Product: Rosemary's Baby (El Bebe de Rosemary) [ NON-USA FORMAT, NTSC, Reg.4 Import - Latin America ] (1968)
Rating: 2.0
Chilling horror story
There is no doubt that Polanski is a brilliant film-maker: he is skilled at creating horror, particularly through suggestion (there is very little graphic horror here). "Rosemary's Baby" is suspenseful and scary throughout. Especially impressive is his ability to create unease and terror through some of the most ordinary, non-supernatural elements of the story, for instance, the isolation of a young woman from her peers.I must admit, however, that this was one of the most unpleasant and disturbing film experiences of my life. There was nothing entertaining here, only shocking and terrifying. For ultimately, Polanski's seminal horror film signals a marked departure away from the redemptive themes of earlier films of the genre; Polanksi's vision is Christless, redemptionless and despairing, the ultimate expression of the "death of God" era to which the film occasionally refers. "Rosemary's Baby" may be technically ingenious, but it it is finally bleak, hopeless and, as such, empty.