Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Director: Roman Polanski
I am fed up with the horror movies ala-Friday the 13th and its clones that followed. It was essentially filled up youngsters screaming their lungs out to gore, crimson hued ketchup with a lot of skin and knife piercing sounds! Thanks to mindful censors, the butchered scenes of butchering would appear out of sync.
This film is a pioneer of sorts to many psychological thrillers that followed featuring pregnant mothers and devil worship. Kudos to the director for managing to maintain the suspense with appropriate musical score and silence when required.
The Woodhouses, Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and Guy (John Cassavetes) move into their new apartment. Guy is a struggling actor and Rosemary is a home maker who is longing to make home for her husband and her baby soon. After a mysterious death of one of its tenants, The Woodhouses befriend an elderly couple, Minnie and Roman Castevets. The neighbours become close with them in spite of initial reluctance on their part of the Woodhouses.
Rosemary soon conceives.
The Castevets go out their way to feed them with nutritious drinks, amulets and even suggest an obstetrician for Rosemary to see. Rosemary senses that something is not right when she has recurrent abdominal pains and keep on losing weights. Her close friend, Hutch, who suggested that there might be witchcraft involved slips into a coma for no reason. The obstetrician and her husband too, seem to be on the Castavetes' side. Against all odds, Rosemary is tranquilized and she delivers a child. She is however told that the birth was a stillbirth!
After much probing and searching, Rosemary finds out that her child is indeed very much alive and is a toast to all the devil worshipers in the group led by the Castevetes. The group comprise the obstetrician, many tenants of the apartment and her husband would had sold his soul to the devil for better acting prospects.
The child, Adrian, is supposed to be the reincarnation of Satan on earth!
An enjoyable movie with excellent performance by Mia Farrow who fit her role of a cachexic mother, accentuated by her Vidal Sassoon inspired boyish hair cut that shocked the world during her stint in Peyton Place. It is nostalgia looking at the extras in the movie with the late 60s above knee outfits complete with bob cut, fake eye lashes , eye-tex, and heavy eye shadow.
The doctors were already using plastic syringes then.....
And Mia Farrow received her divorce papers from Frank Sinatra during one of the crucial scenes, for continuing to act after marriage...
I am fed up with the horror movies ala-Friday the 13th and its clones that followed. It was essentially filled up youngsters screaming their lungs out to gore, crimson hued ketchup with a lot of skin and knife piercing sounds! Thanks to mindful censors, the butchered scenes of butchering would appear out of sync.
This film is a pioneer of sorts to many psychological thrillers that followed featuring pregnant mothers and devil worship. Kudos to the director for managing to maintain the suspense with appropriate musical score and silence when required.
The Woodhouses, Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and Guy (John Cassavetes) move into their new apartment. Guy is a struggling actor and Rosemary is a home maker who is longing to make home for her husband and her baby soon. After a mysterious death of one of its tenants, The Woodhouses befriend an elderly couple, Minnie and Roman Castevets. The neighbours become close with them in spite of initial reluctance on their part of the Woodhouses.
Rosemary soon conceives.
After much probing and searching, Rosemary finds out that her child is indeed very much alive and is a toast to all the devil worshipers in the group led by the Castevetes. The group comprise the obstetrician, many tenants of the apartment and her husband would had sold his soul to the devil for better acting prospects.
The child, Adrian, is supposed to be the reincarnation of Satan on earth!
An enjoyable movie with excellent performance by Mia Farrow who fit her role of a cachexic mother, accentuated by her Vidal Sassoon inspired boyish hair cut that shocked the world during her stint in Peyton Place. It is nostalgia looking at the extras in the movie with the late 60s above knee outfits complete with bob cut, fake eye lashes , eye-tex, and heavy eye shadow.
The doctors were already using plastic syringes then.....
And Mia Farrow received her divorce papers from Frank Sinatra during one of the crucial scenes, for continuing to act after marriage...
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