Rosemary's Baby Film Analysis

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Rosemary’s baby (1968) is a horror film directed by Polish native Roman Polanski. This was Polanski’s first American film and his second horror film and it was based on Ira Levin’s bestselling novel of the same name written in 1967. This was a creepy and eerie film about a young couple Rosemary and Guy (Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes) who were newlyweds who moved into an apartment in an old apartment building in Central Park West in New York. The couple became friends with their strange neighbors who were an elderly couple that were members of a coven of witches and very intrusive. Guy, who is a struggling actor, isn’t finding much work in his career but all that is turned around when he befriends his neighbor Roman (Sidney Blackmer). Guy and Rosemary decide then that they want to try to conceive a child and the night they are supposed to try, their neighbors Minnie (Ruth Gordon) and Roman come over for dinner and Minnie brings chocolate mousse for the couple for dessert. After Rosemary tasted the dessert she stated that it tasted funny and she decided not to eat it. After tasting the dessert, Rosemary passes out and has a dream about being raped by demonic being while Greg and some of the other tenants in the building watched. When Rosemary woke up to find scratches in her body and was told by Greg that he decided to have sex with her while she was unconscious because he did not want to pass on a chance to conceive a baby. Rosemary soon after finds out she is pregnant. During Rosemary’s pregnancy, she decides she wants to see a specific Obstetrician Dr. Hill (Charles Grodin) but her neighbors recommend their friend who is a Dr. Minnie also has Rosemary drinking a daily shake that she tells her is healthy for her and the baby. The first few months of her pregnancy were very difficult for Rosemary because she dealt with a lot of weight loss and abdominal pains. She also craved a lot of chicken liver and raw meat. The Dr recommended to her led her to believe that her symptoms were normal and that she should not worry much about them. Rosemary’s friend Hutch saw her and because he felt her symptoms and appearance were unusual, he decided to do a little research to try and find out what the issue was. In doing his research, he found some disturbing information but before he could inform Rosemary of his findings, he fell into a deep coma. After falling in the coma, Rosemary’s symptoms went away. Three months later Hutch died but left her a book on witchcraft which was sent to her during his funeral. After reading the book and piecing clues together, Rosemary was spooked and told Dr. Hill of her suspicions but he thought she was delusional and told her husband Guy and the other Dr and they informed her that there will be no harm to come to her or the baby if she would cooperate with them. Rosemary not soon after went into labor and because they heavily sedated her she was unaware of what happened and she woke up to them telling her that the baby died. …show more content…
When you think about a horror film, usually there is a lot of blood and gore involved but this film stayed away from the norm and took more of a realistic approach. There were no special effects to try and scare the viewers or anything of that nature. The director used real life events that could occur to grab the attention of the audience in a creepy way. There were a lot of dark undertones used as well as spooky sounds and an eerie soundtrack. In looking at the cinematography, there was a lot of fading in and out of the camera to exaggerate the horror in the film. Also, the faded colors added to the depiction of the time the film was made and gave the viewers a sense of what things were like in that time. Even with a $3.2 million budget, the film made over $30 million in the US alone without all the special effects like most horror films and was able to portray that same

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