Zingaling, as a horror fan, I can't believe you haven't seen this.

Probably one of the best horror films. Polanski really is at his best here. Great imagery, soundtrack, and acting, as well as genuinely horrific. Nearly perfect.

I agree

I did technically see it, but I was like 7. I don't remember it.

You know a horror film is doing something right when one of the actors win an Academy Award. Very chilling film from Polanski at his best.

B


This is a much better movie than the downright laughable The Exorcist and if Polanski has trimmed the movie a bit, my grade would have been even higher. I just find the first 90 minutes or so to drag quite a bit without any significant development. It is fairly obvious after about 20 minutes that something wrong is going on, but apparently the female protagonist is so outworldly stupid and naive that it takes her months to realize that. That bothered me as well, a lot.

Other than that, it was a fine horror movie that is actually hard to classify as horror because there are really very few "real" horror elements in it. It were the final 20 minutes that made the movie for me. This is when the pace kicks in, the suspense is raised to a much greater level and the overall impact of the movie works in full force. It ic certainly carried by Mia Farrow whose performance is Oscar-worthy. Too bad she didn't even get a nom. She was certainly better than the good, but not outstanding Ruth Gordon.

The very ending was perfectly creepy and did not give in to any clichés of the genre. I also liked the main musical theme of the movie. Quite catchy.

Leceter is right, It is slow, but gripping.

8/10 (B+)
Not great and a bit overrated but I still enjoyed it!

Everything you said above would've been correct back in the 70's, but come on.. You REALLY think this movie holds up well in 2006?? Really??? Genuinely horrific??? Explain what in this movie was genuiniely horrific???

BKB, Rosemary's Baby is disturbing and effective today because it is unlike the thousands of slasher movies unleashed on us every second.

Your wrong.. Explain to me what was so disturbing about it??? What was so disturbing about this movie??? What?? Seeing Mia Farrow down powdery milk shakes concocted by her upstairs neighbor??? And to top it off: You never saw what was in the crib toward the end.. They never showed 1 thing!!! It was implied and it sucked for a movie that is so hailed as a Classic.. I don't get what was so disturbing about this movie..

Hello? Having your husband sell himself to the devil? Having the devil's child? Losing your baby.... then falling in love with it despite the fact that it is Satan's offspring? Not horrific?

Oh, right. I'm wrong. I should go rent AvP or I Really Do Still Know What You Might Have Done Last Summer to "get learned" about true horror.

i enjoy some good horror classics, but this one has to be one of the most overrated (#1 beeing Psycho)

it was slow and boring as hell!.....

C

A

A prime example of a slow burn horror film. It's very similar to what J-Horror does today - slow build up with a huge climax. Polanski's direction is artistic, subtle, and exquisite. A truly unsettling work with some outstanding acting.

Precisely. The artistic merits of this film make it classic alone, never mind the performances and some of the most beautiful, unsettling music ever put on screen.

The most overrated film ever IMO.Its boring,to long and laughable,i almost turned the film off but didnt because i had hope that it would get atleast a bit better,well it didnt.This is truly one of the worst films i have ever seen.

I think it's one of the best horror films...the buildup is slow yes, but I didn't find that to be a flaw as I found it completely absorbing on every level. The devil-rape scene is one of horror's creepiest moments, and the phone booth scene + the escape to the regular doctor are very tense. The acting is terrific, some of the best not only in horror film history but also film history. Mia Farrow carries the film on her shoulders for its entire running length, and keeps the viewer on her side the whole way through yet in the back of our minds we're still questioning if she really is just crazy. And of course there's the last 10 minutes which just put the cherry on top of the ultimate horror sundae. grade - A

Saw it on at a repertoire showing tonight...confirms itself as one of my all-time favorites. Probably in my top ten, actually. I love how all of the actors, while all giving outstanding performances, have completely different ideas about what the movie is supposed to be. Farrow takes this shit mad seriously, Cassavettes patronizes with twisted, chauvinistic countenance and often seems to laugh of the film as mostly just that, a laugh, and Gordon acts as a more obvious comic relief, but not without a slightly conflicted hesitance. Their respective approaches to the film really round the film to one of the darkest dark comedies, one of the most horrific horror films, and just a constantly entertaining, but never simple work that more than earns its reputation. And The Dakota happens to be one of my favorite buildings in NYC, so that's a plus.

So yeah, Polanski, the cast, the writing, the music, everything is perfect here.

Just another brief lol: does anyone else find it funny that the haircut used to portray Farrow as sickly and grotesque about half way through the film is now revered as perhaps the most iconic fashionable hairdo ever in film? lolol

In total agreement, particulary with the bolded part. I think the mix of different acting styles does make the movie even more schizophrenic, and therefore more disturbing.

Also one of my favorite films, depite seeing it only one time I think..

This is some creepy shit.

Apart from being impossibly nerve-wracking and suspenseful, making it totally unsettling and terrifying, it's deliriously off-kilter throughout, as if it can't take itself seriously. Like snack said, it's the darkest of dark comedies - either the funniest horror ever made, or the scariest comedy. None of that "horror comedy" shit that mixes laughs and gore - this is pure horror with an edge.

That's what separates it from other "demon child" films like The Exorcist and The Omen - it's scary because of what it doesn't show you, not in spite of it. It's always implicit and subtle and suggested, and you get the sense this could all be in Rosemary's head, but it's no less horrific. Her baby isn't shown because it's much scarier for us to imagine it.

Some may call it boring, or toothless, or something else similarly inane, but I found it refreshingly restrained and even more terrifying because of that. Not despite it.

Plus that music creeps me out.

It's miles miles better than The Exorcist.

Er... that's the reason it's so brilliant. Because you had to imagine what the baby looked like, it made it even scarier than showing it.