I hope you all enjoyed the very first Tuesday reaction video!! Tuesday's are going to be mainly for continuing series that I've started (Jumanji, Jurassic Park, the Conjuring, etc.) and Level 5 reaction requests from Patreon! ALSO, side note: I think the craziest part of this reaction is how hard it was to edit down. This is almost as long as my edited down LORD OF THE RINGS reaction (the first one, EXTENDED, by the way) Though this does also contain my longest end discussion to date, which was almost 10 minutes of discussion. But yeah it was so hard to edit down because this movie is so DENSE SO much happened in this 2 hour 17 minute movie So much talking and detail While with Lord of the Rings, that was apparent as well, but SO much time was spent showing off scenery and battle scenes, and other conversations that just weren't as super important, ones that can be appreciated but omitted from the reaction video It's just crazy how two movies, one being almost half as long as the other, can be almost the same length in my edited down reaction versions! RANT OVER but yeah I just thought that was fun!
you really got the story 100%-good job--you know that Apartment Building in NYC is where John Lennon lived and was shot and killed in 1981....creepy......Guy is truly one of the worst characters
Rosemary was a victim all throughout, but at the very end, in that crazy room with the satanists, she recognizes there’s nothing to be done - and that she’s now the boss.
This was Roman Polanski's first film based on someone else's work, and he actually didn't realize he was allowed to make changes from the novel. He only found out when he called the author saying he was having trouble finding a particular magazine issue that was referenced, forcing the author to awkwardly explain he just made it up. The result is perhaps the most faithful film adaptation ever made, down to how all the rooms are described.
It’s downright meticulous. In the novel, Rosemary goes to Vidal Sassoon for a haircut, which she mentions in the movie - and Polanski got Vidal Sassoon to come in and trim Mia Farrow’s hair.
@@nemomarcus5784 I don't really give a fuck how hard his childhood was or wasn't. It does not begin to excuse what he did and continues to brag about. I know the holocaust was bad, I know communism is bad. I'm more vocally opposed to that than most people. His pregnant girlfriend was murdered by a cult of smoked out hippy fuck ups. I know. Yet plenty of people managed to live through those things without then raping children. Fuck Roman Polanski. Stop making excuses for shitty people.
"Shut up, you're in Dubrovnik--I don't hear you..." My absolute FAVORITE line of the film. I still yell it out to my best friend when I'm losing an argument. This film is a master class in suspense.
We studied this movie in college and it honestly has so much to it. It preys on the very real and very female specific fear of being pregnant. The horror of being pregnant is that, in many ways, there's just this THING inside you and you are so clueless and helpless about what's going on with your body that you have to rely on other people to tell you what to do. What if the people you're supposed to trust (your doctor, husband, neighbors) didn't have your best interests at heart? Such real and terrifying stuff. This movie takes it to the extreme with Satan worshipping, but the base fear is real. I tell you what, I watched this movie in a class with 20 other girls, and it was WEIRD VIBES walking out of there.
The novel's writer Ira Levin said his initial inspiration was watching The Haunting, where the ghosts are never actually seen, and thought about how that could be taken a step further with the monster being INSIDE the hero.
Well you can take it back to nature in some cases. For male Lions they have to leave for new territory and gain new ground and mating is their whole life and that involves fighting to the death. Lionesses in those areas get pregnant and hunt and raise babies whose girls stay with their moms and aunts forever. Whether you are human or a lion or many other mammals males and females are very different creatures. I guess my point is male or female, being a human, being another mammal, being alive, can be very scary.
Interesting at the college level The Most Precious Gift = Life ,that grows into a beautiful baby full of potential is referred to as a ' Thing " . The person teaching that class has failed miserably !
A young woman being impregnated by pure evil. The involvement of an insane cult. If she'd have died in the end that would have rung a little to closely to the director's real life.
It’s that way in the movie too. The night Rosemary and Guy are making out in their bedroom, you can hear Minnie through the wall saying “In my opinion, I don’t think you should tell her. That’s my opinion.” Then after Terry killed herself you can hear Minnie saying “I told you not to tell her. I told you she wouldn’t be open minded.”
He was all about helping her until she name dropped one of the most expensive, sought after and best MD, in New York. (according to the film) Sometimes, when you are seeking help for paranoia, and people are after you. Less is more. (in fiction)
Hutch is the one who knowingly sacrificed himself to try to save Rosemary; he was familiar with the ways of occult as presented in the film, knew they took his glove, knew they would try to stop him from revealing this knowledge to Rosemary, and lost his life fighting out of a coma just to get the book to her. He’s the hero in the film. His comment “you look awful” was out of concern for her health, not to demean her, and Rosemary took it the way it was meant, everyone else around her had been lying to her telling her she looked fine, when she looked really sick and needed real medical assistance. Rosemary ultimately got the baby she’d been yearning for so she was placated, lost to the materialistic world these people thrive on.
In the end, the baby was still hers. It still grew inside her, she still loved and cared for it for nine months and I think she didn't blame the baby for what it was, that's why she was rocking it at the end. It's totally fucked up, but it might be how maternal instincts work.
What's really irritating about this movie is it shows, accurately, how women were treated back in the 1960s. My mother confirmed to me that if you had a "women's issue" that couldn't be found via physical medical test at the time (like endometriosis for example), it was all in your "pretty little head". No doctor would take you seriously and you genuinely risked getting put on dangerous medicines or sent to a mental asylum for "women's hysteria". My mother and grandmother would ell me how awfully they were treated by medical "professionals" back in those days; even though it still happens to this day, at least women are taken seriously when we say something is wrong. This movie is a great example of showing how the mother's instincts are correct and nobody (even outside of the cult) is willing to listen to her.
Earlier movies always seem to have had more on the line than today’s. The stories are intricate and interwoven and although fantastical and implausible, still not impossible.I don’t remember when the studios stopped trusting us to understand complex movies. They certainly were more raw.
I’ve been a nurse for 28 years. It’s not unusual for a patient to look like they’re getting better right before they die. It happens quite a bit. It’s very strange, and I’m not sure why it happens, but it does.
My mom's a nurse; & I'm a former nurse (now I'm a MD, which is crazy haha) but I remember when I was little that I would see the dying with their loved ones, when they were dying, then they get better, then die. My mom said it's usually because patients become more aware after doses are reduced, which I guess is partly true? but I'm glad some get a chance to say goodbye to their loved ones.
Terri jumped out of the window herself, because she found out she was pregnant with Satan’s baby. They tried it on her first, and it didn’t work out. So they started over with Rosemary.
I don't think she was pregnant. Roman had suggested the whole thing to her and she was horrified. You can hear Roman and Minnie talking through the wall, with Minnie saying Roman shouldn't have told her, that she knew Terri wouldn't be openminded.
The apartment building is The Dakota. John Lennon and Yoko Ono lived there until he was murdered in almost the exact same spot that Terry died. It's really creepy the how the name of the character Roman Castevet echo the names of the director and actor.
I'm ashamed to say I was gleeful at the prospect of seeing you react to this one. It was really at the top of the heap of scary movies when it came out.
The book's author Ira Levin actually wrote a sequel, Son of Rosemary, shortly before his death in 1997. It was universally hated and it's typically believed he did it just to stop the publisher from claiming the rights to the story upon his death and getting someone else to do a cheap cash-in sequel. Still, it's worth at least looking up the plot summary.
