...when it came it in the 60’s it scared the crud outta me in my teenage years. Great film for its day...a kind of early 'exorcist'. It even introduced me to the Dakota in NY....the fateful landmark that John Lennon lived and died in.
But the demon that was the whole force behind the film was, unknown to me at the time, actually in the person of the pedophile Polanski, who some years later scared and defiled that poor little girl....
....the man needs castration with a dull sickle and a life in jail as a prison beeeotch.
I never thought Rosemary’s Baby was scary. Then again, neither is my favorite horror film, The Shining. It was okay, not great. Notable today for helping usher in European-style pacing and camera work that became popular in the 70s, for better or worse.
Chinatown, on the other hand, is a classic. One of those films you think of a thousand ways to make it different, but almost none to make it better. The way it hangs together trumps the little flaws (if they are, in fact, flaws).
‘Rosemary’s Baby’ is awesome. One of the best American films of the 1960s. A satire of Yuppies and much more.
Also, only his first feature film (Knife in the Water) is in Polish. The rest are in English.