*ROSEMARY'S BABY* in the DARK | First Time Watching | MOVIE REACTION
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- One line: No baby. Two lines: baby. 666 lines: Rosemary's Baby. This iconic 1968 horror film from Roman Polanski starring Mia Farrow has been on our short list for a while now, and I'm so glad we finally got to watch it as the last Spooks + Booooze Candlelight Fright of 2023! Check out our reaction to this devilishly unsettling film and let us know your thoughts :)
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00:00 Intro
01:56 Reaction
35:04 Commentary & Final Thoughts
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Mia Farrow
John Cassavetes
Ruth Gordon
Sidney Blackmer
Charles Grodin
Victoria Vetri
Ralph Bellamy
Maurice Evans
Elisha Cook, Jr.
Wende Wagner
Phil Leeds
Patsy Kelly
D'Urville Martin
Sharon Tate
Fritzi Jane Courtney
Roman Polanski (dir.)
Ira Levin
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Hard to imagine Mia managed worse partners in real life than her character in this movie.
OMG not to laugh, but holy sh*t you’re totally right. That’s so true.
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The ending felt very resolved to me. Roman talked Rosemary into totally being Satan’s baby mama.
I hate the ending but you’re right
Yeah, not sure what ending he wanted. Mother accepted child. What's he want, a narrator to say they lived happily everafter?
Yeah, it’s definitely resolved. These guys are just too dumb to understand it.
I just love this movie so much. I don't think it's really unresolved. Rosemary will mother the baby. That's the resolution and the horror. We don't have to see whether the Apocalypse happens or not. It's a wonderful, horrible ending. This movie is horrifying because the person you trust the most is really your enemy and justifies it to himself.
“Persons” it’s horrifying because everyone is involved..
That IS the Dakota Building! Great catch. The director Roman Polanski’s wife Sharon Tate was murdered the year after this film. Coincidentally she was pregnant at the time. Ruth Gordon won the best supporting actress for her role as Minnie. Also… the late 60s early 70s was the pinnacle of satanic programming… television and movies. The scene where Rosemary walks into traffic was real. Roman convinced Mia that “no one would hit a pregnant lady” so on the count of three she and the camera man simply walked into oncoming traffic. Also, the producer William Castle appears in a cameo as the guy wanting to get into phone both while Rosemary is waiting for a call. Fun review guys!
Thank you for the kind words about the review :) You KNOW how much I love trivia, and you delivered in this comment!! I knew some stuff about Roman Polanski and his history (errrr, rhymes with “cape”..) but I didn’t know he had been married to Sharon Tate!! I don’t know how I missed that tidbit of pop culture knowledge. Thank you again my friend
Right? Good eye!
Fun fact I learned from an Architectural Digest video - the Dakota got its name because when they were building it, people said it was so far north in Manhattan it might as well be in North Dakota.
For what it's worth, a friend and I once walked into traffic on 3rd ave and similarly crossed the street to escape a drunk lady who was harassing my friend and me.
Kinda weird how Tate's murder was linked to a Beatles song on the same album as a song about Mia Farrow's sister Prudence and then she starred in a film about witches in the same building Lennon was murdered - and he and especially his wife were very into the occult too.
I don't believe in anything paranormal but it's a spooky chain of connections.
Great reaction!!! Guy Woodhouse is one of the most despicable characters in cinematic history and John Cassavetes played him to perfection.
Completely agree. Especially because he was so famously a devoted husband to Gena Rowlands in real life! What an actor (and director!). I know he and Polanski didn't get along.....but both had the last laugh. Cassavettes put "Faces" out in 1968 which was hugely groundbreaking and acclaimed, and Polanski put out "Rosemary's Baby" the same year, equally groundbreaking and acclaimed. Both garnered Oscar nominations. Love both directors.
@@TTM9691 And interestingly enough, both Rowlands, Cassavettes and Gordon all appeared on Columbo in different and great episodes with Cassavettes' real-life friend Peter Falk.
@@TTM9691But IS he despicable? Really despicable? Since we never see him alone with the Castavets, we're free to speculate. Imagine yourself as Guy. He loves his wife. We never see him grumpy or angry. He even tolerates Rosemary's constant listing of his c.v. like she's ashamed of it. The day of the dinner he comes home dejected at losing narrowly a part to a rival. He's not angry or sad just....beaten down. He goes to the dinner and Roman gets him alone and hints at a few things. Rather than rudely rolling his eyes, he decides to play along for laughs. He doesn't tell Rosemary because her upbringing taught her not to be mean to the senile. So he goes there the next night and Roman lays it all out. And Guy plasters a smile on his face and then a look of intelligent concern. He doesn't notice really when Roman tells him that if he tries to back out, he and Rosemary will jump out the window like Terri.
So like anyone else with a brain, Guy asks the big question: "Roman, what if I get a break on my own? How will I know whether or not the break will come naturally or because of this bargain?"
And Roman replies "Just bring me something personal of this man's, and I guarantee that within 48 hours at the most you will get the first sign of Satan's trust in you in an extremely dramatic fashion."
So Guy, still playing along for his own amusement, agrees. And when Donald goes blind, he thinks " Holy shit!!!! This -this is for real!!"
Now he's forced to go along with Roman. Even so, there is no proof that with success came women and booze. He buckled down and worked. Because he outsmarted and outplayed himself. He knows the consequences of upsetting Rosemary, who will soon be the Queen Mother Of Hell. She'll have power beyond belief over EVERYONE on earth, even Roman.