John Cassavetes, who played Guy, was also a director, and by all reports he very much disagreed with Polanski's direction in pretty much every scene, and wasn't shy about sharing his opinions on how they should be filmed. I imagine everyone took quite a bit of pleasure filming the scene where Rosemary spits at him.
Why? Cassavetes wasn't hated on the set, he was at loggerheads with Polanski, big difference. Mia Farrow has nothing but nice things to say about Cassavetes, about working with him, and stayed friends with him right until he died. (In fact, Gena Rowlands was working with Mia around the time he passed in "Another Woman"). Love Polanski, but I love Cassavetes just as much, and HIS movie of 1968, "Faces", was just as groundbreaking as "Rosemary's Baby". They had two completely directing styles, big deal. Cassavetes is PERFECT in that role, as he usually was when he acted, I couldn't imagine any other actor in that part.
@Randy White I said he passed AROUND THE TIME of "Another Woman", not before, your reading comprehension is knocking me out. He was extremely sick (in L.A.) while she was shooting "Another Woman" (in NYC), and he died soon after.
I'm really enjoying your movie reactions and pleased to hear you're trying to do more in a week. You have such a natural way about you in front of the camera. It's great to find a reactor that is naturally funny and not "trying" to be funny. You're off the cuff comments are right up my humor alley.
Yay! I'm so glad you're enjoying the reactions! Thank you for the nice compliments too! I'm easing my way into things; since the rest of this month is crazy, I'm doing this Tuesday video, skipping next Tuesday, then doing another the following Tuesday, then going ahead and STARTING starting in September!
this is one of the scariest movies for me. Maybe it's my trust issues. And having everyone around you make you think you're crazy. It's a very real thing.
In 1968 the US was a young country. The baby boomers were 21 years old at their oldest. Old people were viewed with suspicion. 53 years later its the baby boomers who are the old people depicted in the film.
this is my favorite horror film. there's very little blood and guts, with no jump scares, but damn, it's still scary as I''ll get out with brilliant writing about paranoia and gaslighting! plus the casting of golden-hollywood character actors as the cult works beautifully, especially Ruth Godon as Minnie in an Oscar winning performance!
My favorite classic horror movie! The guy who wrote the book this is based on - Ira Levin - also wrote The Stepford Wives, which is another excellent horror story about loss of female autonomy.
The way people react to Guy , the way they despise~ hate him is a testament to John Cassavetes's great acting . Also the people were commenting on her looks out of concern . Her transformation in the movie is pretty dramatic and one of the scenes i remember people talking about when i was child ,was when she was eating the liver raw .
When I first saw it I thought Cassavetes played Guy kind of... boring. But then I realized it was perfect that way. Showing the 'non-entity' Guy really is.. Like in the name 'Guy', like: just some...
@@haps2019 Interesting take on " Guy " In the beginning of the movie we never know whose idea it was to check out The Bramford , when Rosemary tells the super of the building Guy's an actor he responds by saying we've been popular with actors. Later at the first dinner Roman says he's seen Guy's play and knows all about his acting career. So did Guy know from the beginning all about Roman and Minnie Castevets plan all along or did another actor tell Guy they could help him with his career ? little trivia: Maurice Evans who plays Rosemary's friend Hutch is also the same actor who played Dr.Zaius in the Planet of the Apes movies . Both Rosemarys Baby and Planet of the Apes were both released in 1968 .
Mia Farrow had a hard time doing the scene where Rosemary eats liver raw because she is a vet. I don't think it was difficult to film the next scene of her throwing up all that.
The man outside the phone booth was the producer and original director William Castle. The studio wanted a different director so he stepped aside and let Roman Polanski direct it
To be fair, those of us who have survived raising a teen have at one point or another thought ‘Sure- it’s Satan’s spawn… but it’s MY Satan’s spawn.’🤷🏼♀️😂😩 I was far too young to see this 1st run/release, but can remember when we were able to- it creeped the bejeezuz out of me & everyone I knew. It’s STILL creepy lol Don’t know if you caught but her due date is June 28. The 6th mth of the yr, then 2-8= -6 and/or 2x8=16. Someone in the film is declared 66yo. Over & over again w the 6s😩 I also know Mia Farrow was an absolute trend setter/fashion icon w that Pixie haircut Guy gives her so much grief over, & it’s STILL a popular choice for women to this day🥰 You go Rosemary!😍 F U, Guy😜 One thing I love about the older films is they are psychological thrillers- they don’t need all the blood guts & gore to get in audiences’ heads. If you wanna see another fantastic example of this, reach even further back in yesteryear to Whatever Happened to Baby Jane with Bette Davis & Joan Crawford. Flippin’ fantastic!!! A couple of yrs ago Susan Sarandon & Jessica Lange did a mini series called Feud about the making of the film that was SO interesting, intriguing, & insightful about 2 of Hollywood’s last grand dames & tough old broads in all the right things ways. It could be a mini rabbit hole. A rabbit dent?🤔 A rabbit cave?😜 You get the picture. Always fun watching a flick w you!TY!! My husband: What are you laughing at??😆 Stay safe & love much💖
The shocking twist ending was on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments, and no one, and I mean NO One saw it coming! When I watched it in 2007, I was shocked! My jaw dropped!😱
Rosemary’s Baby is a film that leaves a very deep impression on anyone who watches it. It’s a testament to the power of film as a storytelling medium. As you say, the story is totally FUBAR! Absolutely crazy. An instant classic.
My older sisters talked my Mom, who hated horror movies, into going to see this with them when it came out, and I managed to get myself tagged along even though I was just a little kid. It was the very first time I ever saw nudity in a movie, which at the time was still pretty rare. The actress who played Rosemary's "suicidal" friend was Victoria Vetri, aka Angela Dorian, who was a very popular Playboy Playmate of the Year and starred in "When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth."
Just throwing these out there, but some other movies I’d recommend based on this reaction are The Omen (1976), and The Stepford Wives (1975). Rosemary’s Baby was one of the wildest movies I’ve ever seen, and it was so much fun watching you react to it!
Yes, this is probably my favorite movie! I’ve seen it hundreds of times! I mostly like it for the whole mid 60s thing. The cars, the clothes, Ruth Gordon. I just love it.
@@iluvmusicals21 I remember the movie but the book was what fascinated me. When I finished reading it, I immediately read it again to see how it was done.
I adore this film. Have always adored it since seeing it on VHS in 1991 at 14. One of my all time favorite films. The atmosphere and style, the incredible, (now) period piece NYC settings (it’s the Dakota, THE DAKOTA), the costumes and style, the music, the premise, the tension building, the ending (right from the novel, it’s not happy exactly, not exactly sad either, it’s just…RIGHT), Mia Farrow and Ruth Gordon’s incredible performances, expert direction and cinematography,the dialogue of a bygone era, the not-over-the top Devil worshippers😂because they’re grounded in realism, it makes the film much more believable. Just a brilliant, brilliant film. Polanski’s best IMO
Brilliant summary! For me this and "The Exorcist" and "The Wicker Man" tie for best unsettling films by some margin, and they are all circa 50 years old!
Oh, god. My mother saw this when it came out in theatres originally, and to this day she freaks out over it; Even the mention of it is enough to get her to leave the room entirely. Apparently her small town local theatre in Ohio had a moral panic about it and stopped showing it just three days into its original release!
Holy crap That's pretty insane Well this is such an intense, crazy film for 1968, y'know? At least that's how I feel! I'm not surprised people were freaking out!
