Sunday, 12 January 2014

Satanists next door

Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Directed by Roman Polanski this film based on the novel of the same name stars Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon and Sidney Blackmer. Is a young woman slowly buckling under the mental and physical pressure of being pregnant or is there an evil plot to steal her baby?

It appears that the film does a good job of sticking to the plot of the novel and the story works well using the supernatural as a metaphor for mental difficulties a woman suffer from around having a child. What I like most about the film is that it leaves the audience to draw it's own conclusions for a long time before the protagonist actually verbalises what her fears are. Where I was less impressed was with the direction as the film was neither unsettling, scary or really ever tense in my opinion.


4/5

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