us.