@@OGBReacts It was wild; Apparently one of my mom's friends wanted to go see it and had planned to drive to Columbus (nearest big city) to go check it out, but was begged not to go by almost the entire town-- Because she was three months pregnant at the time! Thank god she never saw it, I can only imagine how that would have gone down.
This is one of the great movies. It is sort of up there in the great classical movie canon of the last 100 years. Great that you got to watch it. And great reaction!
Oh, this is horror alright. Has a lot in common with movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, actually with the paranoia aspect to it. Just a different kind of paranoia. Its producer, William Castle is also a director of classics like 13 Ghosts (1960) and The House on Haunted Hill (1959), which I recommend checking out sometime. Roman Polanski is a pretty damn good director as well, though I don't recommend looking too deeply into his personal background unless you want certain unpleasant things taking up valuable head-space. Let's just say, "Forget it, Sam, it's Hollywood," and leave it there. Chinatown (1974) is great, btw.
To really understand the vibe of this movie as audiences would have perceived it in the year it came out, watch a few episodes of Mad Men, even the earlier 1962/63 episodes (since 1968 here wasn't all uniformly hippies and psychedelic summer of love, but it was still 1963-ish in spots, such as Guy and Ro's proper young marriage, setting up housekeeping in an older building, the precise pronunciation and manners all around. I was a small child in that period, so didn't understand all the adult concepts at the time, only later through movies and such, but I remember the look and feel. These were the days when a woman would get a bad diagnosis from the doctor via her husband (if he could bring himself to tell her), since the doctor would often break it to him, not her. The attitudes toward women were like they were children, and those were the kinder, more nurturing attitudes. Audiences at the time would have gotten the idea that things were being kept from Rosemary, but only through the ominous messages being conveyed in the storytelling would they have thought it implied something sinister, as if keeping her in the dark was common, but keeping her in the dark so she could birth the devil's spawn would have shocked audiences. And on a messaging level, this was all being used as a device to wake up audiences to the notion that the garden variety usurpation of a woman's free agency was the real devilish business, and her 'un-feminine' short hair and 'immodest' hemlines, plus the nudity, even to the part about her thwarting her husband's will and going through outside parties to hold her own course, being the sympathetic protagonist while doing these progressive things, helped cast the actions themselves in a positive light in the audience's subconscious. So some social commentary as the times, they were a-changin'. But yeah, lots of creepiness here. The overall idea of being caught in a web by satanists, betrayed on every hand. The chanting, and boisterous open confessions at the end of faith in the devil. The weird eyes in her 'dream' while being ravaged ("his father's eyes"). _Rosemary's Baby_ became THE movie encapsulating that whole genre, and all others attempting even similar subject matter were compared to it.... Well, for 5 years anyway, when the screen adaptation of Bill Blatty's book about a tween hit the theaters.... Oh, and watching this in the daytime -- good choice, Sam! 😃
For it's time, this movie was shocking. Mia Farrow was amazing as Rosemary. The entire cast was excellent. BTW I wanted Rosemary to snap also. Thanks for the review
Another great movie to do from a Ira Levin novel is 1975's The Stepford Wives. Much better than it's remake. It's cool to see the significant horror movies throughout the years. Psycho 1960, Eye of the Devil 1966, Rosemary's Baby 1968, The Exorcist 1973, The Omen 1976. Thanks for a great reaction.👍👻💀🎃🙀
Really enjoyed your watch/review. The dream sequence with the nun: Have you ever fallen asleep with the TV on and began dreaming scenarios that coincided with what you were hearing? Rosemary was hearing Minnie through the wall but relating an incident that happened to her in high school about a choir competition. But Minnie's audible comments about Terri intersected her dream. If you listen she says "I told you we shouldn't have told her, I told you she wouldn't be open minded!" They told TerriI what they were doing and Terri committed suicide. I read the book twice and thought this observation of dream/hearing parrallel was fascinating.
I remember my wife and I were on holiday in New York and we stumbled on the Dakota building. There were loads of people at the entrance. One of them said to me " Are you a fan of John Lennon?.. Yes , I replied but I'm here because the Devils baby was born here in 1966.. And they all move away from me.... :)
Great reaction! Interesting thing about witches and Hutch: he was played by Maurice Evans, who also played the great and powerful warlock Maurice, Samantha Stephens' father in 'Bewitched'!
Great reaction! My first time watching you. This is one of my top 10 movies ever. It’s so well done, great pacing, slow horror build-up, nothing gratuitous, and awesome music score. There’s nothing more frightening than our “normal” life turning out to be pure evil. The writer Shirley Jackson pulled that level of horror off in her short story The Lottery. Everyday life and neighbors turned deadly. Oh yeah, the general thought about Terry is that Roman told her what they wanted and rather than comply, Terry jumped. Which is why we heard Minnie reprimanding him later.
This is one of my favorite scary movies! I love how unsettling it is, and you felt it the way you kept saying, "Oh no this is so bad, oh now this is so bad." You should watch the original "Stepford Wives." It's just like that too!
I feel you. Guy is absolute trash. I think her friends were commenting on how she looked out of concern because she looked like she was sick, complete contrast to how Guy commented on her hairstyle for example. this is one of my favorite horror movies of all time. great reaction! subbed!
I saw that you reacted to this movie, so I haven't seen it so I had to watch the movie first. Then I saw your reaction. You picked up quickly, so much more than I did watching it. Like the husband. I really thought she was finally safe at Dr Hills office. Until in 1968 you could have your wife committed. I don't know if you can still do that, but let's check everything out before that happens!! Damn! You had a great reaction, faster than me, I really enjoyed it!❤️🔥
Loved your reaction! This is one of my favorite movies. My mom watched this in the movie theatre at 60´s but she didn´t really understand it at that time.
Enjoyed your hilarious and spot on reaction! Rosemary's Baby was a highly controversial but big box office draw in 1968. It played for months and months in many larger cities. Some people were disappointed the baby was never shown with several even claiming that it was in fact shown. Roman Polanski clarified this in an interview stating that during production there was some talk of showing the infant at the end. At the time in 1968 they decided special effects had not advanced to the point where creating and showing an infant devil may not only be unrealistic looking but possibly even laughable. So the decision was made to leave it to the viewers imagination. At the climax when Rosemary says "it can't be!" and Minnie answers "look at his hands!" followed by Laura Louise "his feet!" Those two descriptions alone are enough for viewers to visualize the infant.
I saw this one night when I was baby sitting some kids for a family friend...Around 16, alone (after the small children were in bed), in a house that was about 1/2 mile from anyone else and very far from a road, in the woods....might be one of the stupidest things I've ever done. I was hearing and seeing things by the time they got home!!!
At least the child was reunited with his mother, so a happy ending. Reminded me of the end quote in Kill Bill: "The lioness has rejoined her cub and all is well in the jungle." ;) But seriously, this movie chocked people when it came. This and The Exorcist (5 years later) was something else. The only thing that comes close recently is Ari Aster's Hereditary (2018). But I don't think that will be remembered that much in 50 years...
I think hereditary is an instant classic that will still be remembered years in the future. I remember the huge collective gasp and shock that everyone in the theatre had during that particular scene, and the film making is amazing enough to carry that shock and differentiate it from other movies that cheaply use shock horror.
