ROSEMARY'S BABY

Year: 1968
Director: Roman Polanski
Screenwriter: Roman Polanski

Main Cast:

Mia Farrow – Rosemary Woodhouse
John Cassavetes – Guy Woodhouse
Ruth Gordon – Minnie Castevet
Sidney Blackmer – Roman Castevet
Maurice Evans – Edward “Hutch” Hutchins
Ralph Bellamy – Dr. Abe Sapirstein
Victoria Vetri (as Angela Dorian) – Terry Gionoffrio
Patsy Kelly – Laura-Louise
Charles Grodin – Dr. C.C. Hill


There’s this girl; she’s happily married to a struggling actor.
They find a new apartment in the Bramford Building.
They make friends with the neighbors, a nice couple of old geezers.
She wants a baby.

A rival actor goes blind. Her husband replaces him.
One night, Rosemary and Guy are having a date at home.
Her neighbor knocks on the door and offers chocolate “mouse” for dessert.
She doesn’t like the “mouse”, but Guy insists that she eat it.
She feels dizzy and falls asleep.
She has a terrible nightmare.

When she wakes up, she notices her back has a few scratches.
Rosemary Woodhouse: I dreamed someone was raping me. I think it was someone inhuman.
Guy Woodhouse: Thanks a lot.
Rosemary Woodhouse: You... you had me while I was out?
Guy Woodhouse: It was kinda fun in a necrophile sort of way.

Rosemary gets pregnant.
She starts having constant pain in her belly.
Her doctor says she must do nothing. No painkillers.
One day it will stop.
Months go by and the pain is still there. She loses weight. She feels weak.
She looks cadaveric.

Finally, she concludes that her doctor is a sadistic nut.
Guy Woodhouse: (on Rosemary's decision to switch doctors) You know what Dr. Hill is? He's a Charlie Nobody, that's who he is!
Rosemary Woodhouse: I'm tired of hearing about how great Dr. Sapirstein is!
Guy Woodhouse: Well, I won't let you do it Ro.
Rosemary Woodhouse: Why not?
Guy Woodhouse: Well, because... because it wouldn't be fair to Sapirstein.
Rosemary Woodhouse: Not fair to Sap... - what do you mean? What about what's fair to me?

All of a sudden, the pain goes away.
The baby is kicking.
Rosemary puts Guy’s hand on her belly so that he can feel it alive.
When he touches her stomach, he recoils.
She doesn’t notice it.
Everything goes back to normal.

When she’s almost due, her best friend dies.
He’d been in a coma for no specific reason.
He'd been conscious briefly before perishing.
He left a book to Rosemary – “All of them Witches”
And a message: “The name is an anagram.”

She gives birth on June, 1966. Year One.

She’s told that her baby is dead. She doesn’t believe it.
When nobody is watching, she trespasses into her neighbor’s apartment with a knife in her hand.
She’d heard a baby crying.
There's a get-together going on.
Her husband is one of them. Now he's a successful actor.
She sees her baby inside an unusually colored cradle.
She wonders what they’ve done to the baby’s eyes.
Her neighbor says that he has his father’s eyes.


This is the best horror movie I’ve ever seen.

Grade: F

Link at imdb.