(1968) ****
La la la la la la la la.......I LOVE this movie! This is the kind of movie that makes you scared of old people and of having a baby. Though I've seen this movie a million times, I had to one more for Horrorthon! Yay!
So this movie is about a young married couple Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, who move into an old apartment complex. They are surrounded by nosy neighbors that feel the need to bug them all the time. When Rosemary becomes pregnant, she becomes paranoid of her neighbors being witches.
Nosy neighbor doesn't want a cup of sugar..
I just love the soundtrack to this move. I'm not all that crazy about the guy "Guy" who plays the husband. As Rosemary is pregnant, she becomes sickly and her husband doesn't seem all that concerned..jerk. At a party that Rosemary hosts, one of her guests says she's white as a piece of chalk.
She looks like death and no one cares..
I've read the book to this movie about 5 years ago which of course, the book is always better. But I highly recommend watching this movie if you haven't!! The ending is the best!!
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have never seen this, but plan to this month!
Love this movie as well. No one could play Rosemary like Mia Farrow. No one could look as convincingly as chalk as she does!
This movie is the bomb. Two bits of coolness from the wiki page:
One of Mia Farrow's more emotionally charged scenes occurs in the midst of a party, when several of Rosemary's female friends lock Guy out of the kitchen as they console her in private. The scene was shot in a single day. That morning, just before the first take was filmed, a private messenger served Farrow with formal divorce papers from Frank Sinatra. As she read the documents, Farrow fell to her knees on the kitchen floor and openly wept in front of the cast and crew. Roman Polanski insisted that the day be canceled and filming be postponed until the next day, when he would start consecutively filming as many scenes as possible that did not contain Rosemary. Farrow openly would not accept this, insisting that nothing had changed. The day's filming concluded on time and without delay.
When Farrow was reluctant to film a scene that depicted a dazed and preoccupied Rosemary wandering into the middle of a Manhattan street into oncoming traffic, Polanski pointed to her pregnancy padding and reassured her, "no one's going to hit a pregnant woman". The scene was successfully shot with Farrow walking into real traffic and Polanski following, operating the hand-held camera since he was the only one willing to do it.
Love, love, love this film. Totally scared the shit out of me as a kid and still packs a punch to this day.
The only thing "wrong" with this movie is Mia Farrow's fucking accent. She sounds more affected than Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow put together. I'm glad nobody tries to talk that way any more.
Dammit I JUST got this in the mail to watch & review! You always beat me to the punch :-P
Can't wait to watch it!
Cool anecdotes Octo. I always have this one paired with The Sentinel in my mind. '70s horror films in cool NYC apartments. I prefer The Sentinel, but Rosemary's Baby is awesome as well. Good review. I always fear that they'll remake this one.
I love Mia Farrow! I first heard her in a cartoon movie called The Last Unicorn, when I was a wee little girl. Then I was excited to see her play the nanny in the remake of The Omen!!
I hear ya Trevor. It's only a matter of time before a remake starring someone from Bridesmaids and Ryan Reynolds brings attention to - and inevitably pukes all over the original.
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