Hey, great reaction of one of my favourite films, you def got an new subscriber. Ira Levin who wrote the book also wrote The Stepford Wives, which I highly recommend the 1975 film adaptation to react to, another great film in the same trope as this one. Dan 😎👍
I CANT STOP. I love this movie too! Why did this not pop up last year?? How could you not know this movie? Youth. It was before my time as well, but stuck forever. If I can’t sleep, I pop in my vhs and Rosemarys lullaby sing me to sleep. Until the Devil shows up. The scary music alerts me that it’s time to wake up till he leaves. Then back to sleep. Say no more I’m ready to go!! All better!!!
This is a true horror movie. You're watching a person's normal life go sideways & head right to hell & there's nothing you can do about it. Circumstances are beyond your control.
BTW, this movie was filmed in The Dakota Hotel, home of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. He was shot right outside the front door and died on the way to the hospital. I don't think it had anything to do with witchcraft, though.
Ruth Gordon, the great Ruth Gordon, who played Minnie, was also a writer. She co-wrote the screenplays to Adam's Rib and Pat and Mike, two Tracy and Hepburn movies, with her husband.
I’m thrilled u watched this! I’ve been sick all day or I’d have watched sooner. I can’t believe u’ve never even heard of this movie but I’m still stoked?😉 I saw this when I was little & was terrified but LOVED it!
I guess what different people consider to be "horror" is really subjective. My definition is pretty wide, and the slow burn tension that kept tightening in my gut while watching Rosemary's Baby sure counts for me. Great script too; even tiny details that don't seem important at the time tie in to the plot.
In fact, all the cultists were cast with big Hollywood stars from the '30s and '40s, and all with reputations VERY different from their roles here to make it creepier. Basically, imagine if a film these days cast the likes of Ed Asner, Robert Redford, and Betty White in these roles.
oh my GAWWWD lol I forgot that I already watched this reaction before!!! 😆😆😆😆😆 When you said, "I'm officially in the I Hate Guy club", it clicked that I'd already seen it, haha. I even commented, bahaha. It was great the first time I watched it and great the second time, lol.
Im new to your channel but have been watching your vids the past 2 days. Your personality is awesome and when i saw you did Rosemary's baby! I was like oh someone else's first time??
@@OGBReacts honestly, im falling in love with you with every video lol. Have you seen the 90s classics The Hairy Bird/strike! and drop dead gorgeous? would love to see your reactions to them! :)
Wait this is the OLDEST movie you've seen? OMG you need to see "The Sound of Music!" That and "Gone With the Wind" and the "The Wizard of Oz," if you haven't seen those either. Oh, and "The Music Man" and "Invasion of the Bodysnatchers!" There's just so many good old movies!
OH! My apologies, I meant this is the oldest movie I've seen on this channel so far! Though I haven't seen any of those except pretty much the Wizard of Oz!
Hated the fact that guy just gave up and let it happen for fame! Then afterwards became a kiss ass towards minnie and Roman and didn't want rosemary out there sight. It was so fucking scary!
Among everything else that this film does so well, I love that it manages to make her husband far and away the most hateable character of them all - and that includes the baby-kidnapping Satanists! XD
You seem to have missed what Guy was talking about at the end. He had arranged to...rent out her womb space as it were, before they ever looked at the apartment. They got her to be the devil's baby mama, and he got success in his career. He did need to drink the koolaid, he was one of the people mixing it for her since before the first scene. PS: When Guy said she looked bad, it was because she wasn't wearing her hair the way he liked it.... when her friends said she looked bad, it was because of the drastic change in body weight and pallor. While pregnant her face and arms became gaunt. Her skin tone became extremely pale with dark rings around her sunken eyes.
It's possible Guy met with them before they came to look at the apartment and why they did. It's a good theory, actually. I thought they arranged everything after the dinner, but, yes, it could be.
I read the book too & was surprised how close the movie was to the book. The sequel book Son of Rosemary was good too & I am disappointed a movie was never made for it.
Great reaction to a great movie! You did a superb edit, I don't think I missed anything (other than my favorite Guy excuse: "He plays the recorder!" ) :P I LOVE how much you hate Guy, who is played by one of my favorite directors/actors, John Cassavetes. You were right there, feeling every emotion, every note of the movie. Your post movie rap is great. And how about checking out a movie from 1968? The more "modern" style of American movies really kicked in 67-68, with "Bonnie And Clyde", "The Graduate", this movie, "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Midnight Cowboy", etc. So I hope you continue to dip into the 60s and 70s movies, they broke so much ground and feel way more current in style to today than, say, 1950s movies were in the 1970s! Thanks again, I subscribed! Looking forward to seeing what you do next! ("Bonnie And Clyde", true crime, female gangster, gigantic classic, oh please put that on your list! Great movie!):D
Thanks so much!! I appreciate your nice comment ♥️ I’m glad you liked the edit too; movies like these are so hard to edit because there’s just SO MUCH yknow? But this turned out to be a favorite of mine so far honestly Again, thanks for the comment and the recommendations!! And welcome on in!
@@OGBReacts I was gone for a few days, just seeing this comment now! I've always wondered about what's an easier, or harder movie to edit, so damn.......I can see why this one is tough! But it definitely paid off! PS: As far as recommendations, "Bonnie And Clyde" from those titles I mentioned is the only one I'm really "recommending", I was speaking in more of a general way about how movies started to get more "modern" around that time period and still are very easy to watch. Although all of those specific movies are great and classic and worth seeing, I just was responding to the remark you had made about this being the earliest movie you had reacted to. But "Bonnie And Clyde".....that definitely was a recommendation! Roman Polanski's other masterpiece (in English) is "Chinatown", with Jack Nicholson. (Both of those movies star Faye Dunaway, coincidentally) Ok....going to check out another one of your videos now, if you'll excuse me! :D
The novel this movie is based on was actually pretty important... along with The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty which came out around the same time, Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin basically revitalized the horror genre in the late 60s and early 70s after it had gotten stale and unpopular in the 50s. It's one of the most influential horror novels ever written. Levin also wrote a bunch of other books and plays that got adapted into successful films, including The Stepford Wives, The Boys From Brazil, and Deathtrap.
Mia Farrow was newly married to much-older Frank Sinatra while making the movie and he was insisting she leave & return to him. Polanski convinced her to stay and Sinatra had divorce papers served on her during filming. The apartment house is The Dakota, a famous building in Manhattan (where many celebs live and John Lennon was murdered.) This film had many good actors: Ruth Gordon (Oscar winner) John Cassavetes, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy and Charles Grodin (Dr Hill- 1st film).
It's a wonder why no one ever mentions the last shot of the movie. If you notice the camera pans down. You will see Guy and Rosemary entering the building again. Dressed in the same clothes as when the movie starts. As if the whole thing is/was a dream. If you read the novel Son Of Rosemary, the sequel to Rosemary's Baby the novel. It's the same ending described in the sequel's ending. Ira Levin wrote probably two of the greatest feminist horror novels ever written. Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives. In late 80s and 90s domestic psychological/horror movies became a huge part of popular culture. Many of them were from a women's point of view. One day there will be someone who will write the definitive thesis on why domestic psychology horror movies are a popular phenomenon in American history entertainment.
I hope you all enjoyed the very first Tuesday reaction video!!
Tuesday's are going to be mainly for continuing series that I've started (Jumanji, Jurassic Park, the Conjuring, etc.) and Level 5 reaction requests from Patreon!
ALSO, side note:
I think the craziest part of this reaction is how hard it was to edit down.
This is almost as long as my edited down LORD OF THE RINGS reaction (the first one, EXTENDED, by the way)
Though this does also contain my longest end discussion to date, which was almost 10 minutes of discussion.
