Steven Luros Holliday debuted a Rosemary's Baby poster at HorrorHound Weekend and has made the remaining quantity available online. Priced at $25, the 20x30 print is limited to 175.
ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968) Reviews and 4K UHD release news
Rosemary’s Baby is being released on 4K Ultra HD on October 10, 2023, to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the horror classic. The new 4K Ultra HD package includes a Blu-ray as well as a Digital version and comes packaged in newly commissioned artwork.
Meanwhile, here’s our previous coverage of the movie from way back in 2012.
Rosemary’s Baby is a 1968 American horror film written and directed…
John Cassavetes and Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
Cast: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy, Victoria Vetri, Patsy Kelly, Elisha Cook Jr., Charles Grodin. Screenplay: Roman Polanski, based on a novel by Ira Levin. Cinematography: William A. Fraker. Production design: Richard Sylbert. Film editing: Sam O’Steen, Bob Wyman. Music: Krzysztof Komeda.
Rosemary's Baby is a wonderfully subtle and insidious movie, with director and screenwriter Roman Polanski providing lovely, creepy bits like the figures that tiptoe across the background in the scene in which Rosemary (Mia Farrow) thinks she's alone in the apartment. The film succeeds largely because of Farrow's performance: She brings just the right amount of vulnerability to the role -- she doesn't even need the makeup-induced pallor to convince us that she is prey to something terrible. But all the performances in Rosemary's Baby are top-notch, starting with Ruth Gordon's deliciously vulgar Minnie Castevet, who pronounces "pregnant" as if it had three syllables. John Cassavetes succeeds in the difficult role of Guy, Rosemary's husband; he has to be plausible as the sympathetic, loving spouse at the start -- giving in to Rosemary's desire for the fatal apartment -- but just abrasive enough with his wisecracks to suggest the cynicism and careerism that leads him to sell his soul to the devil-worshipers. Ralph Bellamy also has to be plausibly caring as Dr. Sapirstein to convince Rosemary and the audience that he's on the right side, while also preparing us for later revelations. Other veteran actors -- Sidney Blackmer, Elisha Cook Jr., and even that well-cured ham Maurice Evans -- do fine ensemble work. Richard Sylbert's production design makes the most of the spooky gothic apartment house -- the exteriors are of the Dakota, but the interiors are sets. And Krzysztof Komeda, who had worked with Polanski in Poland on Knife in the Water (1962), provides a score that's atmospheric without being overstated -- until it needs to be.
"Aren't you his mother?" On Sons, Mothers, & Rosemary's Baby
“Aren’t you his mother?” On Sons, Mothers, & Rosemary’s Baby
My mother doesn’t do horror. If it’s scarier or gorier than a Hitchcock thriller, good luck getting her to watch. I’m pretty sure she’s scarred to this day from joining my father and I to see Blade II in theaters. It wasn’t the last Del Toro picture I convinced her to see, but it was certainly the last time she ever saw a spine exposed in an underground vampire BDSM club.
While she likely hasn’t…
Rosemary's Baby's original motion picture soundtrack is available on cassette via Terror Vision Records. The score is composed by Krzysztof Komeda (The Fearless Vampire Killers). Priced at $13, it will ship in September.