#Rosemary'sBaby

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Happy Halloween!!!! This week we are talking about our top 5 favorite horror movies!

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The Barbie selfie generator lets you create a Barbie movie poster featuring a character as a Barbie. We've chosen characters from the horror genre.

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Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Rosemary’s Baby is a terrifying psychological horror film. This picture crawls into your bed at night wrenches your mouth opens and pours its dark bubbling soul down your throat as you lay paralyzed with fear.

Set in 1965, Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow, a revelation in the role) and her husband Guy (John Cassavetes) move into a new apartment. The couple makes friends with their neighbors, the elderly Castevets (Ruth Gordon as Minnie and Sidney Blackmer as Roman) and are suddenly showered with good fortune: Guy lands a big acting role and Rosemary finds herself pregnant. Soon after, the young housewife notices events around her and begins suspecting her unborn child is sought after by satanic cultists. Or is it all in her head?

This film keeps its cards so close to its chest. You might notice a few weird things: a dream with seemingly nefarious implications, a stray line, odd behavior from the neighbors or from Guy. Director Roman Polanski is immensely successful at making you feel just as Rosemary does. The picture feels claustrophobic, but in a way that’s much more sinister than if she was confined to a tiny cell with no windows. She’s free to roam wherever she wants but the people she suspects want to take her baby are always there. At first, you look at some of the odder happenings and dismiss them. It’s the 60’s, people were different back then, nowadays that would be weird behavior but these people are just being old and friendly; the incidents can all be attributed to bad luck, it’s fine; etc. Eventually, it starts grinding away your sense of reason. You look at every little detail and decide there are no such things as coincidences anymore. You want to scream to Rosemary to pack her things and run, take a cab, and take her unborn child with her but it’s as if there are hands clutched around your throat, a gag stuffed inside your mouth preventing you from calling out to her. Then, you realize those are your hands. This story is filled with such suspense and paranoia it’ll drive you mad.

Rosemary’s Baby uses tension, surprises, revelations, and performances like fine oils, conjuring a masterpiece that becomes even more explosive the further back you get. Many films featuring a big mystery, a question about whether the protagonist’s sanity is there or not don’t have the same impact upon a second viewing. With this movie, it's the opposite. Without giving anything away, I want to discuss the conclusion, which is perfect. So elegant and chilling by delivering to you not the ending that the audience wants, but the one the film deserves. This is true embodiment of horror. You’re not going to walk away unaffected.

Praises belong to four chief elements of Rosemary's Baby. First, the writing - so adept at plunging you into this world. Second, the performances - so convincing you become completely immersed. Third, the direction by Polanski, who has created one of the best American-made horror films. Finally, the horror itself. Every element in this film could have been great, but if it wasn’t scary, then it would have been a flop. Rosemary’s Baby is more than just scary, it’s a living nightmare you can't shake. (On DVD, July 22, 2016)

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Rosemary’s Baby by Jonathan Burton

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Roman Polanski’s The Apartment Trilogy 2 out of 3 posters series for school This is Rosemary’s Baby from 1968

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Daniel Hutchens October 31, 2017

Back in 2011, my friend and author James Calemine worked for the online Southern music and culture magazine SWAMPLAND. James, knowing my affection for old and weird horror movies, invited me to write a series about some of my favorites, leading up to Halloween. It was one of the more fun writing projects I've ever gotten into. I even wound up flying to Columbus, Ohio, to meet the great hero/horror movie host of my youth, Fritz the Nite Owl. James and I talked about extending the project beyond 2011; I was just whetting my appetite, and getting ready to dive into some of the more obscure and bizarre films that had warped my young mind. Many of the titles I tackled in 2011 were more well known fare, such as PSYCHO and THE EXORCIST. But some things changed at Swampland, and I got busy with other projects too...so we just left it where it was at Halloween of 2011. Anyway, it was good fun, and if anyone wants to take a peek at any of the pieces I turned out that year, they're all collected right here at the following link. Happy Halloween! https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-GMXdnuSXliZ3ZVWlBBb0U1ZXc/view

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#mothersday #horror #horrormovies #movies #mothers #psycho #carrie #theshining #thebabadook #rosemary'sbaby #scream2 #fridaythe13th

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Vicodin Comix 🤷‍♂️ I realized yesterday that Dirty Barfield is basically the spawn of Garfield and Bill the Cat.

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Mia Farrow as Rosemary. First personal drawing of 2017.

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Mia Darrow from 'Rosemary's Baby' slightly blue.

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Rosemary's Baby on AMC at 7:00?! YES PLEASE!

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Film: Rosemary's Baby

In August of 1969, Sharon Tate, Roman Polanksi's wife, was brutally and infamously murdered by Charles Manson's cult followers. Tate was pregnant at the time, and  two weeks from giving birth. The murders were savage, demonic and alluded to a belief in devil worship and the occult. 

A year previously, In June of 1968 Roman Polanski directed Rosemary's Baby, a horror film in which a young woman [played brilliantly by Mia Farrow] is raped and impregnated by the occult in order to give birth to Satans child. 

The film is a masterpiece, expertly acted, brilliantly shot and uses suspense and surrealism rather than blood and gore to evoke fear. However, watched with the benefit of hindsight the film becomes even more terrifying as we are all grimly aware that, tragically, life eventually came to intimate art and the horrors Polanski committed to film came to be his reality. Watch below:  

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/movie/rosemarys-baby/id211292218