But yeah it was so hard to edit down because this movie is so DENSE
SO much happened in this 2 hour 17 minute movie
So much talking and detail
While with Lord of the Rings, that was apparent as well, but SO much time was spent showing off scenery and battle scenes, and other conversations that just weren't as super important, ones that can be appreciated but omitted from the reaction video
It's just crazy how two movies, one being almost half as long as the other, can be almost the same length in my edited down reaction versions!
RANT OVER but yeah I just thought that was fun!
Bojangles: there's a big ass...joint!
Me: idk why, but i pictured a meme of Snoop Dogg saying "hold my blunt" when you said that. XD
you really got the story 100%-good job--you know that Apartment Building in NYC is where John Lennon lived and was shot and killed in 1981....creepy......Guy is truly one of the worst characters
Rosemary was a victim all throughout, but at the very end, in that crazy room with the satanists, she recognizes there’s nothing to be done - and that she’s now the boss.
You know the neighbour you probably think is a bit off? It could be Rosemary's baby, all grown up.
Awesome movie
They never showed the baby, at all… that’s part of the brilliance of this movie
Totally agree! I’ve always felt that way too. The horror of imagining is way worse than anything they could have created
In the book, the baby was described as a redhead with horns, claws and furnace yellow eyes with slits.
This was Roman Polanski's first film based on someone else's work, and he actually didn't realize he was allowed to make changes from the novel. He only found out when he called the author saying he was having trouble finding a particular magazine issue that was referenced, forcing the author to awkwardly explain he just made it up. The result is perhaps the most faithful film adaptation ever made, down to how all the rooms are described.
Agreed! After reading this novel, I was amazed as to how spot-on the movie was to the original source. An all-time favorite movie...
It’s downright meticulous. In the novel, Rosemary goes to Vidal Sassoon for a haircut, which she mentions in the movie - and Polanski got Vidal Sassoon to come in and trim Mia Farrow’s hair.
Well Roman Polanski does have a particular insight into evil.
@@bad-people6510 Read the novel The Painted Bird by Kosinski to get an understanding of the world he lived through in Eastern Europe.
@@nemomarcus5784 I don't really give a fuck how hard his childhood was or wasn't. It does not begin to excuse what he did and continues to brag about. I know the holocaust was bad, I know communism is bad. I'm more vocally opposed to that than most people. His pregnant girlfriend was murdered by a cult of smoked out hippy fuck ups. I know. Yet plenty of people managed to live through those things without then raping children. Fuck Roman Polanski. Stop making excuses for shitty people.
Idk why but Rosemary saying "This is no dream! This is really happening!" during her nightmare sent shivers down my spine...
Her whole meltdown was crazy!
Well because it was no dream. It was really happening. It should shiver your spine after all.
Like a date rape drugging.
"Shut up, you're in Dubrovnik--I don't hear you..." My absolute FAVORITE line of the film. I still yell it out to my best friend when I'm losing an argument. This film is a master class in suspense.
Me too!
OGB "Guy's such an asshole, I love it"
Me - *nervous sweats*
LMAO
I learned REAL quick
@@tonyyul703 YESSSSSS I love my Steelers
One of the most terrifying movies of all time! The people closest to you lying, manipulating you. Everyone in on it.
We studied this movie in college and it honestly has so much to it. It preys on the very real and very female specific fear of being pregnant. The horror of being pregnant is that, in many ways, there's just this THING inside you and you are so clueless and helpless about what's going on with your body that you have to rely on other people to tell you what to do. What if the people you're supposed to trust (your doctor, husband, neighbors) didn't have your best interests at heart? Such real and terrifying stuff. This movie takes it to the extreme with Satan worshipping, but the base fear is real. I tell you what, I watched this movie in a class with 20 other girls, and it was WEIRD VIBES walking out of there.
The novel's writer Ira Levin said his initial inspiration was watching The Haunting, where the ghosts are never actually seen, and thought about how that could be taken a step further with the monster being INSIDE the hero.
Well you can take it back to nature in some cases. For male Lions they have to leave for new territory and gain new ground and mating is their whole life and that involves fighting to the death. Lionesses in those areas get pregnant and hunt and raise babies whose girls stay with their moms and aunts forever. Whether you are human or a lion or many other mammals males and females are very different creatures. I guess my point is male or female, being a human, being another mammal, being alive, can be very scary.
This THING is a human being you dipshit
Interesting at the college level The Most Precious Gift = Life ,that grows into a beautiful baby full of potential is referred to as a ' Thing " . The person teaching that class has failed miserably !
@@METALSCAVENGER78 That's not what they meant and you know it.
As I remember from the novel, Terry threw herself out the window because she chose death rather than having the devil's baby.
Fair 🤣
A young woman being impregnated by pure evil. The involvement of an insane cult. If she'd have died in the end that would have rung a little to closely to the director's real life.
Oh is that why? I always thought the cult killed her because they decided to use rosemary instead
It’s that way in the movie too. The night Rosemary and Guy are making out in their bedroom, you can hear Minnie through the wall saying “In my opinion, I don’t think you should tell her. That’s my opinion.” Then after Terry killed herself you can hear Minnie saying “I told you not to tell her. I told you she wouldn’t be open minded.”
@@KinkssNCoilss Oh damn nice catch, I could never make out what was being said through the wall.
I think Dr. Hill was concerned about his reputation, and convinced himself that she was suffering from Pre-Partum Hysteria.
He was all about helping her until she name dropped one of the most expensive, sought after and best MD, in New York. (according to the film) Sometimes, when you are seeking help for paranoia, and people are after you. Less is more. (in fiction)
@@janleonard3101 Who broke you? 😂
Would you believe her? Of course you wouldn't (I hope). But still, he should never have sent her back to the people she's afraid of.
@@haps2019 Unfortunately, that was pretty standard at the time.
Moon Brooke is right Dr Hill changed his attitude when she said Saperstein
Hutch is the one who knowingly sacrificed himself to try to save Rosemary; he was familiar with the ways of occult as presented in the film, knew they took his glove, knew they would try to stop him from revealing this knowledge to Rosemary, and lost his life fighting out of a coma just to get the book to her. He’s the hero in the film. His comment “you look awful” was out of concern for her health, not to demean her, and Rosemary took it the way it was meant, everyone else around her had been lying to her telling her she looked fine, when she looked really sick and needed real medical assistance. Rosemary ultimately got the baby she’d been yearning for so she was placated, lost to the materialistic world these people thrive on.
In the end, the baby was still hers. It still grew inside her, she still loved and cared for it for nine months and I think she didn't blame the baby for what it was, that's why she was rocking it at the end. It's totally fucked up, but it might be how maternal instincts work.
Agreed! Still insane though LMAO
Maybe she even hoped she could save him.
In a way, I think she was also a bit relieved that he wasn't sacrificed. Instead, he will just be the Prince of Darkness.
@@brigidtheirish Maybe she will. Look at Good Omens.
@@HuntingViolets Not familiar with that movie. Show? But we can hope.
What's really irritating about this movie is it shows, accurately, how women were treated back in the 1960s. My mother confirmed to me that if you had a "women's issue" that couldn't be found via physical medical test at the time (like endometriosis for example), it was all in your "pretty little head". No doctor would take you seriously and you genuinely risked getting put on dangerous medicines or sent to a mental asylum for "women's hysteria". My mother and grandmother would ell me how awfully they were treated by medical "professionals" back in those days; even though it still happens to this day, at least women are taken seriously when we say something is wrong. This movie is a great example of showing how the mother's instincts are correct and nobody (even outside of the cult) is willing to listen to her.
