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Summary: Freaky
Review: Ok, as you can tell from the reviews, this movie isn't your typical shrieks and thrills movie. However, it is scary. It's realistic, to a certain extent. It makes you wonder who your neighboors really are!I love both the book and the movie. There is something about these low action horror movies that make them extra scary!!!
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Summary: Top Notch DVD Package Makes This A V. Worthwhile Investment
Review: I think enough has already been written here about the actual movie. I personally think it is tremendous. What I wanted to review is the extras that come with this DVD. There's a short documentary included here that was made at the time of release, about 'Roman & Mia' which for me made my re-purchase of a DVD version of the film worth every cent. It's a fascinating timepiece. Very L.A, very 1968...the way it's shot & put together. Mia was this very fey flower child, painting flowers & the words 'Love & Peace' on her trailer: 'because love brings peace.' There's also a very intelligent contemporary short, consisting of interesting interviews with Polanski & various people who were involved in the original production. Watching the movie again on DVD is like watching it for the first time. Wonderful sound and color reproduction which in no way detracts from the original sensuality of the picture.
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Summary: A waste of a good plot
Review: I thought that this movie was going to be scary, and terrifying. In the end, it was stupid and meaningless. The plot was good, but it was played out all wrong. It was a waste of a good 2 and a half hours and it was one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
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Summary: Polanski & Farrow Deliver
Review: Rosemary's Baby is a horror film, but in the traditional sense. It's not going to make you jump out of your seat or make you scream. In fact, you pretty much can guess the outcome of the film early on. What makes the film so scary is the plot almost seems plausible and the four lead actors convince of you that by playing their parts so well. Director Roman Polanski has created more of psychological thriller and he tortures you by making you wait throughout the whole film as Rosemary slowly pieces together the insidious plot against her. Mia Farrow is beguiling as Rosemary. She desperately wants to start a family, but her actor husband, Guy (John Cassavetes) is wrapped up in his career. When they move into a new apartment, they met their elderly next door neighbors, The Castevets. At first they seem to be typical folks, Minnie (Ruth Gordon) is the classic nosy, pushy neighbor who invites herself into Rosemary's apartment and is constantly chattering on and on and Roman (Sidney Blackmer) is the wizened old-timer full of stories. But they are actually witches, with whom Guy makes a deal that Satan will impregnate Rosemary in return for fame and fortune as an actor. The scene of Rosemary's rape is chilling and creepy as she fades in and out of hallucinations and she doesn't know what's real or a dream. The final scene where Rosemary breaks into the Castevets apartment and sees her baby is extremely effective as we hear a description of what the baby looks like, but we never see it. Mr. Polanski leaves it to our imagination to wonder how Satan's child would appear. The theme music is one of the most chilling of all-time, with a simple la-la-la phrase repeated over and over in girlish, sing-song voice. Ms. Gordon won the 1968 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Minnie and Mr. Polanski's first Hollywood film showed his immense directing talents.
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Summary: Chilling horror story
Review: There is no doubt that Polanski is a brilliant film-maker: he is skilled at creating horror, particularly through suggestion (there is very little graphic horror here). "Rosemary's Baby" is suspenseful and scary throughout. Especially impressive is his ability to create unease and terror through some of the most ordinary, non-supernatural elements of the story, for instance, the isolation of a young woman from her peers. I must admit, however, that this was one of the most unpleasant and disturbing film experiences of my life. There was nothing entertaining here, only shocking and terrifying. For ultimately, Polanski's seminal horror film signals a marked departure away from the redemptive themes of earlier films of the genre; Polanksi's vision is Christless, redemptionless and despairing, the ultimate expression of the "death of God" era to which the film occasionally refers. "Rosemary's Baby" may be technically ingenious, but it it is finally bleak, hopeless and, as such, empty.
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Summary: BEST HORROR MOVIE
Review: Not the scariest horror movie, (that title goes to The Exorcist) but the best horror movie. It's so well made, it's incredible!!! I wish that it could have been the scariest as well, but sadly it wasn't, but it is still a very scary movie. The Exorcist and The Omen are better though. This isn't for people who are easily scared (a.k.a. Scream Fans) This is for thinking people that really get into movies. I'm not easily scared, but this movie really scared me alot! If you liked this, I suggest also renting or buying The Omen and The Exorcist. They are scarier, but this one is right up there with them.
