Rosemary's Baby Film Analysis

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 …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