Thursday, September 3, 2009

Rosemary's Baby

I picked this Oscar winning movie from the Burnaby Library.I picked it in a hurry.It was mentioned that it had bagged many awards and was rated as a good horror movie.

When we sat down to see it , we were astonished that i had actually got a 1968 year movie!The movie was half a century old and wow! it managed to catch our attention throughout.The movie was centered around Rosemary, wife of an actor who is struggling to make his mark.He is ambitious and overworked on his thoughts about his career.They move into a new building and Rosemary is hoping to get pregnant.There is an old couple who live next door whom she finds very noisy and intruding. Its strange that her husband seems to find them very nice and considers them as parental figures.Rosemary gets pregnant and is pampered by the old couple with their daily concoctions of vitamins and health syrups as prescribed by their doctor.Unfortunately, Rosemary tuns pale day by day and experiences many difficulties throughout her pregnancy.Her friend Hutch dies mysteriously passing on a book on Witches and also a clue that he leaves behind in the title of the book being an anagram.
Puzzled, she struggles her way to find out mysterious  and unexplainable feelings that haunt her and worries desperately to save her baby as much as she could.
In the end she finds out that the neighbors were of a Satanic cult and were practising the Art of Black Magic.She correlates a few incidents and tries to figure out the mayhem in her thoughts.
The most startling fact is that her husband has also joined the cult and they trick her into giving the baby for the Satan.

Its a very well made movie, with coherant scenes that catch your attention throughout.The movie is based on a book called Rosemary's Baby.

Wikipedia Link for the book 
Wikipedia Link for the movie

Genre : Horror /Thriller

Rating : 5/6  
Trailer of Rosemary's Baby  : Youtube link


The Title Song of Rosemary's Baby seems to be very famous and received a lot of attention for the music and mysterious tone of the lullaby .Click here to see and hear the title song.



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