Rosemary's Baby

Pros: Outstanding horror movie
Cons: slightly dated.

When I was first invited to this write off "Bring A Buddy To The Movies" Write-Off hosted by SurgRN911 & SusiDee34 I knew I would like to participate but wasn’t sure if I could find anyone to be my buddy since I wasn’t sure how the whole...

Pros: All of it
Cons: nada zip zilch

Based on the novel by Ira Levin, 1968's Rosemary's Baby was the scariest movie going at the time. By today's standards it's relatively boring, but back then.. ooooh back then! I remember it well. It scared me enough to be afraid of ever getting...

Pros: Controlled direction by Polanski; Mia Farrow's superb delivery; Uses pure emotion to drive the story
Cons: None

"All of them. All of them. All in it together."

Says Rosemary Woodhouse, eyes sunken, cheekbones clear and visible. She mutters it to herself alone in a telephone booth, shut out from the rest of the city. Her tone of voice has that...

Pros: Good pacing, good story
Cons: Dated, special effects are cheesy

In 1968, Roman Polanski created a film called Rosemary’s Baby starring Mia Farrow and John Cassavettes.  Nominated for several accolades and awards, Ruth Gordon won an Oscar (Best Supporting Actress) for her performance as an odd, Satan ...

Pros: Understated creepiness that builds to ever mounting terror.
Cons: Nothing.  That is so rare.

Rosemary's Baby (1968) Directed by Roman Polanski from the book by Ira LevinRosemary: What have you done to him? What have you done to his eyes, you maniacs! Roman Castevet: He has his father's eyes. Rosemary: What ...

Pros: Superb Sets and Pretty Good Performances
Cons: Lacks Scare Value, Slow Pacing

Rosemary's Baby is a horror film that I've heard of often, but had never seen until recently. Most often people who speak of it have only the best things to say, and it's not uncommon to see it at the top of a list of the greatest horror films. This is ...

Pros: Mia Farrow, Polanski's most interesting picture, suspensful, creepy
Cons: None

Amidst all of this controversy relating to Roman Polanski recently being caught in Switzerland for the charges brought against him decades ago, I hoped to write some thoughts on his best film: Rosemary's Baby. I don't want to try and get into a ...

Pros: Great plot, casting and direction make for a classic of the horror genre.
Cons: None whatsoever. But don't let the kids watch it before bedtime.

Ira Levin's classic tale of Gothic horror in 1960's Manhattan is wonderfully brought to life on screen by Roman Polanski. The movie has more depth and strength of characterization than the book, and the biggest surprise, when the film first came out, ...

Pros: Tone, performances, story
Cons: Slow, not exactly clear

Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby is further proof that horror films work better as dramas than as horror films. Instead of populating the film with orchestra hits and ominous creepy-crawley pans, the script allows for the narrative to focus on ...

Pros: The acting (I guess), some humor.
Cons: Highly annoying subject matter, completely fails to scare, too slowly paced

See now, Fight Club is the kind of movie that made me go, ”What the fuck was that?” rewind the tape, and watch it over again. Rosemary’s Baby is the kind of movie that just made me go, ”What the fuck was that?”
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Pros: Creepy & Unnerving (somewhat), good acting, excellent cinematography, love the opening track
Cons: Slow paced, plot is too unbelievable to be truly scary

I recently re-watched this so called classic after arguing with a friend in the video store. I wanted to see The Exorcist, AGAIN, he wanted to see Rosemary's Baby for the first time. "But it's really not even scary, you won't even have to turn on all...

Pros: Less scary than I expected, actually kind of funny
Cons: See above

In the interest of full disclosure, let me say this: I am not a fan of horror movies. Be they psychological thrillers, like "The Sixth Sense", gore fests, like "The Exorcist", or slasher flicks, like the Freddy and Jason films, I generally find the...

Pros: Performances, uncluttered directing style conveys the terror through matter-of-fact conviction
Cons: All right, maybe you'll wonder why the Devil himself would bother with this particular person.

This past week, while glancing through the newspaper I had the good luck to discover that Roman Polanski's 1968 horror classic Rosemary’s Baby was playing on the big screen down at New York City's Film Forum. I had ten minutes until the next...

Pros: Excellent performances, a believable plot, good characterization, excellent setting
Cons: None

A few days ago I saw that Rosemary's Baby was on OnDemand and decided to give this movie a second viewing. The first time I saw it I have to say I was a bit underwhelmed. I was expecting something terrifying but found something that in my fifteen ...

Pros: Credit Polanski with his suspenseful plot structure, Great acting by Farrow and Gordon especially, Effective ensemble cast, Appropriate soundtrack and nice camerawork
Cons: Some of Cassavetes work seems a bit over the top obnoxious

Rosemary’s Baby begins innocently enough as a simple lullaby plays over the pink credits while the camera pans over the New York City skyline, finally panning downward on the Dakota Building on Manhattan’s west side (named the Branford Building in...