Since we never see ANYTHING that Rosemary doesn't see, this is just speculation. But it is speculation based on observing Guy BEFORE the dinner. He is sarcastic and playful and a little beaten down, He's not wild about the apartment but he goes along with his wife's wishes. Even with Rent Control, it is still expensive. And Rosemary doesn't work, like she would in real life. Remember DINKs? Double Income No Kids? The predecessor to 80s YUPpies. And reactors apparently never heard of Rent Control for big NE cities, where you looked for an apartment by first checking the obituary pages.
This is just speculation but Guy truly loves Rosemary and wants to protect her. Part of the problem is simple. He LOOKS like the devil! And in acting, physiognomy is destiny. If Redford and Beatty had not been so protective of their images, we might have had Redford or Beatty as Guy. But we got Cassavetes, who did just fine, despite of his face. And given who came out of the New York theater scene in the late 60s (DeNiro, Pacino, Keitel, LoBianco, Musante, Asner, Webber, Hackman) etc. he looks the part. But he's 20 years older than Farrow but he does his best not to look it.
Polanski had two English language movies under his belt (Repulsion, The Fearless Vampire Killers) as well as Cul-de-Sac and Knife In The Water and he had proven that he and Antonioni had surpassed Hitchcock as a master of suspense. And this movie was the prime example of Holocaust Horror, where claustrophobia and the gradual tightening of the screws replaced jump scares and cheesy horror tropes. No one lied about how a bad thing was going to happen. Like the Nazis in WW2.
THEY never lied about their plans for the Jews and Gypsies and Communists. And Slavs. And at the end of the war they said "why the surprise? We told you what we were going to do."
@@cwdkidman2266 What in f**k sake are you babbling about? There is no way I'm reading this drivel, and even just a cursory glance at the first few sentences makes me roll my eyes. Man, you need a life, big time. I'm embarrassed for you. You actually typed that all out, huh?
I think Guy smart-assed his way into the whole situation by playing along as a joke, to secretly make fun of the old couple, and THEN when Donald goes blind he thinks "Holy Shit! This is for real! These...these people are POWERFUL!" THEN Roman reminds him of his promise and what will happen to him and Rosemary should be not live up to the bargain.
Before, we see Guy joking around and not being grumpy or angry when he misses out on parts. He's a nice guy. We never have the slightest hint of infidelity or unkindness. He treats Rosemary well. He loves her. Then he gets scared to death when he realizes what he's done.
I think the ending is embracing a tragic contradiction: one of Rosemary's deepest, most wonderful qualities (her maternal instinct to protect her baby at all costs) is now driving her to facilitate one of the worst things imaginable (raising the Antichrist and dooming the world). The final look on her face suggests to me that - despite everything - she can't help but LOVE the little demon-baby, because he IS her child at the end of the day. :)
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First: you guys are adorable and hilarious. Second: your cutting is always so good as well, kudos. And finally: of course it ends ambiguously!!! Polanski just let that metaphor vibrate. In my first viewing of the film I too felt a little cheated but as I have watched this film several times again I think this really is the best and most inevitable ending the film could have had. It’s very moving, actually, how a mother’s love for her baby eclipses even the most evil reality.
Aww thank you so much!! ♥️ That was my biggest lesson since starting the channel- the trickiness of trying to respect copyright, while also trying to be faithful to the material, and then also lining it up with our comments. So I really appreciate you saying that! I totally agree with you about the ending, btw. It felt very different watching it the 2nd time :)
@DavidvsFilm you knocked it out of the park. Editing is not easy.
And those YT Copyright God's must be appeased.
@@theConquerersMama Thank you ♥️
There is no metaphor. Ira Levin, who wrote the book, conceived of it purely as a unique kind of horror where the reader is forced to anticipate the arrival of evil as it slowly grows inside of a human, not waiting in the dark like a traditional monster. It wasn't meant to be a commentary on anything.
I swear, people can't be told a story anymore without thinking that everything in it is meant to represent something else.
Because you see no deeper meaning that means there is none? Any chance it’s just you have a different way of watching films than others? The craft of story-telling has so many layers, especially when it is on a level like this film. Even commercials have layers of “symbolism”, albeit much more primal and less subtle. That’s just a layer you don’t pay attention to. I remember going to see Terminator II when I was in high school and leaving the theater feeling like I’d seen a totally different film than everyone else. There were definite political metaphors, a definite symbolic structure, but most people just saw the explosions. Was I wrong and were my friends right, or were we all right?
My guys! Good choice! when I was a kid in the 70s, they'd show this on TV once a year, maybe. And if any kids were in the house, we weren't even allowed in the doorway of the room where the TV was playing. Usually, kids would hang out together, so we'd have something to do and NOT be inclined to want to watch this. Until The Exorcist came along, this was the biggest modern movie to scare the shit out of a lot of people......
Sorry Mark, but in this case the end, that's the (unsettling, as David said above)) horror of this story. At the end, what you don't hear in the movie are Rosemary's thoughts of how she plans to mother the baby to gain the coven's trust until she can escape with it and take to a priest or religious sanctuary. In 1966 TIME magazine ran a cover article "Is God Dead" speaking of society's falling away from organized religion. Ira Levin's novel Rosemary's Baby published in 1967 and was a best seller and a catalyst for a "horror boom" in horror fiction. I read the novel and always say that the movie is the best adaptation of a novel I've seen on screen. They may have cut some dialogue from the book but they didn't add any unnecessary crap scenes to the film. And I loved the dream scenes, so surrealistic. Your right about that perfectly creepy lullaby at the beginning and end of the movie. Ron and I often sing it as a warning to "let's go and get out" when we're in an uncomfortable situation. We also drop Rosemary's "This is no dream; this is really happening!" when it's time to go.
