{"id":38,"date":"2025-08-01T04:08:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T08:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2025-11-15T17:22:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T22:22:26","slug":"review-rosemarys-baby-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Rosemary’s Baby-1968"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rosemary’s Baby-1968<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director Roman Polanski<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starring Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon<\/strong><\/p>\n

Top 250 Films #14<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Top 40 Horror Films #4<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Scott’s Review #9<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reviewed June 17, 2014<\/p>\n

Grade: A<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rosemary’s Baby (1968) is not only a great film, it’s a masterpiece. Easily one of my favorites in the horror genre, it’s also towards the top of the list of my all-time favorite films.<\/p>\n

The beauty of this film lies in its power of suggestion and subtleties. It lacks the blood, gore, or standard horror frights one might expect.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t need them.<\/p>\n

The audience senses something is amiss through clues provided throughout the film. The closed-off room in the young couple’s apartment, the sweet, but a bit odd, elderly neighbors, a strange suicide, a mysterious, horrid-smelling, good luck charm. Rosemary’s due date (June 6, 1966- “666”).<\/p>\n

The strange, dreamlike conception scene is intense and surreal. Her husband- claiming Rosemary passed out from too much alcohol- begins to become a suspicious man following the incident, but we are confused by his involvement- what are the neighbors up to, we wonder? Are they sinister or simply innocent meddlers?<\/p>\n

In a sinister scene, Rosemary gnaws on bloody raw meat, catches her reflection in the glass, and is horrified by her behavior.<\/p>\n

Mia Farrow is excellent as the waifish, pregnant Rosemary, who loses weight, rather than gains it.<\/p>\n

The film also has a couple of real-life eerie occurrences: the building setting (The Dakota) is where John Lennon was shot and killed, and Director Roman Polanski’s wife, Sharon Tate, in a cameo, was murdered shortly after filming by Charles Manson.<\/p>\n

Rosemary’s Baby shares a similar theme with other devilish\/demon films, such as The Exorcist (1973) and The Omen (1976).<\/p>\n

This is a film that must be seen by everyone and only shines brighter with each subsequent viewing.<\/p>\n

Oscar Nominations<\/strong>: 1 win<\/strong>-Best Supporting Actress-Ruth Gordon (won)<\/strong>, Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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