Product: Rosemary's Baby (El Bebe de Rosemary) [ NON-USA FORMAT, NTSC, Reg.4 Import - Latin America ] (1968)
Rating: 5.0
One of The Most Entertaining (and Well Made) Horror Films I've Seen.
So much has been said about Rosemary's Baby. For me this is a film with so much style and substance, I always enjoy viewing it. I just want to mention a few standout elements that I am bewitched by.Ruth Gordon. I can't praise this performance enough. The Oscar was well deserved. She is a brash little gargoyle as Minnie Castevet. She steals scenes with such ease. Watch her eating a slice of cake when Guy and Rosemary are over for dinner. It is absolutely revolting and hilarious at once. Amazing.The score is so unusual, and it works. And Polanski knew when not to use it. Sometimes silence just adds so much to the creepiness factor.The cinematography and direction are fun and witty. You will find yourself craning your neck to see a character who has been carefully placed just out of the shot. There are many ingenius touches peppered throught this movie. I won't bother listing them all. Suffice to say that this is a fun, fascinating film that happens to deal with the occult. Back then they knew that the less you reveal, the more you leave to the audience's imagination.