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Summary: SHOCK-A-BYE-BABY....
Review: Roman Polanskis'1968 shocker is as riveting today as it was on its' release. Mia Farrow is permanently etched in our conciousness as the hapless Rosemary Woodhouse who, with her unemployed actor husband Guy (John Cassavetes), moves into a huge New York apartment building where the first friend she makes jumps out of a window to her death. After the neighbors next door, the Castavets, insinuate themselves on the young couple with food and somewhat sinister hospitality, Rosemary has a vivid nightmare of being savaged by a demonic beast. She finds she's pregnant and Guys' career begins taking off. But her pregnancy is anything but routine. Cravings for raw meat and inescapable fears plague her and Guy is of no help. Minnie Castavet (Oscar winner Ruth Gordon) offers strange teas and herbal concoctions but Rosemary senses the worst---the Castavets are witches and are after her unborn baby. But the worst is yet to come. Farrows' performance is achingly real and you feel helplessly frightened for her as a young woman pregnant with her first child trying to get someone to believe her. That her own husband would barter his wife to the devil in exchange for a successful career is a shocking revelation. But the real revelation comes in the end when Rosemary comes face to face with her newborn baby. This is a haunting and memorable chiller made all the more unnerving by Farrow as Rosemary. A modern day classic.
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Summary: This is no dream. This is really happening!!
Review: Today, "Rosemary's Baby" is considered a classic and with good reason. All aspects of this film are top-notch, from the screenplay, to the directing, acting, score, cinematography, and so on. Roman Polanski weaves a highly suspenseful tale of a young pregnant woman who slowly comes to the realization that those around her are plotting against her for the possesion of her unborn child.
Although usually classified as a horror film, "Rosemary's Baby" is much more of a psychological thriller than a true horror film. Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse (perfectly played by Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes) move into their new apartment and soon discover that they are about to become parents. Things quickly begin to unravel for Rosemary as she begins to suspect that her overly nosey neighbors (Sidney Blackmer and Oscar winner Ruth Gordon)are showing far to much of an interest in her health and the health of her unborn child. As the months pass and Rosemary comes closer to giving birth, her fears are heightened and she becomes suspicious of everyone, including her husband. Is she losing her mind or is everyone involved in a conspiracy against her and her baby?
Polanski brilliantly sets up a sense of building paranoia and fear in Rosemary, creating an almost claustrophobic environment around her in which she is powerless to escape from. Polanski creates a wonderfully foreboding mood throughout the film, always keeping the audience from being able to tell the good guys from the bad. The decision not to actually show the baby and leave it's appearance up to the audience's imagination is pure genius.
The acting is exceptional with Mia Farrow giving one of her best perfomances ever and Ruth Gordon winning an Oscar for her spot-on portrayal of an overly annoying neighbor hiding a terrifying secret.
The film also contains one of the most haunting themes ever put on celluloid. Ms. Farrow's lilting lullabye over the film's opening credits is simplicity itself, yet manages to create a wonderful sense of dread and trepidation and sets the perfect tone for the movie to come.
The DVD version is quite good, with great audio and visual clarity. In addition to the usual DVD features (widescreen, subtitles, interactive menus) it contains a "making of" featurette and retropsective interviews with Polanski, Robert Evans (Executive Producer), and Richard Sylbert (Production Designer)
This DVD is definitely for anyone who prefers their horror films to be suspenseful rather than bloody.
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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: This is pretty good. Not better than The Exorcist or The Omen, but still very good. gets kind of slow in the middle, but oh well. This isn't a thriller. Thrillers are for teens and children. This is a horror film. If it doesn't scare you than you didn't get it. It is scary. No jump out and BOO! parts. That isn't what makes a movie scary. People these days don't like getting scared and for some reason they think it is wrong. What are you afraid of getting ridiculed because you got scared in a movie. Ignore the negative reviews, just look at the average star rating. What does that tell you? Rent it.
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Summary: A good movie, but not too scary
Review: I enjoyed Rosemary's Baby, but did not think it was one of the scariest movies ever made. I suppose it depends on what scares you. This movies was a very entertaining thriller. It was not a horror. I think I was expecting more of a scare. Although I was not disappointed and would recommend the movie, I think it is put into the wrong catagory by being called a horror.
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