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Rosemary's Baby (1968)

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Reviews Counted:54

Fresh:53

Rotten:1

Average Rating:8.6/10

Consensus: 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.

Runtime: 2 hrs 16 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: Roman Polanski's stylish occult thriller ROSEMARY'S BABY is possibly the director's most famous film and was a big box-office success at the time of its 1968 release. This was Polanski's first... Roman Polanski's stylish occult thriller ROSEMARY'S BABY is possibly the director's most famous film and was a big box-office success at the time of its 1968 release. This was Polanski's first American feature film, following his frightening 1965 REPULSION, which was made in England. The use of producer William Castle--famous for popular low-budget horror--helped propel Polanski forward into a long and rigorous career as one of the masters of the genre. The terrifying satanic story forever haunts fans of this cult film, the setting of which--Manhattan's Dakota building--carries a ghost story of its own as the location of John Lennon's assassination. A young, happily married couple, waif-like Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and struggling actor Guy (John Cassavetes), move into a spacious apartment in a venerable old building off Central Park. They are befriended by the elderly couple next door, Roman (Sidney Blackmer) and Minnie Castavet (Ruth Gordon in an Oscar-winning performance), who seem to take a special interest in Rosemary's well-being. Shortly after another young woman in the building commits suicide by jumping out a window, Rosemary begins to be plagued by disturbing dreams, including a hallucinogenic black mass sequence in which she is raped by something "inhuman" while surrounded by a host of unlikely spectators. Rosemary discovers she is pregnant and soon falls violently ill. The Castavets offer advice and home remedies and even go so far as to talk her into seeing a new doctor of their choosing. But when the young couple's friend Hutch (Maurice Evans) exposes her eccentric but seemingly well-meaning neighbors as members of a witches' coven, Rosemary realizes that she is the victim of a deeply evil conspiracy and that no one can be trusted--not even her own husband. [More]

Starring: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Ralph Bellamy

Starring: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Ralph Bellamy, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Victoria Vetri, Patsy Kelly, Charles Grodin, Elisha Cook

Director: Roman Polanski

Director: Roman Polanski
Screenwriter: Roman Polanski
Producer: William Castle
Composer: Krzysztof Komeda

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Sep 15, 2009

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One of the finest horror films ever made.

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10/30/08
Stephen Whitty
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Newark Star-Ledger
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10/30/08
Joshua Rothkopf
Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out New York

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.

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10/29/08
Andrew Sarris
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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Get your fix of Mia Farrow looking terrified in Roman Polanski’s iconic 1968 thriller Rosemary’s Baby.

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10/28/08
Miranda Siegel
Miranda Siegel
New York Magazine
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Roman Polanski somehow brought his brand of paranoid horror to the Hollywood mainstream with rousing success.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
10/21/08
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

... a serious effort that gradually and carefully constructs a mounting sense of paranoia ...

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07/04/08
Steve Biodrowski
Steve Biodrowski
ESplatter

Roman Polanski's horror classic is literally pregnant with paranoia.... Arguably the finest American horror movie of the 1960s.

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09/19/07
Channel 4 Film
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Several exhilarating milestones are achieved in Rosemary's Baby, an excellent film version of Ira Levin's diabolical chiller novel.

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09/19/07
Variety Staff
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Variety
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The brilliance of the film is that it takes this realistic basis and builds upon it with supernatural metaphors that make pregnancy a rich and strange condition.

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09/19/07
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Superbly acted (especially by bone-thin Farrow and Ruth Gordon as the ultimate neighbor from hell), it’s a satantango in the land of Is-this-real-or-am-I-crazy?, with a luridly literal ending that doesn’t negate the previous, more interior terrors.

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09/19/07
Ed Park
Ed Park
Village Voice
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A very sophisticated, very effective piece of work spun from primal images, with an excellent cast.

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09/19/07
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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Polanski's most startling accomplishment is ultimately twisting something as natural as maternal instinct into something horrifying, if not downright monstrous.

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12/26/06
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

A supremely intelligent and convincing adaptation of Ira Levin's Satanist thriller.

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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

An intelligent and faithful adaptation of Ira Levin's Satanists thriller.

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04/23/06
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

fantastic horror

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04/03/06
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
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A horror classic that is as fresh and relevant as when it was released

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12/02/05
Jon Niccum
Jon Niccum
Lawrence Journal-World

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11/01/05
Cole Smithey
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10/10/05
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09/20/05
Linda Cook
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Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

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06/29/05
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