We have seen many horror movies made by great directors, we have seen The Shining by Stanley Kubrick, Carrie by Brian Depalma, The Exorcist by William Friedkin, etc. And then there is Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby starring Mia Farrow as Rosemary, a woman madly in love, living in a new place and trying to start a family. Yet something darker runs beneath the surface of this new life, the old couple next door stay up late chanting and singing, her husband starts spending more time them, and when Rosemary gets pregnant everyone is only too helpful providing lockets of luck, vitamin drinks, and little cakes. Most of you probably know how the movie ends, but it isn't the surprise ending of revelation that makes the movie scary it is the inevitability with which Rosemary plummets to that final moment. She is caught in a world of conspiracy and fear and paranoia, filled to the brim with satanic cults, witchcraft, and friendly old people. We believe her beliefs and want to scream or help her escape, but it is helpless and we know it, and such is the terror Polanski invokes. It is not an easy movie to watch, but it is a scary one.
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