Rosemarys Baby Digital

I love Halle Berry as Rosemary and she really made it believable.

I thought this was the old version of Rosemary’s Baby. This one takes place in Paris and I couldn’t follow a lot of it. And I hate movies you have to read.

Very good

This version makes good use of Zoe Saldana, Carole Bouquet and Jason Isaacs. Not especially well done or interesting otherwise.

ROSEMARYS BABY - the original 1968 film version directed by Roman Polanski - was smart, stylish, sardonic, sensational and superb - all the things, indeed, that this needless remake is not. This allegedly modern retelling is, in fact, what it actually is: and that is a TV movie fatiguingly drawn out to accommodate its every-few-minutes commercial breaks - so, therefore, it is laden with all the myriad and predictable cliff-hanging moments indicative of those coming commercial breaks. Of course, there are no actual commercials during the film on this DVD - except for the irritating previews one must either watch or skip through to get to the main event - but the rapid succession of fade-to-blacks are the fingerprints of this productions primary commercial function. In short, it is dragged out and padded and instead of keeping viewers on the edge of their seat, it is equally likely to cause one to snuggle back in their seat - and possibly even doze off. It isnt that this take on Ira Levins classic is awfully bad - it just isnt terribly good. In listening to the director and star/producer Zoe Rosemary Saldana talk of their undertaking and the need to offer this day and age a newer perspective on Rosemarys character just made me laugh - for there is nothing in this vision and version of Rosemary that isnt in the character as first exquisitely embodied by Mia Farrow - and, in all honestly, there is a far amount less. Also postulated - especially by director Agnieszka Holland - is that in her version she tried to offer up not so much a horror tale, but a psychological one wherein viewers never quite know what is real or what is merely imagined by Rosemary in her eventually pregnant and possibly paranoidal state. But this is hogwash! Yes, indeed, such a perspective can be most definitely applied to the Polanski version - until the last, chilling moments. However, we see the Devil in the first few minutes in Hollands film. We also are privy to a series of gratuitously violent rub-outs of various characters who get too close to the truth of the very-real witchery involved. And this body-count of deaths-by-Devil are so imitative in style and feel to the killings in THE OMEN, that this miniseries seems like a weird hybrid of both ROSEMARYS BABY and THE OMEN. One saving grace: Jason Isaacs (playing the Satan sycophant) is always a pleasurable pain to watch, ever since his evil incarnate turn in THE PATRIOT. French actress Carole Bouquet as his sincerely hypocritical wife is also a delight. But Patrick Adams doesnt fit in John Cassavetes shoes and hardly seems to be wearing any all his own, and Zoe Saldana is, well, no Mia Farrow. And not that she should be - except, in not bringing anything new and unique to the role herself, well, comparisons are inevitable. Curiously, on the back of the DVD we are told in fairly large letters without quotation marks or critical attribution that ZOE SALDANA HYPNOTIZES. But she really doesnt. And how curious that nowhere on the DVD casing are any of the others actors (with the exception of Patrick Adams) even mentioned, nor is the director or any of the production team. Well, with four Saldanas as producers - including the films star - I suspect these omissions may very well have been by commission. One good thing: given the coming Halloween season my appetite has been whetted to watch ROSEMARYS BABY again - the Polanski version, that is.

Modernized version of the old movie. It works focusing on young Rosemary Woodhouses suspicions that her neighbors may belong to a Satanic cult who are hell bent on getting one thing: the baby she is carrying.Still like the original better

I had taped the first half but did get the second I love the show

Pretty good❣️

Zoe carries this remake quite well, the rest of the cast are all properly off/creepy. One off for.just average intensity/atmosphere. Enjoy!

Commits the ultimate sin... it is BORING! The Roman Polanski version is a classic. I watched this hoping it would answer some lingering questions I had of the original, but found myself fast forwarding through most. Complete waste of time.