Absolutely insane how that was the case. I couldn’t even imagine!
Many times, it is not much better for women medically now than it was then. Only now, instead of women's hysteria, it is "Just lose some weight".
Earlier movies always seem to have had more on the line than today’s. The stories are intricate and interwoven and although fantastical and implausible, still not impossible.I don’t remember when the studios stopped trusting us to understand complex movies. They certainly were more raw.
Flash bang zoom sells a lot more tickets.
I do.
The decline in quality started in 2006.
My favorite line from the film goes to Rosemary: Shut up. You're in Dubrovnik, I don't hear you.
Best gaslighting movie ever ... Evil often disguises it’s self as ridicules and non threatening
And dismissing everything Rosemary was going through as banal.
I’ve been a nurse for 28 years. It’s not unusual for a patient to look like they’re getting better right before they die. It happens quite a bit. It’s very strange, and I’m not sure why it happens, but it does.
My mom's a nurse;
& I'm a former nurse
(now I'm a MD, which is crazy haha)
but I remember when I was little that I would see the dying with their loved ones,
when they were dying, then they get better, then die.
My mom said it's usually because patients become more aware after doses are reduced, which I guess is partly true?
but I'm glad some get a chance to say goodbye to their loved ones.
@@Gravydog316 That makes real sense to me, I think she's right!
Terri jumped out of the window herself, because she found out she was pregnant with Satan’s baby. They tried it on her first, and it didn’t work out. So they started over with Rosemary.
oooo good theory... someone else said maybe Satan himself chucked her out the window 👀
I don't think she was pregnant. Roman had suggested the whole thing to her and she was horrified. You can hear Roman and Minnie talking through the wall, with Minnie saying Roman shouldn't have told her, that she knew Terri wouldn't be openminded.
The apartment building is The Dakota. John Lennon and Yoko Ono lived there until he was murdered in almost the exact same spot that Terry died.
It's really creepy the how the name of the character Roman Castevet echo the names of the director and actor.
Lord this movie is creepy
Omg lol hands down one of the best reactions you've done. I love you content and your personality, please continue being you
Oh my goodness! 🤣 Thanks so much!! This movie made me feel a lot 🤣
And thank you
I’ll happily continue!
I'm ashamed to say I was gleeful at the prospect of seeing you react to this one. It was really at the top of the heap of scary movies when it came out.
The book's author Ira Levin actually wrote a sequel, Son of Rosemary, shortly before his death in 1997. It was universally hated and it's typically believed he did it just to stop the publisher from claiming the rights to the story upon his death and getting someone else to do a cheap cash-in sequel. Still, it's worth at least looking up the plot summary.
Sometimes, when someone knows their time is short they convert some assets into cash to leave for family.
But there was also a TV movie called Look What Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976).
Oh interesting. I'm def gonna Google that.. thx!
John Cassavetes, who played Guy, was also a director, and by all reports he very much disagreed with Polanski's direction in pretty much every scene, and wasn't shy about sharing his opinions on how they should be filmed. I imagine everyone took quite a bit of pleasure filming the scene where Rosemary spits at him.
Why? Cassavetes wasn't hated on the set, he was at loggerheads with Polanski, big difference. Mia Farrow has nothing but nice things to say about Cassavetes, about working with him, and stayed friends with him right until he died. (In fact, Gena Rowlands was working with Mia around the time he passed in "Another Woman"). Love Polanski, but I love Cassavetes just as much, and HIS movie of 1968, "Faces", was just as groundbreaking as "Rosemary's Baby". They had two completely directing styles, big deal. Cassavetes is PERFECT in that role, as he usually was when he acted, I couldn't imagine any other actor in that part.
@Randy White I said he passed AROUND THE TIME of "Another Woman", not before, your reading comprehension is knocking me out. He was extremely sick (in L.A.) while she was shooting "Another Woman" (in NYC), and he died soon after.
I'm really enjoying your movie reactions and pleased to hear you're trying to do more in a week. You have such a natural way about you in front of the camera. It's great to find a reactor that is naturally funny and not "trying" to be funny. You're off the cuff comments are right up my humor alley.
Yay! I'm so glad you're enjoying the reactions! Thank you for the nice compliments too!
I'm easing my way into things; since the rest of this month is crazy, I'm doing this Tuesday video, skipping next Tuesday, then doing another the following Tuesday, then going ahead and STARTING starting in September!
this is one of the scariest movies for me. Maybe it's my trust issues. And having everyone around you make you think you're crazy. It's a very real thing.
It has an under taste "It's the crack" 😅🤣😂
In 1968 the US was a young country. The baby boomers were 21 years old at their oldest. Old people were viewed with suspicion. 53 years later its the baby boomers who are the old people depicted in the film.
this is my favorite horror film. there's very little blood and guts, with no jump scares, but damn, it's still scary as I''ll get out with brilliant writing about paranoia and gaslighting! plus the casting of golden-hollywood character actors as the cult works beautifully, especially Ruth Godon as Minnie in an Oscar winning performance!
My favorite classic horror movie! The guy who wrote the book this is based on - Ira Levin - also wrote The Stepford Wives, which is another excellent horror story about loss of female autonomy.
Oh The Stepford Wives is sooooooo creepy
The way people react to Guy , the way they despise~ hate him is a testament to John Cassavetes's great acting . Also the people were commenting on her looks out of concern . Her transformation in the movie is pretty dramatic and one of the scenes i remember people talking about when i was child ,was when she was eating the liver raw .
When I first saw it I thought Cassavetes played Guy kind of... boring. But then I realized it was perfect that way. Showing the 'non-entity' Guy really is.. Like in the name 'Guy', like: just some...
@@haps2019 Interesting take on " Guy "
In the beginning of the movie we never know whose idea it was to check out The Bramford , when Rosemary tells the super of the building Guy's an actor he responds by saying we've been popular with actors.
Later at the first dinner Roman says he's seen Guy's play and knows all about his acting career. So did Guy know from the beginning all about Roman and Minnie Castevets plan all along or did another actor tell Guy they could help him with his career ?
little trivia: Maurice Evans who plays Rosemary's friend Hutch is also the same actor who played Dr.Zaius in the Planet of the Apes movies . Both Rosemarys Baby and Planet of the Apes were both released in 1968 .
Mia Farrow had a hard time doing the scene where Rosemary eats liver raw because she is a vet. I don't think it was difficult to film the next scene of her throwing up all that.
@@Threeleebird A vet?
The man outside the phone booth was the producer and original director William Castle. The studio wanted a different director so he stepped aside and let Roman Polanski direct it
To be fair, those of us who have survived raising a teen have at one point or another thought ‘Sure- it’s Satan’s spawn… but it’s MY Satan’s spawn.’🤷🏼♀️😂😩
I was far too young to see this 1st run/release, but can remember when we were able to- it creeped the bejeezuz out of me & everyone I knew. It’s STILL creepy lol Don’t know if you caught but her due date is June 28. The 6th mth of the yr, then 2-8= -6 and/or 2x8=16. Someone in the film is declared 66yo. Over & over again w the 6s😩
I also know Mia Farrow was an absolute trend setter/fashion icon w that Pixie haircut Guy gives her so much grief over, & it’s STILL a popular choice for women to this day🥰 You go Rosemary!😍 F U, Guy😜
One thing I love about the older films is they are psychological thrillers- they don’t need all the blood guts & gore to get in audiences’ heads. If you wanna see another fantastic example of this, reach even further back in yesteryear to Whatever Happened to Baby Jane with Bette Davis & Joan Crawford. Flippin’ fantastic!!! A couple of yrs ago Susan Sarandon & Jessica Lange did a mini series called Feud about the making of the film that was SO interesting, intriguing, & insightful about 2 of Hollywood’s last grand dames & tough old broads in all the right things ways. It could be a mini rabbit hole. A rabbit dent?🤔 A rabbit cave?😜 You get the picture.
