Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Average Rating: 8.7/10
Reviews Counted: 62
Fresh: 61 | Rotten: 1
A frightening tale of Satanism and pregnancy that is even more disturbing than it sounds thanks to convincing and committed performances by Mia Farrow and Ruth Gordon.
Average Rating: 7.9/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 1
A frightening tale of Satanism and pregnancy that is even more disturbing than it sounds thanks to convincing and committed performances by Mia Farrow and Ruth Gordon.
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In Roman Polanski's first American film, adapted from Ira Levin's horror bestseller, a young wife comes to believe that her offspring is not of this world. Waifish Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) and her struggling actor husband, Guy (John Cassavetes), move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and only elderly residents. Neighbors Roman and Minnie Castevet (Sidney Blackmer and Ruth Gordon) soon come nosing around to welcome the Woodhouses to the
Jun 12, 1968 Limited
Oct 3, 2000
Paramount Pictures
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Cast
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Mia Farrow
Rosemary Woodhouse -
John Cassavetes
Guy Woodhouse -
Ruth Gordon
Minnie Castevet -
Sidney Blackmer
Roman Castevet -
Maurice Evans
Hutch -
Ralph Bellamy
Dr. Sapirstein -
Patsy Kelly
Laura-Louise -
Elisha Cook Jr.
Mr. Nicklas -
Hanna Landy
Grace -
Emmaline Henry
Elise Dunstan -
Marianne Gordon
Joan Jellico -
Phil Leeds
Dr. Shand -
Charles Grodin
Dr. Hill -
Hope Summers
Mrs. Gilmore -
Wende Wagner
Tiger -
Bill Baldwin
Salesman -
Walter S. Baldwin
Mr. Wees -
Roy Barcroft
Sun-Browned Man -
Charlotte Boerner
Mrs. Fountain -
Carol Brewster
Claudia Comfort -
Sebastian Brooks
Argyron Stavropoulos -
Gordon Connell
Guy's Agent -
Patricia Ann Conway
Mrs. John F. Kennedy -
Paul Denton
Skipper -
John Halloran
Mechanic -
Ernest Harada
Young Japanese man -
Marilyn Harvey
Dr. Sapirstein's Recept... -
Jean Innes
Sister Agnes -
Natalie Masters
Young Woman -
Patricia O'Neal
Mrs. Wees -
Robert Osterloh
Mr. Fountain -
Josh Peine
Men at Party -
Joan T. Reilly
Pregnant Woman -
George Savalas
Workman -
Almira Sessions
Mrs. Sabatini -
Michael Shillo
Pope -
Clay Tanner
Devil -
Angela Dorian
Terry Fionoffrio -
William Castle
Man Outside Phone Booth -
Tony Curtis
Donald Baumgart -
D'Urville Martin
Diego -
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Mona Knox
Mrs. Byron -
Elmer Modlin
Young Man -
Gail Bonney
Babysitter -
Joyce Davis
Dee Bertillon -
Frank White
Hugh Dunstan -
Bruno Sidar
Mr. Gilmore
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All Critics (62) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (69) | Rotten (1) | DVD (24)
Certainly only luck can explain the fortuitous conjunction of a strong commercial property like Ira Levin's novel with a strong directorial personality like Roman Polanski without the novel being distorted or the director diluted.
Even readers of the book who know how Baby comes out are in for a pleasant surprise: the very real acting ability of Mia Farrow.
Top CriticOne of the finest horror films ever made.
Weird obstetricians, mysterious night noises and even Farrow's improvised stroll into actual oncoming traffic add up to a bustling nightmare that's spawned many a Black Swan since.
Having escaped the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust in Poland by the skin of his teeth, Mr. Polanski was well equipped psychologically to re-imagine what was, before Rosemary's Baby, a B-picture genre into an A-picture genre.
Get your fix of Mia Farrow looking terrified in Roman Polanski's iconic 1968 thriller Rosemary's Baby.
A terrifying thriller that is held up by its incredible ensemble cast, and all too logical premise.
So long as there are men in power who are still fuzzy on the definition of rape, Rosemary's Baby will endure as a cautionary tale.
Mia Farrow excels as the pretty young thing who suspects she's carrying the spawn of Satan, but it's Polanski who emerges as the real star.
'Rosemary's Baby' presents the dark and the light and allows for choice: does she or doesn't she?
A spellbinding horror film from Roman Polanski.
Four decades later, Polanski's supremely mounted horror thriller holds up extremely well.
...a bona fide classic of the horror genre...
Keep children away from this scary classic.
Keep children away from this scary classic.
Roman Polanski somehow brought his brand of paranoid horror to the Hollywood mainstream with rousing success.
... a serious effort that gradually and carefully constructs a mounting sense of paranoia ...
Roman Polanski's horror classic is literally pregnant with paranoia.... Arguably the finest American horror movie of the 1960s.
Audience Reviews for Rosemary's Baby
Super Reviewer
Full review at themoviefreakblog.com on 11/26
Super Reviewer
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- Rosemary Woodhouse: What have you done to it?! What have you done to its eyes?!
- Roman Castevet: He has his father's eyes.
- Rosemary Woodhouse: What are you talking about? Guy's eyes are normal. What have you done to him, you maniacs?!
- Roman Castevet: Satan is his father, not Guy!
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- Rosemary Woodhouse: What have you done to his eyes?
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- Rosemary Woodhouse: This isn't a dream! This is really happening!
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Foreign Titles
- Rosemaries Baby (DE)
- La semilla del diablo (ES)
"Pray for Rosemary's Baby."
I've seen Rosemary's Baby twice now and with a second viewing, the film was easily able to reinforce it's elite status among the horror classics. This movie is easily in the top 5 of all-time horror films. It's up there with Psycho, The Omen, and Halloween. It's a masterpiece of suspenseful horror, where the scares aren't in your face with jump scares and tons of blood. This movie relies more on atmosphere, music, and pure creepiness, which makes for a more interesting time then the standard horror film.
Rosemary moves into a new apartment in New York with her actor husband. They are planning on trying to have a baby soon, and then begin to get close with their neighbors. A young woman who Rosemary had met in the laundry room, that lived with the old neighbors kills herself. When Rosemary becomes impregnated but doesn't remember the night, she begins wondering how she came to be pregnant. Then she begins to get terrible pains and the doctor she was recommended isn't doing much to help her. All of this leads up to an ending that makes for one of the best endings in horror history. It was heavily influential for movies like The House of the Devil.
Rosemary's Baby has obviously been classified as one of horror's most influential and classic films. I am still a believer that this is Roman Polanski's greatest film. Also Mia Farrow makes for a perfect paranoid, pregnant mother. It's up there with the best work of her career as well. Everything in this movie is just about perfect. It's a beautiful film. The cinematography is wonderful, the score is perfect, and the atmosphere over powering. It's really a film buffs horror film, much in the vain of say, The Shining.
This is a must watch classics and a film that has stood the test of time. Rosemary's Baby showed the world that you could really on purely atmosphere and still bring the scares, just not in typical ways. It's truly one of my favorite horror films of all-time and just a masterpiece of cinema period.