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Summary: Classic
Review: This is an example of absolute perfect filmaking. If you read the book, you will know what I mean. It is probably the most true-to-the-original screenplay ever written.Slowly building on on how the everyday things we hear and see can turn into our worst fears, this film spells horror in it's most realistic form ....plain old paranoia. Or is it? "This is no dream; this is really happening!" Watch it over and over again for the view of NYC mid-sixties ... the bright cheerful whites and yellows everywhere... Christmas in the city ... and wow, can they be creepy! Amazing.
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Summary: Did I see the wrong movie?
Review: Okay, some of the reviews said that this was better than the Exorcist (if that was humanly possible), and it wasn't. After seeing the Exorcist, no other scary movie compares. This had an easy plot to follow, lots of chanting, and a bunch of crazy witches saying Hail Satan! The scariest part of this movie is the FBI warning at the beggining. I gave it two stars for the opening song, but other than that skip it. Almost as stupid as The Other. Not The Others, The Other. The Exorcist is way better, and I'm not a die hard Exorcist fan, The Exorcist is simply the Scariest movie ever, because demonic possesion is very real. I was "privleged" to witness one, and I still have nightmares to this day. This is another dumb anti-christ movie. The only good one was The Omen. Skip this and rent The Exorcist or The Omen.
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Summary: "he has he's father's eye's"
Review: Young Rosemary and her husband Guy are young N.Y.C. lovers. Guy is an actor struggling to make ends meat, and really wants to become popular someday. Their also expecting their first new born baby boy, but just on the other side of there bedroom wall in their apartment there lives two old, married, satan worshiping witches who really want there new kid for the there satanic rituals. They really want him after satan himself plants his demonic seed in rosemary witch really is how she gets preganat in the first place. All the perfomances in the movie are fantastic. Ruth Gordon won an oscor for her role as one of the sinster witches next door. The most radiant one. You kind of like her until the films disturbing final(witch is also a hair rasing highlight)in the babysroom. The only thing that holds Rosemary's baby back from five stars is that is slow to get going. Fans of fast paced and gore horror films might be really disapointed with this. I like all kinds of Horror movies. For the most part though, I recomend Rosemarys Baby to anyone, because it's ahead of its time.
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Summary: Twins, Triplets, Quintuplets, and SATAN!
Review: Who could not like Polanski? I actually saw this for the first time when I was younger, 14 or 15 I guess, at my grandmother's house,and it really scard the hell out of me. Since then, I've become more of a cinefile - and a Polanksi fan (check out WHAT? if you haven't seen it yet) - so re-viewing this after so many years was fun. It's funny, everyone yaks and yaks about what a great director Polanski is - me included - but watching his moives you realize he's all about simplicity and minimalism. Long takes, good framing. He's not flashy or obvious like Scorsese or other more "visual" directors, but he's great. For instance, the dream sequence in this movie has got to be one of the most accurate dream sequences ever shot. It's so random and stream of conciousness and so LIKE a dream, it's great. The movie does drag a little I think, but it's not so bad. And man, Mia Farrow used to be ... HOT. Whew! She was stunning. Made me want to go back in time ... And who can't love the ending to this movie. It may be one of the best uses of music in a movie too. Just great. And some of the dialogue must've been shocking for the time. So yeah, check it out, enjoy. B,B+
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Summary: Best DVD ever.
Review: Well close to it, this is what DVD should be about. Good and interesting extras (not just the movie, you can get that on VHS). On this one you actually get to see the beautiful Sharon Tate, she also had a very, very small cameo in the movie (don't blink). Since Paramount released this with the necessary extras to a successful DVD why didn't they do it with Ordinary People. I will not buy it and nor will anyone I know until justice is done.
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Summary: A good story, disturbing to any Christian.
Review: By today's standards Rosemary's Baby is a little drawn-out. It's really not that scary either. However the plot is pretty good. The disturbing part is how innocent Rosemary can be basically sold off to the Devil by her husband in exchange for his fame and fortune, without her willingness or consent.