Always fun watching a flick w you!TY!!
My husband: What are you laughing at??😆
Stay safe & love much💖
The shocking twist ending was on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments, and no one, and I mean NO One saw it coming! When I watched it in 2007, I was shocked! My jaw dropped!😱
I saw it coming.
In fact bojangles saw it coming in the opening scenes. Did you not hear her?
She figured it out pretty early in the reaction.
Rosemary’s Baby is a film that leaves a very deep impression on anyone who watches it. It’s a testament to the power of film as a storytelling medium.
As you say, the story is totally FUBAR! Absolutely crazy. An instant classic.
My older sisters talked my Mom, who hated horror movies, into going to see this with them when it came out, and I managed to get myself tagged along even though I was just a little kid. It was the very first time I ever saw nudity in a movie, which at the time was still pretty rare. The actress who played Rosemary's "suicidal" friend was Victoria Vetri, aka Angela Dorian, who was a very popular Playboy Playmate of the Year and starred in "When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth."
Hence why Rosemary actually asks if she's Victoria Vetri. That kind of meta gag was a lot less common back then.
@@Rmlohner Yeah, I think in the book she says she looks like Anna Maria Alberghetti.
Just throwing these out there, but some other movies I’d recommend based on this reaction are The Omen (1976), and The Stepford Wives (1975).
Rosemary’s Baby was one of the wildest movies I’ve ever seen, and it was so much fun watching you react to it!
A freaking scary 70s movie that never gets reactions is 'The Other', NOT to be confused with 'The Others' with Nicole Kidman.
Yes, this is probably my favorite movie! I’ve seen it hundreds of times! I mostly like it for the whole mid 60s thing. The cars, the clothes, Ruth Gordon. I just love it.
@@iluvmusicals21 I remember the movie but the book was what fascinated me. When I finished reading it, I immediately read it again to see how it was done.
Like Rosemary's Baby, Stepford is based on a novel by Ira Levin. Be sure to watch the Katharine Ross version of Stepford if you do watch it.
@@iluvmusicals21 The Others is great, though.
It's always so great seeing younger people appreciate and like older films
I adore this film. Have always adored it since seeing it on VHS in 1991 at 14. One of my all time favorite films. The atmosphere and style, the incredible, (now) period piece NYC settings (it’s the Dakota, THE DAKOTA), the costumes and style, the music, the premise, the tension building, the ending (right from the novel, it’s not happy exactly, not exactly sad either, it’s just…RIGHT), Mia Farrow and Ruth Gordon’s incredible performances, expert direction and cinematography,the dialogue of a bygone era, the not-over-the top Devil worshippers😂because they’re grounded in realism, it makes the film much more believable. Just a brilliant, brilliant film. Polanski’s best IMO
Brilliant summary! For me this and "The Exorcist" and "The Wicker Man" tie for best unsettling films by some margin, and they are all circa 50 years old!
My great uncle (Farciot Edouart) worked on 350 films, from 1915-1967, and this was the last before he retired.
Oh wow! That’s crazy!
12:28 "Not Daddy! Ohhhh noooo". HILARIOUS!!! loved that. 🤣🧡
I just love how your channel keeps growing :) congrats on 5.9k
Thank you so much
I can't wait to continue to grow with everybody
Oh my God! This reaction was so much to watch with you 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Probably one of the craziest films I've seen in a WHILE! I hope you enjoyed!
Oh, god. My mother saw this when it came out in theatres originally, and to this day she freaks out over it; Even the mention of it is enough to get her to leave the room entirely. Apparently her small town local theatre in Ohio had a moral panic about it and stopped showing it just three days into its original release!
Holy crap
That's pretty insane
Well this is such an intense, crazy film for 1968, y'know? At least that's how I feel! I'm not surprised people were freaking out!
@@OGBReacts It was wild; Apparently one of my mom's friends wanted to go see it and had planned to drive to Columbus (nearest big city) to go check it out, but was begged not to go by almost the entire town-- Because she was three months pregnant at the time! Thank god she never saw it, I can only imagine how that would have gone down.
@@effluviah7544 oh my god WOW 😩
I love the expression on your face when you realized that Roman’s name was the anagram.
During the impregnation scene, did anyone think that the woman coming down the stairs was Jackie O?
In the novel, in the dream sequence, she talks to "Jackie" about turning the music for the ritual down. It is meant to be her.
really good, fun reaction to a brilliant classic. no matter how many times i watch this i still get caught up in the claustrophobic intensity of it.
Thanks so much!
This is one of the great movies. It is sort of up there in the great classical movie canon of the last 100 years. Great that you got to watch it. And great reaction!
Oh, this is horror alright. Has a lot in common with movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, actually with the paranoia aspect to it. Just a different kind of paranoia. Its producer, William Castle is also a director of classics like 13 Ghosts (1960) and The House on Haunted Hill (1959), which I recommend checking out sometime. Roman Polanski is a pretty damn good director as well, though I don't recommend looking too deeply into his personal background unless you want certain unpleasant things taking up valuable head-space. Let's just say, "Forget it, Sam, it's Hollywood," and leave it there. Chinatown (1974) is great, btw.
I subscribed as soon as you said Guy's behavior was HORRENDOUS, this movie is about Consent, and he FAILS that test!
Welcome on in!! Guy was a piece of garbage LMAO
To really understand the vibe of this movie as audiences would have perceived it in the year it came out, watch a few episodes of Mad Men, even the earlier 1962/63 episodes (since 1968 here wasn't all uniformly hippies and psychedelic summer of love, but it was still 1963-ish in spots, such as Guy and Ro's proper young marriage, setting up housekeeping in an older building, the precise pronunciation and manners all around. I was a small child in that period, so didn't understand all the adult concepts at the time, only later through movies and such, but I remember the look and feel. These were the days when a woman would get a bad diagnosis from the doctor via her husband (if he could bring himself to tell her), since the doctor would often break it to him, not her. The attitudes toward women were like they were children, and those were the kinder, more nurturing attitudes. Audiences at the time would have gotten the idea that things were being kept from Rosemary, but only through the ominous messages being conveyed in the storytelling would they have thought it implied something sinister, as if keeping her in the dark was common, but keeping her in the dark so she could birth the devil's spawn would have shocked audiences. And on a messaging level, this was all being used as a device to wake up audiences to the notion that the garden variety usurpation of a woman's free agency was the real devilish business, and her 'un-feminine' short hair and 'immodest' hemlines, plus the nudity, even to the part about her thwarting her husband's will and going through outside parties to hold her own course, being the sympathetic protagonist while doing these progressive things, helped cast the actions themselves in a positive light in the audience's subconscious. So some social commentary as the times, they were a-changin'.
