Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
90%RT Audience Score: 87%
Awards & Nominations: Won 1 Oscar
11 wins & 12 nominations total
A frightening tale of Satanism and pregnancy that is even more disturbing than it sounds thanks to convincing and committed performances by Mia Farrow and Ruth Gordon.
Rosemary’s Baby” is a horror classic that will make you want to sleep with the lights on. The film’s masterful editing and brilliant cast will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end. Roman Polanski’s direction is elegant and restrained, creating a sense of paranoia that will leave you questioning everything. And let’s not forget the devilish finale that will have you checking under your bed for weeks. Highly recommended for horror fans and anyone who wants to experience a true cinematic masterpiece. Just don’t watch it alone in the dark.
Production Company(ies)
Twentieth Century Fox,
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
Release Type
Theatrical
Filming Location(s)
Dakota Hotel – 1 West 72nd St. at Central Park West, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
MPAA / Certificate
Approved
Year of Release
1968
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Mono
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Aspect ratio:1.85 : 1
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Runtime:2h 16m
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Language(s):English
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Jun 12, 1968 Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 3, 2000
Genre(s)
Horror
Keyword(s)
starring Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy, directed by Roman Polanski, written by Roman Polanski, Ira Levin, horror, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Judith Crist, Kathleen Carroll, Noel Murray, Eric Henderson, Mark Harris, Stephen Whitty, Michael Calleri, Michel Pérez, Brian Eggert, Kristy Strouse, William Castle, MPAA rating R, Satanism, pregnancy, New York City apartment, neighbors, isolation, diabolical truth, birth, sound mix Mono, aspect ratio Flat (1.85:1), distributor Paramount Pictures, Rosemary Woodhouse, Guy Woodhouse, Minnie Castevet, Roman Castevet, Edward “Hutch” Hutchins, Dr Abe Sapirstein
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Budget and Earnings Details
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John Cassavetes – Guy Woodhouse
Ruth Gordon – Minnie Castevet
Sidney Blackmer – Roman Castevet
Maurice Evans – Edward “Hutch” Hutchins
Ralph Bellamy – Dr. Abe Sapirstein
Director(s)
Roman Polanski
Writer(s)
Roman Polanski, Ira Levin
Producer(s)
William Castle
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
Won 1 Oscar
11 wins & 12 nominations total
Academy Awards
All Critics (77) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (74) | Rotten (3)
The fault ultimately is in the Polanski screenplay which overlooks character for effect, disastrously. Involvement is absent; all is surface and it is a smooth one, without the shimmer of the evil that is within.
October 1, 2019
Judith Crist
New York Magazine/Vulture
TOP CRITIC
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.
June 11, 2015
Kathleen Carroll
New York Daily News
TOP CRITIC
Rosemary’s Baby is suffused with Polanski’s style and preoccupations.
October 7, 2013 | Rating: A
Noel Murray
AV Club
TOP CRITIC
So long as there are men in power who are still fuzzy on the definition of rape, Rosemary’s Baby will endure as a cautionary tale.
October 29, 2012 | Rating: 4/4
Eric Henderson
Slant Magazine
TOP CRITIC
Polanski worked with an elegant restraint that less talented filmmakers have been trying to mimic ever since.
February 12, 2009 | Rating: A-
Mark Harris
Entertainment Weekly
TOP CRITIC
One of the finest horror films ever made.
October 30, 2008
Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
TOP CRITIC
The movie is a masterpiece of editing (by Sam O’Steen and Bob Wyman) and the acting is flawlessly delivered by a brilliant, tour-de-force cast.
June 3, 2022
Michael Calleri
Niagara Gazette
Polanski does not relinquish his personality to Hollywood; he proves that he can achieve dazzling success where many European filmmakers of his generation failed.
April 5, 2022
Michel Pérez
Positif
Rosemary’s Baby builds tension with masterful patience and detail, not because it relies entirely on the payoff of its devilish finale, but because Roman Polanski wants to submerge the viewer in paranoia.
February 14, 2022 | Rating: 4/4
Brian Eggert
Deep Focus Review
It’s pure psychological horror at its best, elegant in a way that’s rarely seen now, as the anticipation of what’s to come and the walls of security and certainty begin to fall around Rosemary.
November 12, 2021
Kristy Strouse
Wonderfully Weird and Horrifying
Highly referenced throughout film and TV, its cinematic influences continue to hold strong, Rosemary’s Baby a classic for the ages.
May 14, 2021
Stephanie Archer
Film Inquiry
Still stands as template of the film industry’s far-reaching allure to achieve a European arthouse aesthetic successfully melded with mainstream pulp.
November 18, 2020
Nicholas Bell
IONCINEMA.com…
Plot
Desiring to start their family, young Catholic homemaker Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling-actor husband Guy move into The Bramford: New York City’s iconic building that brims with unpleasant stories of obscure dwellers and ghastly occurrences. The young couple is soon befriended by their eccentric next-door neighbors, Roman and Minnie and Castevet; shortly afterward, Rosemary gets pregnant. However, little by little
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
Ruth Gordon won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Rosemary’s Baby.
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