Product: Rosemary's Baby (El Bebe de Rosemary) [ NON-USA FORMAT, NTSC, Reg.4 Import - Latin America ] (1968)
Rating: 1.0
Will she drink the evil potion? Will she wear the evil necklace? Will this movie be the biggest waste of your life? YES!
Some people may be led astray by the multitude of glowing reviews of this movie on amazon and nearly every other review medium ever. It enjoys classic status for some reason that I cannot fathom, because I am of the opinion that this movie might be the worst horror movie I have ever seen. The movie begins with a woman and her husband moving into a new apartment in the swanky (but purportedly cursed) part of town. They are immediately welcomed by their neighbors who happen to be the sweetest little geriatric satanists you ever did see, and begin having dinner with them every night. During one of their dinners, Rosemary is drugged by her husband and the satanists and raped by her husband while she dreams of having sex with JFK and the devil (who looks kind of like a sasquatch) intermittently. But don't get your hopes up, because the movie doesn't get any scarier or intellectually involving from there. It drags along for something around two hours while Rosemary debates over drinking daily concoctions provided for her by the satanists (hmmm... tough call), wearing the charm they've given her (which at this point, she's discovered to be evil, but it somehow remains a tough decision about what to do with it other than wear it and be afflicted by its curse), and just plain moping around while she carries the devil's sasquatch baby.The movie picks up for a brief 30 seconds when Rosemary finds out that her closet opens a secret passage into the Satanists' lair, where the whole crew of octogenarian devil-worshipers halfheartedly mumble "hail satan" and Rosemary gets to see her baby... a quick 2 second shot of the eyes of what is obviously an adult wearing red contacts and fur.Does this sound like the kind of movie for you? If so, you might want to get your head checked.