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Posted on 03/07/2018 11:12:12 AM PST by simpson96
Right to its bitter end, there is no escaping “Rosemary’s Baby.” On film Ira Levin’s best selling novel is as horribly frightening as it was on paper. Few people could put Levin’s book down. By the same token, viewers of the movie at the Criterion and Loew’s Tower East Theatres will find themselves compelled to see it through. It is that tantalizing a shocker.
The subject matter is peculiarly repugnant. It is witchcraft, not as practiced in Salem or the like, but as taken seriously in our very own city.
The setting is an apartment house modeled after those venerable Gothic caverns on the West Side. The building’s blackened, menacing hallways with their incredibly high ceilings set-off the innocent glow of the young heroine who lives in this gloomy setting with her bridegroom.
Knowing the story from the book killed a little of the suspense for me since director Roman Polanski follows it relentlessly. Therefore, I will tell nothing of the plot. What makes this film worthy of attention, no matter how one reacts to Polanski’s exacting inclusion of Rosemary’s erotic dreams and the sickening triumph of evil in the end, is, surprisingly, Mia Farrow.
Miss Farrow’s special magic is her fragility. She reminds one of a fawn in captivity. What she does so remarkably well is draw sympathy to Rosemary who is herself a captive fawn, a totally helpless heroine surrounded by evil on all sides with now way out. Everyone in the audience will want desperately to help her.
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I believe some or all Satanists were played by actual Satanists.
I’ve watched it many times and it always gives me the creeps in how the husband “pimped” out his wife to the devil...
For a part in a play...
Even Ruth Gordon?
Source, please.
I don’t know much about this movie. I have never seen it - and, now that I know it was directed by Roman Polanski I never will.
Don’t judge him. Artists must make sacrifices for their art...
;-)
A pastor in our area recently recanted in a sermon that he had warned his congregation about going to Rosemary’s Baby when the movie first came out. Shortly afterward, he had to exorcise a baby of a mother who had attended the movie.
SHE CAN’T HEAR US SHE ATE THE MOUSE
In spite of Polanski, it’s a good film - tense and creepy. John Cassavetes drank himself to death way too young, the man was talented.
(Snicker, Snicker!)
GEORGE: She doesn’t deserve a baby shower. She deserves a baby monsoon. She deserves Rosemary’s baby!
The head of the church of satan played the devil raping Rosemary
Not sure what you’re talking about. But anything’s possible
The creepy apartment building is The Dakota. John Lennon lived and I believed was killed in front of it. It was and is home to many famous people.
Good movie, but I could only watch it once. Scared the crap out of me — but not as much as “The Exorcist” did. I can’t believe it’s been 50 years.
Also creepy because Polanski’s wife and unborn baby were murdered the next year by thoroughly evil people. Roman didn’t set up his wife for evil like Guy Woodhouse did, though.
Well it just keeps getting funnier, every single time I see it.
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Did the baby also instantly walk for the first time?
Exorcist or Rosemary’s Baby?
I suppose if I were to watch The Exorcist now it wouldn’t bother me so much. When I saw it I was in my early 20s, had left Seminary a few months earlier (one class was “Demonology”), and was alone all night because my hubby was on midnight shift at Air Force base.
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