Rosemarys Baby Digital

Remakes have a place in film and television history, but this remake could not hold a candle to the original masterpiece, either the book by Ira Levin or the film by Roman Polanski. Aspects of the original book and film are clearly dated today, and this remake brought things up to speed as best they could. However, where this falls short is putting a lot of things before you rather than the subtle nuances of the original. Plus, the miniseries died in television 25+ years ago, and giving this the two part treatment of two nights on television really was not necessary. Rosemary Woodhouse (played well by a stronger yet still dainty Zoe Saldana) and her husband Guy have moved to Paris, France as her husbands work has taken them to a university where he hopes to work. One day Rosemary intercepts a mugger who dropped a wallet. Inside the wallet, Rosemary finds the owner, Margo Castevet (updated from the older sounding Minnie). To thank her for being so kind, Margo invites Rosemary and Guy to a party, and from there their friendship begins. In this version, Rosemary is not dismayed by the sudden and generous friendship of the Castevets, but she sees them as equals rather than friendly older people. She finds it a bit odd, but dismisses it ultimately as their new friends being helpful and genuinely interested in her and Guy. Suddenly, Guys rival for the first position chair at the university dies a horrible death, and he is now in the front running for department chair. Things are all of a sudden coming up roses for them and Rosemary is eager to get pregnant and start their family. When she shares this with Margo and Roman, they are caring for her night and day, so excited for her baby to be born. Little does she know that she has been tricked into having the devils child, as Margo and Roman are witches (as well as their friends who are all part of a coven) and are bringing Satan back to the world. The acting was good in this movie, but they added in a few things in for modernization. When Rosemary and Guy learn of the Trench sisters who lived in the apartment building years before practicing cannibalism, we see it rather than are left to imagine. The friends who come to terrible ends who are trying to help her see the truth (ex. Hutch) are seen rather than left in the distance. While all the older people in the witch coven in the original are grey haired, wrinkled and dress out of date, the witch coven tries to make themselves look as young and chipper as possible without looking like residents of an assisted living facility. In general, people do not like to look and act their age anymore. They add in a touch of homosexuality (as its cute and trendy for women to do so now), to see the evil Satan at the moment of conception, and pay homage to Mia Farrows pixie cut when Zoe gets a horrible haircut (which looks terrible on her but gave Mia a certain edge about her at the time.) And, partially due to the fact that the original film was made in the 1960s and the technology did not exist at the time, we never saw the horrible creature that the baby is. In this version, we see the creature, which is a normal looking baby with magnetic blue eyes like his father, Satan. In this version, Rosemary still accepts the fact that this child is hers. I was hoping for something drastically different, but what mother could resist her child? I will give compliments to the fact that this adaptation managed to stay true to the old school kind of horror feeling. Even though full frontal violence is seen, we still get the sense that they are coming for her and her paranoia is real. Moving the scene to Paris, in that sense, was a welcome change from the original, in that in the original you wondered why she didnt go to a friend once she realized everyone was in on it, but it made more sense since she is completely isolated from friends and family who might help her. It will pass a lonely night or rainy afternoon. Have fun with it.

The movies is great at first I was confused about what was going on but I watched it over and it was the good mystery. The movie had me up in my seat the whole time.

I really enjoyed this movie very much. It was nice to have a modern take on the original. Dont get me wrong, the classic version is the best, but this movie is also good. It had diversity. French culture, and a black and white couple. It was easy to hate the bad guys in the original, but it was harder for me to hate the bad guys in this one. Roman made sure that Guy showed Rosemary the support she needed, and Margot was such a class A manipulator coated in sumptuous caramel. The acting was more realistic, and better in some areas. The characters seemed more real. Guy clearly held on to a lot of guilt, versus the original Guy portraying a heartless bastard- but of course we all know that John Cassavetes was luscious, yet excellent at portraying a bastard in some roles. I felt that the modern Rosemary was more trusting and easily sucked into the deception, and then it was too late. However, I felt that the modern Rosemary should have taken longer to piece together the puzzle. She had it pieced together in about ten minutes, whereas the original Rosemary really entertained us while she took some time to piece everything together, more suspense. I was expecting to see a mutated demon-from-hell baby, but was surprised to see an angelic baby that could be featured in a Huggies commercial. Overall, 4 stars.

As a stand alone movie, I enjoyed it.

I love this movie!!!

Zoe Saladona was a great choice for a leading actress.

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.

I thought i ordered WHat happened to Rosemarys baby

Does what it says on the tin!

So says the female protagonist. Terrible letdown vs. the 1968 original. Reinforces the cliche that remakes are not a good idea. Nice Paris locales cannot save movie from trite plot and screenplay not well adapted to the novel. The scariest scene is of the apartment handyman scrabbling down a hallway on all fours like a dog.