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Summary: Polanski never disappoints
Review: I appreciate every film Polanski has ever made, but especially Rosemary's Baby. The actors are in top form, the setting in NY's Dakota co-op is extraordinary, the colors are rich, the plotting perfect--it's also a time capsule of 1968 fashions. This film satisfies on every conceivable level, and to this day sets the standard for outstanding psychological thrillers or supernatural horror films. Mia Farrow as Rosemary, Sidney Blackmer as Roman Castavet, and Ruth Gordon as his wife all really shine, but the ensemble acting is superb--a real credit to their professionalism and Polanski's skills as a director. What I don't like about the film is probably the fault of the book by Ira Levin, which I haven't read. If the script was faithfully adapted, then Levin's conceptions of witchcraft and satanism are totally off-base. The only people in this world that literally worship Satan are either moronic teenagers or Christians that have gone bad, refuted God, and in spite, opted for their ignorant, fundamentalist conception of 'the devil.' But that's not witchcraft, or satanism. Even the Pope has recently admitted that hell is just a state of mind, not a destination. Witches, even those few that opt to defy the Wiccan Rede or rule of three and cast curses, are still typically pagans--they revere the goddess and the god and the wheel of the year, or pick their favorite pagan figures from the pantheons of the ancients. Even Satanists are not dumb enough to literally worship Satan; instead, they've adopted the imagery of Baphomet from the Knights Templar (who were at worst Christian mystics, and too rich for their own good) and emphasize the material (ambition, money, retribution, etc.) over any spiritual matters. To a Satanist, the bible and pagan belief systems are equally laughable...
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Summary: STUPENDOUS, UNFORGETTABLE
Review: If only young hotshot directors would study this classic before undertaking their next studio-financed "shocker," our culture might be richer for it. Polanski's first film shot in America (on stages in LA and locales in NYC) continues to amuse and upset the bejesus out of me 30 years later. I watch it at least twice a year and always find a new dark chortle somewhere, usually in Ruth Gordon's Academy Award winning performane as the next door neighbor from Hell... literally. Yeah, drink yah tanis root, Rosemary. Ira Levin's little gothic pop novel was good enough source material, but Polanksi brought more layers with his own phenomenological study of dreams/reality, and his knack for absurdism (no doubt cultivated from surviving his awful, murderous childhood), along with his panache for choosing a great production designer to drape everything in cheerful yellows against browns and blacks (a psychotic color combo if there ever was one). His pal and jazzman Kszytof Komeda weaves a beguiling score in and out of the spooky, goofy proceedings with a recurring lullaby and some 60s avant-garde jazz riffs. All of this is served up with great performances from Ruth Gordon, Cassavettes (in a spoof of the worst kind of Hollywood backstabber imaginable: a greedy actor), Mia Farrow, and Sydney Blackmer. As modern horror films of intelligence and sublime since 1960 comedy go, the viewing doesn't get much better than "Rosemary's Baby" (well, it's tied with "Don't Look Now" perhaps). It's a 'dangerous' film on many levels, and is open to many, many readings, both horrific and acerbic. La-la-la-la...la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-laaaa
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Summary: The scariest movie of all time.
Review: This is, by far, the scariest movie of all time. There's no blood or gore, it's purely psychological. It will scare ...you. See it.
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Summary: Proved Polanski's genius
Review: It's really hard to make a good horror film--as the many inferior examples prove (Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3, Friday the Thirteenth 24!) Along with "Chinatown," this movie proved that Roman Polanski was more than a maker of obscure Polish art films. (It's sad that he hasn't been able to live up to his earlier potential.) Also, Mia Farrow's never been better, and Ruth Gordon became a late-blooming star with this film--even though Polanski had to battle against her scenery-chewing. The movie is a model in pacing; the paranoia and eventual horror creep up on you slowly. The overlooked soundtrack and score are also key players in creating the mood of fear and dread. And all this with out head-swiveling special effects, buckets of gore... or chainsaws. This is the movie all young directors should watch and emulate before going off to make the next cheesey horror series. If they follow Polanski's model, they might actually scare us.
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