Paramount

presents


Movie: ROSEMARY’S BABY (English)
Director: ROMAN POLANSKI
Year: 1968
Country: America
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Cast: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon
Duration: 2h 15m (app)


If Filmmakers are going to continue to attribute ‘Horror’ to the kind of creepy and colourful faces that make their appearance on screen trying hard to jostle viewers, Roman Polanski had proved them wrong way back in 1968 with his first American feature ‘Rosemary’s Baby’.

‘Rosemary’s Baby’ starts with a beautifully haunting track supposed to be a lullaby sung by the lead actress Mia Farrow herself, as the camera browses over the neighbourhood of apartments. As Rosemary(Mia Farrow) and her actor-husband, ‘Guy’ rent an apartment with dark history, Roman Polanski takes us for a ride of one of the fascinating films of horrow ever made. It takes the viewers through some scary camera sequences by how Rosemary tries to gets her baby to be born among various hindrances.

Technically, a highly quality movie with the necessary aura, Polanski has given his film to have. Be it the editing part where the scenes cut abruptly to the next or the crescendos of vibrations and dark background score that fits the movie to a ‘T’, Polanski has made the most out of his technicians. He is known for his eeire thrillers that seem to have set the way for movies of his kind of genre that had yet to come. If his ‘Knife in the Water’(polish) captured creatively the feeling of insecurity with a stranger, ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ pulls just the kind of strings that would give the viewer the necessary blend of horror and thrill with almost no special effects or bloodshed.

It finds a place in the horror genre of my diary with the only other horror movie I cherish till date, ‘The Shining’.

Despite reasons of not explaining why the baby was expected out of Rosemary alone and why the girl who had been brought as a daughter was made to commit suicide and a few other snags, ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ lives to what it promises to be – A worthy Horror movie.


PROS
Direction, Music

CONS
The usual unexplained parts in horror fantasy stories.

COMMENTS
One of the few well made Horror movies.

TAGLINE
A spirutual way of telling the horrors of baby-birth!

GRADING
OVERALL: above B

RATING
7.5 / 10.0