I completely agree. If every single ending of every single story was fully tied up with a bow, storytelling would just be boring.
Ira Levin's novels are built for film adaptations. The film adaptations of The Stepford Wives and The Boys from Brazil are also exceptionally faithful to their novels. Levin wrote in an very, very cinematic style that translate pretty seamlessly to the big screen.
The novel is indeed excellent. (Let’s not talk about the sequel) Then movie is extremely faithful, because apparently this was because Polanski had never done a book adaptation before and didn’t know that making changes was a possibility. As a reader of the book we’re told everything that is going on inside Rosemary’s head, so her panic and paranoia is a lot more heightened.
What makes “Rosemary’s Baby” such an effective horror movie is that there isn’t any gore (aside from a brief glimpse of Terri dead on the sidewalk) and no murder scenes. It scares you psychologically, it makes you fearful of people who don’t seem scary at all. Unlike most horror movies, the cast was made up of actors who were already well known for being great actors. Ruth Gordon (Minnie) was in numerous movies and tv shows, but her best known role was as a wild old lady in the 1971 comedy/drama “Harold & Maude, another film you guys would love.
John Lennon was a fan of the book and the movie “Rosemary’s Baby”, he and his wife moved into a huge apartment on the 6th floor of The Dakota that faced Central Park West and 72nd Street. They moved in in 1973 and on December 8, 1980 John was shot 5 times by a crazy fan outside the huge entranceway on 72 Street (right near where Terri fell to her death) and was raced to Roosevelt hospital but it was too late.
You guys need to watch “Rosemary’s Baby” when you’re alone with no distractions, because it’s full of details you missed the first time. The book is also excellent and still in print, and it explains a lot of things that the movie didn’t have time to (like Rosemary’s hallucinations and dreams).
Excelllllleeentttt comment!! This is full of the kind of information that I enjoy finding out, so thank you. You are so right about the difference between watching a movie or show for the channel and watching privately (in silence lol) at home. I do all the editing for our videos, and I already noticed multiple things that we either missed or sounded different in an alternate context.
The absence of gore is irrelevant. What makes it a great film is a solid script and a great cast.
@@Col_Fragg Not quite irrelevant, it'd been a different movie with it it was luckily much too classy to include any.
Btw, the actor (and real life actor lol) who's later on the phone with Rosemary, the one who lost his part (and Guy got the part instead), because he woke up and ''suddenly got'''blind, is actually Tony Curtis.
Get outta here!! That’s cool. I told Marc this too. Thank you
My daughter was stillborn fullterm in 2008 and my milk still came in. I assumed that they were having her express milk to keep from getting engorged or an infection while taking the pill to dry up. They don't do pills for that anymore, but I took it in 1987 when I gave a baby up for adoption.
Probably the most well constructed horror film ever.
When David referenced "Things Rememberd" I laughed so hard. Old people yelling 'Hail Satan' is creepy as hell. The woman who played "Laura Louise' (the knitting buddy) was openly gay and had been so, publicly, since the 1930s. She had a fling with Tallulah Bankhead when she worked as Tallulah's personal assistance back in the day. As for the ending--I don't feel it was 'unresolved' at all. Rosemary comes to terms with the fact that she has to be a mother to this baby. Another fun one, glad you enjoyed.
Patsy Kelly plays Laura Louise.
This is a movie you have to watch a few times to see some of the details. Before the "conception" they are carrying her through that closet into the next apartment. The dream she had in the begining, its the voices of Castevets through the wall were discussing the girl that died. She wasnt "open mindwd" qnd jumped out of the window when she found out she what they wanted. Also notice Guy gets the acting job the next day after his first dinner with the Castevets.
"I told you not to tell her; I told you she wouldn't be open-minded!"
Based on the novel by Ira Levin - a huge best seller. Mia Farrow received a best actress Oscar nomination, and Ruth Gordon won Best Supporting Actress.
Mia Farrow did not receive (bur should have) a nomination. I just watched a video about horror Oscar snubs that includes this. Everyone thinks she did because she so should have.
@@HuntingVioletsMia Farrow was married to Frank Sinatra at the time who was against her doing movies, but she went ahead anyway, and he served her the divorce papers on set. There are rumours that he made sure she wasn’t nominated.
She is so smart to think of using the Scrabble pieces to work out the anagram.
I've never hated a male character as much as I hated her husband!! Bastard!! 😂 I was cracking up about y'all just loving those old neighbors at first knowing who they really were.😂 Don't know if y'all ever watched any Andy Griffith, which I LOVE, but one of the witches was the lady who played Clara, Aunt Beas bestie! That's what disturbed me the most!! 🤣 Fun reaction from my favorite reaction channel!! ❤️💯👍
You should see Charles Boyer in "Gaslight"!
And Percy from The Green Mile.
OMG Clara!!! So I did not watch a lot of Andy Griffith, but I've seen enough to remember her. I didn't place her in the moment, but you sure are right lol. And yeah!! The old couple in this is like the dog at the beginning of The Thing haha. "No don't shoot the dog!" (30 min later) "Kill it. Kill it with fire." Same with the Castevets: "What a cool old couple! I bet they're going to be great neighbors." (30 min later) "Get a gallon of holy water and a Super Soaker gun."
