Rosemary\u2019s Baby<\/em><\/a> is a great horror movie \u2013 it\u2019s simply a great film (my favorite from Polanski). The confusion comes from its subject matter, but to reveal that would take away from your experience of watching and understanding it. It\u2019s a very dark film whose scariness doesn\u2019t come from an invincible axe murderer, but from something within one\u2019s self. The film is darkest at moments you\u2019ll least expect and its ending is shockingly haunting.<\/p>\nRosemary and Guy Woodhouse move into an apartment in a building with a bad reputation. They discover that their neighbors are a very friendly elderly couple named Roman and Minnie Castevet, and Guy begins to spend a lot of time with them. Then, strange things begin to happen, starting when a woman Rosemary meets in the washroom dies a mysterious death. Rosemary then has strange dreams and hears strange noises. Guy becomes remote and distant. Then Rosemary falls pregnant and begins to suspect that her neighbors have special plans for her child.<\/p>\n
Mia Farrow\u2019s performance is first class as Rosemary: the housewife, the paranoid, and the insane. Rosemary is so incredibly detailed and natural. Farrow didn\u2019t get cast for her role because of her vocal chords. She is in the movie because of her versatility and her ability to act.<\/p>\n
Polanski reinvented the horror \u201cB-Movie\u201d into something part drama, part thriller, and part, well, horror. Unlike the typical slasher, sci-fi, monster kind of horror film, Rosemary\u2019s Baby is astonishingly slow paced and meditative. Here is probably where the film will lose most of its audience, which is a shame because the final turning point of the film is brilliant.<\/p>\n
If you go into Rosemary\u2019s Baby looking for quick jolts or badass super villains, you\u2019ll be very let down. However, if you are looking for a film that will stay with you because of its beautiful imagery and dark tones, see it and pray for Rosemary\u2019s baby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Reviewed by Kevin Tran. Viewed on DVD. I don\u2019t believe Roman Polanski\u2019s Rosemary\u2019s Baby is a great horror movie \u2013 it\u2019s simply a great film (my favorite from Polanski). The confusion comes from its subject matter, but to reveal that would take away from your experience of watching and understanding it. It\u2019s a very dark […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvd","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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