Rosemary's Baby (R) *** Starring Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes Directed by Roman Polanski A Review by Frankie Paiva
Reading Entertainment Weekly (also known as "The Bible") I discover that I had not seen the 10th scariest movie of all time. This caused me to rush to the video store to rent Rosemary's Baby (Blockbuster actually had a movie over 20 years old!) which can't really be put into a catergory, unless raped mother conspiracy thriller is a genre.
Rosemary Woodhouse (Farrow) and her husband Guy (Cassavetes) move into an old apartment building where several people have died of witchcraft over the years. Guy is an out-of-work actor (Rosemary always answers "What has he been it?" with "He's been in two plays and has done lots of TV and radio.") he's willing to do anything to make it big, including summoning the devil.
This he does, turns out almost everyone (including Ruth Gordon who won an Oscar) in the apartment building is a member of a Satan-loving cult. They massacre babies and feed their blood and flesh (pleasant) to the devil himself. Guy gets his big break after Rosemary has a dream that she is raped by the devil (a dark and disturbing scene) she is to bear his only child.
As the plot unfolds Rosemary is led through countless twists and turns each one of them more shocking than the next. While I can't say that I enjoyed the ending, I do commend the director for not ever showing us the child of Satan. For that, and for the fact that this 136 minute long movie wasn't hard to sit through, I give it *** stars.
A Review by Frankie Paiva The 12 Year-Old Movie Reviewer E-Mail me at SwpStke@aol.com
The review above was posted to the
rec.arts.movies.reviews newsgroup (de.rec.film.kritiken for German reviews).
The Internet Movie Database accepts no responsibility for the contents of the
review and has no editorial control. Unless stated otherwise, the copyright
belongs to the author.
Please direct comments/criticisms of the review to relevant newsgroups.
Broken URLs inthe reviews are the responsibility of the author.
The formatting of the review is likely to differ from the original due
to ASCII to HTML conversion.
Related links: index of all rec.arts.movies.reviews reviews