This is one of my favorite horror movies. I'm glad you guys are you reacting to it. You should check out The Skeleton Key and Trick R' Treat.
I’ve seen (and LOVE) Trick r Treat, but I don’t think Marc has. Trick r Treat is already on my running list of possible movies for the channel, but I’ll add Skeleton Key too :) Thank you!!
Yes, on Skeleton Key. I feel like people sleep on it.
It's another that gets better on a rewatch.
The movie doesn’t have an open ended finale lMO. She’ll love her baby no matter what. The story is told beautifully here, no jump scares needed.
Exterior shots were made at the Dakota. All the interiors were made in studio. Polanski once said the interiors of the building were not “dark” enough for the movie’s atmosphere.
Fun fact: Donald Baumgart, the actor who went blind, was played by Tony Curtis.
You should do the original _Stepford Wives_ too, also based on a novel by Ira Levin. You can see some similar themes there.
Speaking of Levin, his other classic story The Boys From Brazil (1978) is also worth seeing.
Everybody loves Ruth Gordon as Minnie, and she is great, but I really think Sidney Blackmer as Roman is just incredible.
There is a lot of movie trivia written about this movie. Worth searching out. A great movie in all aspects.
Watching with you guys was such fun.
I adored this movie when I was younger. Bonded with my boss at NBC about it. We thought it was very Hitchcock and loved speculating on the symbolism and metaphors. (Show biz, amirite?)
That said, I went through a long period where I could not watch it without feeling a lot of stuff. I think I have mentioned before how hard my journey to have a baby was.
11 pregnancies and only one live birth of my amazing little guy.
I can attest to the hearing your baby cry phenomenon after a stillborn. And post partum psychosis.
I mean thats not what happened here, but why auduences at the time would easily buy Rosemary as an unreliable narrator. Certainly, why Charles Grodin turned her over even if he wasnt in on it. Add in feelings about women, even married women enjoying sex and how the general public viewed drugs. My physician grandad spoke about even one toke of pot giving you visions like her hazy night.
( but bring on the three martini lunch 🍸🍸🍸😉)
Juxtaposewith that era's counter cultures distrust and unmasking of "safe" institutions of authority. Of prescribed roles.
It's interesting.
So over the years a fun viewing exercise is to watch from different points of view. Who is the reliable narrator?
Someone once suggest that substitute the baby being the devils baby with being told you had a specisl needs baby circa '68.
As a mom of a non verbal, autistic kiddo - this interpretation has hit home and been food for thought. Not demonizing special needs or anything but I can say that the intensity of my love and devotion to my baby from the get go... he could have cloven hoofs and I would have proudly polished them.😂
Then again I get Cersei loving Joffrey and trying to make him the best little sociopath he can be.
But it raised the question of could you love and accept your child no matter what unexpected condition they are born with?
Loved your reaction, M&D. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.b
I mean let's face it, your comments are always great and insightful, but wow, this is one of your best ♥️ I appreciate you being so open an honest. You know these kind of connections are what ended being my unexpected favorite thing about the channel. So thank you again, my friend :)
This was a really great film that I ended up enjoying even more the second time around while I was editing the reaction. As always you included some excellent food for thought. Thank you :)
Two things. I had my head down for a split second and was totally caught off guard by the "Candle Light Frights" title card and music stab that I jumped, thanks for that. Also, when Marc casually but genuinely annoyed said "really girl" as she spilled the Scrabble pieces was incredible and I really felt that. As always, you two are awesome!
Hahahaha glad I could catch you with the Candle Light Frights ;) Marc says that all the time ,btw, but to literally anything. (Dog knocks over her food bowl) "Really girl?" (Doorknob catches his jacket) "Really girl?" lol
Aw, one of my all-time favorites! This was a great reaction, the best I've seen to this movie actually!!
'SSUP! 🤙Such an iconic movie with creepy suspense.
I love that we have easier access to films online today; when I was a kid we had to wait until something came on one of the major networks and this movie would never have been shown due to its content, so I did not watch it until recently. I watch reactions so that I can get additional insights and you both bring a lot to the table. Happy Halloween!
I often go as Ruth Gordon in her "do rag" or great hat for Halloween. Not many get it anymore but those who do...😂 always get a kick and an extra fireball shot in their goodie bag.
(I do a pretty good impression of her. I once roped a kid into being my Harold for a contest. We didnt win but he did. 😉)
Imo, one of the most perfect movies ever made. And Ruth Gordon as ''Minnie Castevet'' is one of my favorite performances by a female actress, she's a riot! You also have to see her in ''Harold & Maude'' (1971) by Hal Ashby (quite an underrated director, but made some of the best movies in the 1970s): ''The Landlord'' (1970), ''The Last Detail'' (1973), ''Shampoo'' (1975), ''Bound For Glory'' (1976), ''Coming Home'' (1978), ''Being There'' (1979), the latter and ''The Last Detail'' are both of my favorite movies of all time. and highly recommended as Movie Reaction (including ''Harold and Maude'' & ''Shampoo'').
Have you seen her in where’s papa? She really was a treasure.
Thank you so much!! I’m familiar with Harold & Maude but haven’t seen it, and I totally forgot about Shampoo! All I know about that one is Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn. Thanks again
@@DavidvsFilm you probably meant Warren Beatty lol
@@peterengelen2794 Yes!! Thank you! Guess I still had Mia Farrow on the brain ;) (corrected)
Gordon is also in the 1976 sequel Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby. She's excellent in her two Clint Eastwood movies, her appearance on Columbo and My Bodyguard (1980).
