Rosemary's Baby
Rosemary's Baby is a 1968 film from the USA, directed by Roman Polanski, running 137 minutes. reelscum files it under occult & satanic panic.
- Year
- 1968 · 1960s films
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 137 min
- Director
- Roman Polanski
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- canon (2/100)
- Also known as
- Le bébé de Rosemary
Defined in the glossary: Occult & satanic panic
Nothing supernatural is ever shown. It does not need to be.
Polanski adapts Ira Levin into slow, immaculate paranoia. A young wife in a beautiful old Manhattan building gets pregnant, and the kindly neighbours take an interest that curdles by degrees. Nothing supernatural is shown for almost the entire runtime, and it is more frightening for it.
Mia Farrow gets thinner and more alone as the walls close, and the film never lets you be sure she is right until it is far too late. The horror is that everyone around her is reasonable and she is the problem.
A studio film, not exploitation, and the ancestor of the whole occult cycle.
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