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www.apolloguide.com - : Now that’s a horror movie! Just a momentary glance at something monstrous, just two scenes showing blood, and a single chase scene. Yet Rosemary’s Baby is as spooky a movie as you will ever see – the perfect antidote to today’s derivative, self-conscious, blood-filled slashfests. more...
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89/1
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www.cinema-scene.com - : Whenever people ask me to name my choice for best horror films, it's always a nice varied bunch that I then get to relate. I've got the five easy ones: The Haunting (Robert Wise's 1963 original, not the 1999 remake), Psycho, The Shining, Halloween, and The Exorcist, but then, just when I've got them thinking I have pretty mainstream taste, I throw out the wild cards, the two films from 1960's Roman Polanski: Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby. Sure, some people have caught Rosemary's Baby, but those that have always give me the weirdest reactions, usually more or less telling me that Rosemary's Baby is simply not scary. more...
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4/4
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : The best thing that can be said about the film, I think, is that it works. Polanski has taken a most difficult situation and made it believable, right up to the end. In this sense, he even outdoes Hitchcock. Both ''Rosemary's Baby'' and Hitchcock's classic ''Suspicion'' are about wives, deeply in love, who are gradually forced to suspect the most sinister and improbable things about their husbands. more...
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4/4
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