Rosemary's Baby theme song was done by Mia Farrow.
Also, Mia Farrow was involved with Frank Sinatra at the time. He hated she was doing this movie and wanted her to choose, either him or the movie. She was so heartbroken she cut off her hair because Sinatra liked it so much.
Her younger sister actress Tisa Farrow died earlier this month.
The old woman that you liked 9:29 in this was in another really good movie. It's called Harold and Maude from 1963i believe it was. You really need to check out this quirky dromedy
YESSSS thank you!!! I knew I had seen her face somewhere! I haven’t seen Harold & Maude, but back at my old college, I had classes in the theater building, and there were all these movie posters in the hallway. One of them was Harold & Maude with her and the guy on it. Thank you again- mystery solved!
You really must watch Harold and Maude! I was sooo in love with the Jaguar "hearse" and the word "Yearse"
"Your hearse?"
"Yearse." 😅
The ending is masterful.
This film is so brilliant to me. I watch it at least once every couple of years. It’s like visiting an old friend every time .
I love and adore it. Not for the (lack of) scares. But For the incredible ATMOSPHERE. Exquisitely shot in a dreamy, bygone New York of old at the famed and doomed Dakota, every single frame tells a story., It builds atmosphere through an incredible score, the actors expressions, the writing, and the brilliant way it’s shot. For instance, It starts in the open air, then in the garden. By the end, the apartment itself seems to be closing in on Rosemary, as she’s hunted through the rooms, terrified and unfortunately going into labor.
The real horror in this film isn’t actually the witches or the devil. It’s the horrors of pregnancy and the dismissal of a woman’s rights to control her own body. Even when it comes her own husband. It’s about being trapped, with no way out, no one believes you and no one coming to help you. It’s about betrayal from someone you love and thought you could trust. Speaking of, that ahole Guy is actually the real villain here. And the performances? STELLAR. In fact, the elderly woman who played Mini Castavette? She won the Oscar for her performance in this film. A rare feet for a horror movie.
Really enjoyed your reaction, take care!
Thank you so much for this amazing comment!! Specifically I wanted to point out that You perfectly wrote what I was feeling about the aesthetic, the atmosphere. Totally agree. Thank you again! :)
Charles Grodin said people used to come up to him on the street, and, instead of asking for an autograph, would yell at him for giving Rosemary up to the coven. (I think Dr. Hill thought Rosemary was mentally ill, so he called her regular doctor or maybe Guy.)
Right?
After the original Exorcist, this movie freaked me out in my youth
As far as I know Guy/Cassavettes was a highly-respected independent film-director back in the day, husband of actress Gena Rowlands. With her and a great "Columbo" Peter Falk as the leading parts he had directed "A woman under the influence" for example. An outstanding movie and an absolutely shining performance of Rowlands about a mother and wife on and over the edge of a nervous/psychic breakdown due to expectations and demands from the people surrounding her - and from herself! The opposite of a Hollywood-film.
Regarding the actors one has to give Ruth Gordon as the nosy Minnie some respect. Who would raise suspicions of a secret cult towards an old woman as chatty, vulgar and superficial as her, come on. She also stars in "Harold and Maude" - a movie grotesque with her playing the old, joyful and life-cheering Maude in a love relationship with the very young Harold, who likes to terrorize his surroundings and family with gross, faked suicides and mutilations, thereby causing affairs with pretty young women initiated by his mother to end abruptely and driving around in a Jaguar-E-type converted into a hearse. A hilarious masterpiece you will love.
The hormones might have something to do with her deciding to be his mother, too.
If she had eaten the whole mousse dessert, she probably wouldn't have caught on as quickly, if at all.
So so so love the Candlelight Fright series! Creep film, even all these years later ❤
Hello!!!!! OMG I’m actually going to miss the Candlelight Frights lol. I really enjoyed that format, and I think we should do it again next year ;) What do you think?
“To see her baby daddy and ask for some money” 😅😂😂😂😂 I’m so done
The ending leaves you wanting to see more. But that’s the clever bit, it asks you what you would do in her situation. It lingers with you.
Yes!!! Exactly what you said. That’s how we felt. Yes, thank you!
Popular books preceded the most popular movies back then. A lot of stuff gets cut ----- Like her closing scene with the baby was fast, but not as abrupt as the movie version.
Mia Farrow was a TV actress and substantially-younger wife of Frank Sinatra before this movie, so the gossip around her drew even more attention to this movie.
I love the snarky, sarcastic, and droll, and you guys are quick and hilarious. I love how you also appreciate and respect the movie you're watching. This is a great one and Ruth Gordon is a favorite of mine because of this movie. You'll probably get other requests for Harold and Maude, which is totally worth the watch. Also, I was wondering if either of you has seen the 1980 movie Resurrection, with Ellen Burstyn and Sam Shepard. I love that movie so much and would love to see your reactions to it. They did a remake for TV in 1999 with Dana Delany. Don't bother with that one. 🍸
Love Resurrection!
Ruth Gordon was also a screenwriter and novelist.
