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VHS : Rosemary's Baby [1968]
starring: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans
directed by: Roman Polanski
directed by: Roman Polanski
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Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 0780063169233 Format: PAL Label: Paramount Home Entertainment Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Paramount Home Entertainment Release Date: January 01, 1996 Running Time: 131 minutes Sales Rank: 7243 Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: June 12, 1968 |
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk Review:
Horror films don't get much better than this. Even 30 years later, Roman Polanski's adaptation of Ira Levin's bestselling book can still give you the willies. Mia Farrow plays Rosemary, a young wife in New York living in an old apartment building (actually, the Dakota) with a strange history. When her actor-husband (John Cassavetes) befriends their elderly neighbours (Ruth Gordon, who won an Oscar for her performance, and Sidney Blackmer), things start to go right in his career--but she becomes pregnant and begins to have strange premonitions about both the baby and her neighbours. Polanski keeps you on the edge of your seat, using strong performances as well as skilful editing and camerawork to prove that you don't need a knife-wielding serial killer to scare the pants off an audience. --Marshall Fine
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- A Timeless Horror Classic 'Rosemary's Baby' is without doubt Roman Polanski's best movie.
Still after fourty years this film scares me. Not in the kind of gruesome (torture-porn) kind of way that the Saw franchise do, but in a deeply psychological way, in the spirit of all the great twentieth century horror films. Rosemary (Mia Farrow) is the young married woman who's just moving into an upstate New York appartment block with her husband, actor Guy (John Cassavetes). The pair soon get to know their neighbours (mainly) ... Read More
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- Creepy, especially as it has a ring of truthI discovered that this film is loosely part of a Roman Polanski trilogy about the horrors of appartment/city living. Oh how true. I lived in an enormous flat in Westbourne Terrace in London and this film reminded me of it. I also stayed in the Chelsea Hotel in New York recently, and that had a bit of the same feel as the Dakota. Se7en was another film which picked up on the emotional disturbances of city life.
When there are lots of other lives going on around you, you can't help but feel ... Read More
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- One of my favoritesI always loved this film. It was almost perfect in every way. My Grandma used to remind me of Ruth Gordon, so I just adored Ruth Gordon. Here she was her New York yenta-ish self, but a Satanist, too. This is exactly why the film works so well. We all get scared of monsters and psychopaths running around with knives. In this movie, though, the villians are are New York yenta and her intellectual husband.
This does follow Ira Levin's excellent novel. Mia Farrow is perfect as gentle, almost timid ... Read More
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- Great 1960s horror classic!'Rosemary's Baby' is an absorbing film with great performances from all its cast.
Whilst never a fan of Mia Farow, one cannot take away from her the utter convincing role she plays in this. This was one of two films where Farrow made a lasting impression; the other being just three years later in the British thriller from 1971: 'Blind Terror' where she starred alongside Paul Nicholas and Norman Eshley.
Ruth Gordon was to co-star in this, an actress who also starred in a subsequent ... Read More
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- The movie that had caused the fall of Hammer British Horror in the late 60syes it was! The director Roman Polanski tried to integrate some old horror flicks like a Gothic satanic worship, an ancient rite along with a modern place and era like New York city.
The story of Rosemary Baby is much more interresting than any of Hammer British gothic horror movies in the late 60s. This one is a real thriller, suspense and mystery, because one cannot catch exactly, why the Rosemary's pregnancy has been betrayed by her own husband ?
Mia Farrow was very succesfull to play innocent ... Read More
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