Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Release date: 1968-10-17
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Roman Polanski
Production Co: William Castle Productions
Genre: Horror, Drama
Rating: 8.0/10
Length: 2h 17min

Storyline

Desirous of starting a family, the young Catholic housewife, Rosemary Woodhouse, and her struggling actor husband, Guy, move into the Bramford: New York's iconic building which brims with unpleasant stories of obscure dwellers and ghastly occurrences. Before long, the young couple is befriended by their somehow eccentric next-door neighbours, Roman and Minnie Castevet, and, shortly after, Rosemary gets pregnant. However, little by little--as the inexperienced mother becomes systematically cut off from her circle and friends--alarming hints of a sinister and well-planned conspiracy begin to emerge, enfolding Rosemary in a shroud of suspicion and mental agony. In the end, why is everyone so conveniently eager to help; furthermore, why is Guy allowing it?

Plot Keywords

satanism, female nudity, paranoia, devil worship, witchcraft, demonic possession, satanic cult, antichrist, murder, betrayal, 1960s, spell, suicide, rape, baby, nudity, paranormal phenomena, taking a shower, female rear nudity, breasts

Short Review

The fault ultimately is in the Polanski screenplay which overlooks character for effect, disastrously. Involvement is absent; all is surface and it is a smooth one, without the shimmer of the evil that is within.