I'm watching this reaction for the second time and you commented about Rosemary's accent.., well, her mother was famous actress Maureen O'hara.. she was Irish born.. and I'm sure Mia was well-traveled and her accent was a genuine collaboration
Well first of all- BLESS YOU FOR WATCHING IT A SECOND TIME! Greatly appreciated ♥️ Second, you are completely right! I’d forgotten that she was her daughter. (Though small, respectful correction- I’m sure you meant Maureen O’Sullivan. Maureen O’Hara was also Irish and in a John Candy film that I personally loved as a kid called Only the Lonely, among other more notable movies 😁) Thank you again!
your fascination with Ruth Gordon leads me to ask are you familiar with Harold & Maude (1971), you will definitely fall in love with her in that movie
The woman who used to have the apartment grew herbs and Minnie took her herbs after, I think. She was killed because she found out what the coven was doing and she couldn't go along with it. That's what the letter in her apartment was about, maybe a draft of one she ended up sending.
I love Ruth Gordon. she's great in Harold & Maude (1971)
I’m familiar with that one but haven’t seen it. Thanks for the recommendation!
Lived your reactions. I & my mom were pissed off with the ending. Especially with the husband! My mom was like he sold her to the Devil.
Rosemary being an herb I NEVER thought of that nor of the former tenant and the connection.
I always thought of the Rosemary as Mary mother of Jesus and rose as in rosary.
Thank you so much!! And I had not thought of Mary and Rosary. Makes sense too. :)
you guys have the best reactions! so good 👻🎃
They are fun!!! 🍸
I thought of it this way. She was told 'You DONT HAVE TO JOIN if you don't want to'....Great....so that means she can OPENLY BAD MOUTH what they do AS MUCH AS SHE WANTS and they can't do SHIAT cause she is THE MOTHER! 😁 She is UNTOUCHABLE!
One of my favorite movies! I watch it a couple times every year. I read the book & the sequel Son of Rosemary. Both books were good too.
I can't wait for your crapping in the dark, guys! Would be so exciting, oh, my god!!!
If you love Ruth Gordon, be sure to watch Harold and Maude. She's wonderful in it. (So is Bud Cort.) I think you (and Marc) would think it's a hoot. Loved watching with both of you. 💗Take care.
Colour me intrigued. 😮
And wooooo! For Sat upload!
Haha thanks!!
They didn't tell pregnant women not to drink when this movie was made. Even now, a little wine is allowable (talk to your doctor first, though).
In the novel, which the film is remarkably close to, Rosemary realises that the baby is oarr hunan and decides to raise the child in the hope of working on that. The book was released just after Time Magazine ran a front page titled "Is God Dead" so the idea of religion/devil worship was a controversial one for the time. This is also why they ask her about her religion at the dinner table scene, and she says she is non praticing but Catholic, which is why they mention the popes visit (a real event when the novel was written) and why he appears in the dream sequence.
Yay...my guys! 😊💚Hope you both have an excellent Halloween! I have already eaten my fill of Reese's pumpkin cups and Nerds candy corn!
I poopooed this movie for such a long time until I finally gave it a chance and watched it (I used to have a prejudice towards older movies)....I then realized there's a reason why it's so iconic!
Ooooh speaking my language with that candy!! 😁🎃
Yeah I’m not against the older movies, I just never know what to expect. All I knew about this one going in was the pop culture knowledge, so I expected a lot darker and evil the whole way through. Instead it really felt more to me like Marc said, somewhat Hitchcockian.
Hitchcock-esque indeed amigo! It's classy horror.😂😂
That is in fact the Dakota building where John Lennon was shot.
If you love Ruth Gordon, give Harold and Maude a shot.
6:17 What kind of Christmas Carols were those? What a great movie.
Hahaha for real! Silver Hells, I think.
In 1976, there was a TV movie sequel, titled LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENED TO ROSEMARY'S BABY, which picks up 8 years after the first film. We learn that Guy took off for a successful career in Hollywood, while Rosemary and Adrian stayed behind with the coven. Rosemary (played by Patty Duke) absconds with the boy prior to his 8th birthday party in an effort to prevent the coven from performing some sort of ritual on him
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It's been year since the viewed the film, so most of the details are fuzzy ... somehow a hooker played by Tina Louise (Ginger from Gilligan's Island) offers them shelter, then somehow convinces Rosemary to hide out in an abandoned bus. Suddenly, the bus powers up and takes off (without a driver) and we never learn of Rosemary's fate.
The film then skips ahead to show a now adult Adrian, going by the name Andrew, being a trouble maker with the local police ... and honestly, the rest of the film was so boring, I can't even recall how it ends.
The film was poorly written but Patty Duke's (brief) screen time and the return of Ruth Gordon as Minnie Castevet are about the only things making this dud of celluloid worth watching at all.
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Ira Levin, the author of the ROSEMARY'S BABY novel, published a sequel novel in 1997, titled SON OF ROSEMARY, which completely ignores the event of the 1976 TV movie, and serves as a direct sequel to the original film.
It is reveled that the year is now 1999 and Adrian is a world famous new age spiritual guru. The coven had placed a spell over Rosemary in 1973, putting her in a coma to prevent her from running off with Adrian. As the novel beings, she has awakened upon the death of the last member of the coven.
After being reunited with Adrian, she herself becomes a celebrity of sorts, all the while, Adrian attempts to reassure her that he's rejected the coven's evil influence and wants to bring spiritual enlightenment to the world.
There are a few odd interactions between Rosemary and Andy (bordering on incest) and on new year's eve, a deadly virus is unleased upon the planet and Satan emerges to drag Rosemary to Hell. She then wakes up to find herself 33 years in the past (prior to getting pregnant), laying in bed next to Guy at their apartment in the Bramford building. It's left up to the reader to decide if Rosemary simply dreamt the events of the 1967 and 1997 novels or had actually experienced a premonition of future events.
