These awful things do happen in every apartment house

Elbert 2022-04-21 09:01:27

Rosemary's Baby was originally proposed as a project to Alfred Hitchcock. He turned it down, and instead it fell to the up-and-coming Polish director Roman Polanski. It's hard to imagine what the master of suspense would have made out of this tale of devil worship and Catholic guilt, even though there is some Hitchockian psychology and mystery at work. As it was however, it proved to be right up the young Polanski's street, taking his career to new heights, and spawning a run of occult horrors in the late 60s and early 70s, of which this is still one of the few greats.

Rosemary's Baby is a real landmark in horror. It helped keep the genre alive by pushing the occult - something fairly taboo, and not fully explored in cinema since the days of silents - to the fore. Also the restrained atmospheric horror was doubtless influential, particularly on Kubrick when he came to make The Shining. It inspired a lot, but was rarely bettered.

These awful things do happen in every apartment house. The most horror thing i got from Rosemary's Baby was the excessive enthusiasm of the as-thought witch couple. We free people should have private lives but this kind of impropriety and disrespect can be a massacre toward different lives. I'd rather see no congregation scene before the ending because in my perception the whole witch thing is a hallucination and a nightmare, which comes after the aggressive neighbour caring and the severe neglect from husband. It can be the greatest feminist film : we can just see the whole process of disgraceful humanities before a miscarrying end.

Christopher

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  • Percy 2021-10-22 14:42:16

    Watching this movie in American cinemas, the old beauties are almost scared to pee! As for why foreigners feel so terrible, in addition to the excellent atmosphere of horror created by Polanski, there is also the devil theme in the film that is condemned by the gods in the West (of course, this kind of thing is difficult for Orientals to understand) female characters are like Hitchcock Kirk's beauty tricks were kept in the dark and played with everyone! The film finally returns to the common motherhood theme, but it is dark

  • Alessia 2022-03-24 09:01:24

    When I saw the title, I thought it was a bloody cult film, but I didn't expect it to be a great religious thriller. There was no straight-forward presentation. With the weird soundtrack, it created a full suspenseful atmosphere. As the story progressed, the evil conspiracy gradually unfolded. , The disturbed heroine and the charming others look very horrifying, is it a relief from insanity or a continuation of the deception? The mystery is not solved until the end. This way of describing cults from the side is more interesting and attractive than bloody piles or possessed exorcism. You must know that this is a 1968 film. And the accent of the movie is very British, and the words are very slow and have a sense of tone.

Rosemary's Baby quotes

  • Rosemary Woodhouse: They use blood in their rituals, and the blood with the most power is baby's blood!

  • Rosemary Woodhouse: Awful things happen in every apartment house.

    Edward "Hutch" Hutchins: This house has a high incident of unpleasant happenings.