Rosemary's Baby (1968)
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Critic 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.
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Cast
as Rosemary Woodhouse
as Guy Woodhouse
as Minnie Castevet
as Edward "Hutch" Hutchins
as Roman Castevet
as Dr. Sapirstein
as Laura-Louise
as Dr. Hill
as Terry Fionoffrio
as Elise Dunstan
as Joan Jellico
as Dr. Shand
as Mrs. Gilmore
as Tiger
as Grace Cardiff
as Guy's Agent
as Nurse
as Pregnant Woman
as Mrs. John F. Kennedy
as Man at Telephone Booth
as Mr. Wees
as Babysitter
as Mrs. Fountain
as Argyron Stavropoulos
as Young Japanese Man
as Young Woman
as Young Man
as Mrs. Wees
as Mr. Fountain
as Sister Agnes
as Mrs. Sabatini
as Mr. Gilmore
as Sun-Browned Man
as Diego
as Salesman
as Workman
as Lisa
as Dr. Sapirstein's Receptionist
as Skipper
as Hugh Dunstan
as Portia Haynes
as Rain Morgan
as Lou Comfort
as Claudia Comfort
as Devil
as Pope
as Sister Agnes
as Sister Veronica
as Pedro
as Donald Baumgart
as Farrow's Double
as Young Japanese man
as Mrs. Byron
as Dee Bertillon
as Man at Party
as Man at Party
as Man
as Taxi Driver
as Mechanic
as Mr. Nicklas
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Right to its bitter end, there is no escaping "Rosemary's Baby." On film Ira Levin's best selling novel is as horribly frightening as it was on paper.
Rosemary's Baby is suffused with Polanski's style and preoccupations.
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.
Polanski worked with an elegant restraint that less talented filmmakers have been trying to mimic ever since.
One 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.
Audience Reviews for Rosemary's Baby
An excellent and unsettling supernatural thriller in which paranoia grows in a maddening crescendo, and the most ironic is how Polanski made Repulsion and this film (both about rape and women getting horrendously abused) before being convicted of raping a minor years later.
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A taut psychological thriller with visceral cinematography and a haunting atmosphere. One of the bests in its' genre.
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Mrs. Gilmore: We're your friends, Rosemary. There's nothing to be scared about. Honest and truly there isn't! "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.
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Rosemary's Baby Quotes
| Rosemary Woodhouse: | Its going to be a very special party. You have to be under sixty to get in. |
| Guy Woodhouse: | Well... for a minute there I thought I wasn't going to make it! |
| Rosemary Woodhouse: | Oh, you'll make it all right. You can be bartender. |
| Roman Castevet: | Rock him. |
| Rosemary Woodhouse: | You're trying to get me to be his mother. |
| Roman Castevet: | Aren't you his mother? |
| 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! |