When my husband and I were dating in early 1969, we went to the drive-in where this was playing. We were making out, so I never saw it. So creepy!
Hahaha I love this story!! Thanks for sharing it.
Happy Scary Movie Saturday, David and Marc! 🎃👻🎃👻
Great reaction! 😊
This is a great horror movie classic. It's one that I always have to watch once during this spooky season.
Since you've already watched the first "Zombieland", for next year or for anytime I highly recommend the 2019 sequel "Zombieland: Double Tap". And for some non-scary movies, I very highly recommend the 2013 "Now You See Me" and the 2016 sequel "Now You See Me 2".
Looking forward to the next reaction. 😊
Happy Saturday!! 🎃🎃🎃 Thank you :) Ok so let me tell you- I am woefully behind on sequels, but I will watch Zombieland Double Tap come hell or high water. Especially because I enjoyed the original so much. I had it on one of the polls this month, but sadly it didn’t make it. Thanks for the heads up on Now You See Me also!
one of my very favourite movies. ❤
I have a feeling Guy outsmarted himself. He probably strung Roman along for a laugh and then went Holy Shit! This shit's for real!! And Roman probably reminded him of Terry's fate should be attempt to back out. He probably let Guy know that Rosemary would be included in the punishment/death sentence.
This conjecture is based on human nature and observing Guy before the devil came calling. He was never grumpy, even when Rosemary would list his c.v. as if she were ashamed of Guy not being a name yet.
And Rosemary and Dr. Hill? Huh? Who on earth would believe Rosemary's story? Hill figured he was doing everyone a favor by not sending Rosemary to the Looney bin.
But can you imagine the power and perks of being the Queen Mother Of Hell? She'd be the most powerful person on earth!
Definitely watch Harold and Maude
That's why I don't leave any of my stuff at work.
OMG - What a great film. At the time we knew the ending of the film and so we knew what was going on from the start. That didn't make it any less suspenseful by any means. A great movie but not one for a casual rewatch by any means. I think the ending is clear, her mother's love for her child overrides her revultion of the child. And hey, may as well be on the "right" side as the child grows up! Take care and be well.
What person who wanted to change his name would use an anagram? He would only do that if he still wanted to feel a connection to his real name.
There is a sequel..."Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby" But it was a TV movie and missed the mark completely. Wonder if the new season of American Horror Story, that feels like a remake of this, can be even worse.
I have the utmost faith that it can.
I LOVE your reactions. I've been drinking herbal tea but I think I'll switch to a cocktail! I love looking at the clothes and decor when I watch films like this one. Her dresses! Trivia for you but I'm sure you're aware: Frank Sinatra left her when she agreed to do this picture (he didn't want her to). Years later, she alluded that her son, Ronan, was fathered by Sinatra, not ol' Woody. Anyhoo, please consider The Others with Nicole Kidman. Sooo good. Dog Fight with River Phoenix and Lili Taylor is excellent too. I think it's Brendan Fraser's first movie. Looking forward to your next reaction; love from Toronto Canada!
YES!! The Others is AMAZING!!
Thin walls, the spookiest part of the whole movie.
Ooooh true.
A classic and one of Polanskis best (my opinion). Happy halloween loves ❤️
I will say, most women do gain weight with pregnancy, with my Daughter, I lost weight. I was so sick. The only week I could actually eat was on our cruise to St. Thomas, where we got married. I was 4.5 months pregnant then. I ended up gaining 11 lbs, and my Daughter was 7 of it. I did gain 20 with my Son. (Hell, now I eat dinner and a piece of pie and gain 20 lbs)😂
Awww.... my mom lost weight too.
And only gained about 15 when I was born. Almost 8 pounds of that was me apparently. I look at pics until that last month it just looked like she had a big lunch at Chipotle.
I hear ya about gained weight now.
Was it the guys glove he was missing? The old ear pierced guy might have taken it, or the husband to help put a spell on the guy, who ended up in the coma??? Just a thought
Guy took it when he showed up right after Roman then gave it to the Castevets when he “went out for ice cream” after Rosemary told him that Hutch wanted to meet with her privately the next day. Roman wouldn’t have known what glove in the closet belonged to Hutch or to Guy, so it was Guy who took it when he immediately went to the closet after walking in.
The author of the book must have also been unhappy with his ambiguous ending, because he did come back and write a sequel that follows up on Rosemary and her son, years later.
I agree with Mark
My fav movie
Guy is the king of gaslighting. It’s infuriating! But I love this movie and the book is even better! It’s in my top 10 favorite books of all time. I highly recommend 🖤
There is a sequel, called LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENED TO ROSEMARY'S BABY. It's "interesting" to say the least.
If you are a fan of Ruth Gordon you should watch Harold and Maude. A dark comedy. Cat Stevens did all the music tracks
I think I need to after loving her in this! And I don’t think anyone has mentioned that about Cat Stevens yet. Cool. I really like Morning Has Broken and Wild World.
....well, there was a tv sequel made in 1976, Look What Happened To Rosemary's Baby.
If you want a resolution to the story, I guess.
Rating classic movies can be an exercise in futility. These movies are still being watched decades after they were made, still eliciting strong reactions.
I prefer just watching a discussion of the film. Imo anyway...
