Product: Rosemary's Baby (El Bebe de Rosemary) [ NON-USA FORMAT, NTSC, Reg.4 Import - Latin America ] (1968)
Rating: 5.0
SHOCK-A-BYE-BABY....
Roman Polanskis'1968 shocker is as riveting today as it was on its' release. Mia Farrow is permanently etched in our conciousness as the hapless Rosemary Woodhouse who, with her unemployed actor husband Guy (John Cassavetes), moves into a huge New York apartment building where the first friend she makes jumps out of a window to her death. After the neighbors next door, the Castavets, insinuate themselves on the young couple with food and somewhat sinister hospitality, Rosemary has a vivid nightmare of being savaged by a demonic beast. She finds she's pregnant and Guys' career begins taking off. But her pregnancy is anything but routine. Cravings for raw meat and inescapable fears plague her and Guy is of no help. Minnie Castavet (Oscar winner Ruth Gordon) offers strange teas and herbal concoctions but Rosemary senses the worst---the Castavets are witches and are after her unborn baby. But the worst is yet to come. Farrows' performance is achingly real and you feel helplessly frightened for her as a young woman pregnant with her first child trying to get someone to believe her. That her own husband would barter his wife to the devil in exchange for a successful career is a shocking revelation. But the real revelation comes in the end when Rosemary comes face to face with her newborn baby. This is a haunting and memorable chiller made all the more unnerving by Farrow as Rosemary. A modern day classic.