These awful things do happen in every apartment house, Reivew on Rosemary's Baby

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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