Its so awful how much her husband betrays her...and how she continues to trust him not knowing
Yes!! We couldn’t believe it to the point that we thought we were missing something. It was just incomprehensible that he’d have a part in doing that to her.
She chose to be a mother to her baby 🍼😁 I give it a 9. Ruth Gordon won Best Supporting Actress as Mini Castevett
Yeah, I guessssss :) And well deserved!!
What's unresolved? The ending is pretty conclusive.
Yeah, looking back now and reading the comments, I see what you mean. I guess what I meant is that we don't really know where things go from there. What is to become of the child, and her position with these people, and her husband, does she snap in 24 hours, etc. But I realize now those are questions for additional films, series, etc.; for this film's purposes, it was pretty well wrapped up.
@@DavidvsFilm “Look What’s Happened To Rosemary’s Baby” (1976) is a made-for-TV sequel. Patty Duke, who was in the running for the part originally, takes over the role of Rosemary. The other roles are recast as well. Though the great Ruth Gordon does reprise her role as the villain Minnie Castevet. This film is pretty obscure now. I’m not sure it’s ever been released on home video. Though it can be found on the internet. I’m actually preparing to watch it soon. I caught it being rerun on the Late Show one night but for whatever reason, I wasn’t able to finish it. Probably past my bedtime or something.
I'm really surprised that you recognized John and Jackie Kennedy as some sort of hallucinations during Rosemary's "dream". No one on UA-cam has ever mentionned it before in the videos I've watched, as their names were only mentionned in the book.
Haha, well I wasn’t really sure what was happening, so I wasn’t positive, but it was actually the dress and the hair on “Jackie” that tipped me off.
Edit: But you’ll have to explain the symbolism to me, because that definitely went right over my head lol.
@@DavidvsFilm I don't think there is an official answer to the symbolism, but I have my theory : the yacht she's on was John Kennedy's property. In the book, we know that the women on it are Jackie, John's sister Patricia and Sarah Churchill (one of Winston's daugthers). Later we see Jackie again, and finally the Pope Paul VI with a ring on his hand that looks like the necklace given by the Castevets. My theory is that all these people were famous or talked about in the medias back in 1965 (or around that time) and it was kinda reassuring for Rosemary to see them instead of seeing who were really with her : the coven's old and naked witches.
Wish more reactors would watch this movie.
In the book Rosemary did think about k!LL!ng the baby. She considered grabbing it out of the cradle & jumping out the window.
I think this movie is more frightening than the Exorcist. If your child is possessed by Evil you fight to protect your child but if your child is Evil, what do you do? Protect your child & let him destroy the world? Protect the world by destroying your child? If your child is Evil & you know he will bring destruction down on humanity you have to choose between your child, who you love, & the rest of the world. An impossible choice for anyone.
It’s interesting that you mention her grabbing the baby and jumping out the window because that was the alternate ending that I told Marc I would have liked. And especially because it would have felt it was foreshadowed by Terry, etc. Thanks so much for your comment!
This movie/book is a great window into a different time when options for women were limited, like having your own money, bank account, etc, as women were still being treated as their husband’s property. So this adds to the anxiety of feeling trapped with nowhere to go. Furthermore, if my memory serves me correctly, in the novel, Rosemary’s own family stopped talking to her, as they didn’t approve of her marrying a non-Catholic. So she was stuck.
Ahhhh gotcha, thank you. Yeah, I can't even imagine. AND you're carrying Satan's baby. Rosemary definitely has it the worst of her friends, I'd say ;P
That was a fantastic (and hilarious!) reaction!!!! Ruth Gordon is a WILD woman, you should read a bit about her and go look up some interviews with her, an incredible lady and a REAL character! Also her best friend was played by Patsy Kelly, one of the earliest openly gay actors in Hollywood, and when I say that I mean in the 1930s, talking to the press.
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The overall feeling in this reminds me of Mother!, but Mother! ramps it up to 11.
Closet space is most important in an apartment, lol. My photo equipment takes up 2/3 of ours. Yummy, children, goes well with Baby Ray's. Why are they so boring? Leave the lights on! Put on a show, lol. I hope that if I'm ever stuck in situations that no one will believe, I'll have enough sense to not sound crazy lol.
Satan offers power for your soul, makes sense that the powerful would be the Satanists lol. If the first infant sacrifice didn't get you what you wanted why would you keep going lol
I'm glad you two watched this so I don't have to. Way too creepy for me!
The only thing I knew about this movie was Roman Polanski directed it, thanks to the reference in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. "Who I got living next door to me? The director of Rosemary's f-ing Baby, that's who!"
Hahaha that's awesome. And speaking of awesome, that's why we love you so much- bc even though this is NOT your kind of movie, you still left us a comment on the video anyway ♥️
WTH? Unresolved? The Anti-Christ WAS BORN..... 🤣, we already know what he does. If we want to watch that we have to watch The Omen.
Polanski wanted Robert Redford but couldn't get him
Oh wow. Cassavetes did a great job, but I could totally see Robert Redford in that role as well. Thanks for the trivia!
Mia Farrow was married to Frank Sinatra at the time who was against her doing movies, but she went ahead anyway, and consequently he served her the divorce papers on set. There are rumours that he made sure she wasn’t nominated for an academy award.
Whaaaat! I didn't know that about the Academy Award! Wow.
Polanski had Mia Farrow cross the street like that, telling her nobody would run over a pregnant woman. A great director but an awful person in so many ways.
I Watched this last night 😅
Oh really?? Perfect timing then. Haha