I don't know what it is with that film, but Rosemary's Baby is endlessly fascinating to me - I always look for it around Halloween. I've seen it countless times despite it being really long, like three hours with commercials. I think it's the combination of late 1960s decor and fashion (look at that sexy quilted bedjacket); New York; Mia Farrow's makeover and irresistible innocence; pushy neighbour Ruth Gordon and her awesome blue eyeshadow, orange blush and rust lipstick; the animated way actors spoke back then; Roman Polanski's knack for creating tension and its overall creepiness. Polanski has a way of getting under your skin (insert joke here). Hmm...I guess I do know what it is about that film.
About that remake idea that got flushed down the crapper - that's where it should stay. The producers "couldn't find a new angle to introduce that would be credible." Well, that's never stopped Hollywood before. I shudder to think of which flavour-of-the-moment starlet whose talent is contained in either her boobs, butt, legs or lips they would have cast as Rosemary Woodhouse. Now that would be truly horrifying.
Mia was SO amazing-looking in that movie.
Posted by: WendyB | October 31, 2009 at 11:03 PM