But yeah, lots of creepiness here. The overall idea of being caught in a web by satanists, betrayed on every hand. The chanting, and boisterous open confessions at the end of faith in the devil. The weird eyes in her 'dream' while being ravaged ("his father's eyes"). _Rosemary's Baby_ became THE movie encapsulating that whole genre, and all others attempting even similar subject matter were compared to it.... Well, for 5 years anyway, when the screen adaptation of Bill Blatty's book about a tween hit the theaters....
Oh, and watching this in the daytime -- good choice, Sam! 😃
I remember seeing this for the first time. Felt so uncomfortable lol
It's truly an insane movie
Same here. That’s why it’s a masterpiece of horror cinema. It gave me nightmares. I almost didn’t want to revisit the film after that
Don't forget Hutch. He was a good person too. Then he went on to be a witch's father on the TV show Bewitched.
For it's time, this movie was shocking. Mia Farrow was amazing as Rosemary. The entire cast was excellent. BTW I wanted Rosemary to snap also. Thanks for the review
Thank you for watching!
I think it's still shocking. "Look at his hands! Look at his feet!" That we don't get to see just makes it worse (better).
Another great movie to do from a Ira Levin novel is 1975's The Stepford Wives. Much better than it's remake. It's cool to see the significant horror movies throughout the years. Psycho 1960, Eye of the Devil 1966, Rosemary's Baby 1968, The Exorcist 1973, The Omen 1976. Thanks for a great reaction.👍👻💀🎃🙀
Yesssss!
Just watched Psycho recently, gonna be watch the Exorcist for this Friday!
Also The Boys From Brazil and Deathtrap
From what I've read Mia's husband Frank Sinatra had the same reaction as Guy to the hair cut. I think it looks cute!
I do too!! People were so rough on her :(
@@OGBReacts Most people were reacting to how ill she seemed (Hutch and her female friends, anyway).
I think it’s safe to say Rosemary left Guy in the end. I don’t think she could have left her baby though, no matter his “true” father.
"I'm officially in the I Hate Guy club, everything that I laughed at what he said before, it is now null". I can't. 😂
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Really enjoyed your watch/review. The dream sequence with the nun: Have you ever fallen asleep with the TV on and began dreaming scenarios that coincided with what you were hearing? Rosemary was hearing Minnie through the wall but relating an incident that happened to her in high school about a choir competition. But Minnie's audible comments about Terri intersected her dream. If you listen she says "I told you we shouldn't have told her, I told you she wouldn't be open minded!" They told TerriI what they were doing and Terri committed suicide. I read the book twice and thought this observation of dream/hearing parrallel was fascinating.
Ahhh I see!! Thank you so much for clarifying! That makes perfect sense now!!
One of the most shocking film endings of all time. Great movie, just as shocking today as it was then.
I remember my wife and I were on holiday in New York and we stumbled on the Dakota building. There were loads of people at the entrance. One of them said to me " Are you a fan of John Lennon?.. Yes , I replied but I'm here because the Devils baby was born here in 1966.. And they all move away from me.... :)
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Guy Woodhouse is the ultimate gaslighter
Great reaction! Interesting thing about witches and Hutch: he was played by Maurice Evans, who also played the great and powerful warlock Maurice, Samantha Stephens' father in 'Bewitched'!
Great reaction! My first time watching you. This is one of my top 10 movies ever. It’s so well done, great pacing, slow horror build-up, nothing gratuitous, and awesome music score. There’s nothing more frightening than our “normal” life turning out to be pure evil. The writer Shirley Jackson pulled that level of horror off in her short story The Lottery. Everyday life and neighbors turned deadly. Oh yeah, the general thought about Terry is that Roman told her what they wanted and rather than comply, Terry jumped. Which is why we heard Minnie reprimanding him later.
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This truly was a fantastic film!
Btw: The voice of the blind actor at the phone is Tony Curtis!
I thought it sounded like him.
This is one of my favorite scary movies! I love how unsettling it is, and you felt it the way you kept saying, "Oh no this is so bad, oh now this is so bad." You should watch the original "Stepford Wives." It's just like that too!
That’s because it’s the same author
I feel you. Guy is absolute trash. I think her friends were commenting on how she looked out of concern because she looked like she was sick, complete contrast to how Guy commented on her hairstyle for example. this is one of my favorite horror movies of all time. great reaction! subbed!
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I saw that you reacted to this movie, so I haven't seen it so I had to watch the movie first. Then I saw your reaction. You picked up quickly, so much more than I did watching it. Like the husband. I really thought she was finally safe at Dr Hills office. Until in 1968 you could have your wife committed. I don't know if you can still do that, but let's check everything out before that happens!! Damn! You had a great reaction, faster than me, I really enjoyed it!❤️🔥
So glad you enjoyed! Thanks for watching
Loved your reaction! This is one of my favorite movies. My mom watched this in the movie theatre at 60´s but she didn´t really understand it at that time.
Enjoyed your hilarious and spot on reaction! Rosemary's Baby was a highly controversial but big box office draw in 1968. It played for months and months in many larger cities. Some people were disappointed the baby was never shown with several even claiming that it was in fact shown. Roman Polanski clarified this in an interview stating that during production there was some talk of showing the infant at the end. At the time in 1968 they decided special effects had not advanced to the point where creating and showing an infant devil may not only be unrealistic looking but possibly even laughable. So the decision was made to leave it to the viewers imagination. At the climax when Rosemary says "it can't be!" and Minnie answers "look at his hands!" followed by Laura Louise "his feet!" Those two descriptions alone are enough for viewers to visualize the infant.
Even today, it's so much more horrifying not showing it.
I saw this one night when I was baby sitting some kids for a family friend...Around 16, alone (after the small children were in bed), in a house that was about 1/2 mile from anyone else and very far from a road, in the woods....might be one of the stupidest things I've ever done. I was hearing and seeing things by the time they got home!!!
At least the child was reunited with his mother, so a happy ending.
Reminded me of the end quote in Kill Bill: "The lioness has rejoined her cub and all is well in the jungle."
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But seriously, this movie chocked people when it came. This and The Exorcist (5 years later) was something else.
The only thing that comes close recently is Ari Aster's Hereditary (2018). But I don't think that will be remembered that much in 50 years...
Yea her reaction to Hereditary and Midsomer are going to be fucking nuts imo.
I think hereditary is an instant classic that will still be remembered years in the future. I remember the huge collective gasp and shock that everyone in the theatre had during that particular scene, and the film making is amazing enough to carry that shock and differentiate it from other movies that cheaply use shock horror.
"there there, little satan baby, there there" LMAO! Love these reactions 🤣😊
Hey, great reaction of one of my favourite films, you def got an new subscriber.
Ira Levin who wrote the book also wrote The Stepford Wives, which I highly recommend the 1975 film adaptation to react to, another great film in the same trope as this one. Dan 😎👍
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I CANT STOP. I love this movie too! Why did this not pop up last year?? How could you not know this movie? Youth. It was before my time as well, but stuck forever. If I can’t sleep, I pop in my vhs and Rosemarys lullaby sing me to sleep. Until the Devil shows up. The scary music alerts me that it’s time to wake up till he leaves. Then back to sleep.
Say no more I’m ready to go!! All better!!!
This is a true horror movie. You're watching a person's normal life go sideways & head right to hell & there's nothing you can do about it. Circumstances are beyond your control.
1000%
BTW, this movie was filmed in The Dakota Hotel, home of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. He was shot right outside the front door and died on the way to the hospital. I don't think it had anything to do with witchcraft, though.
The apartment building in the book was based on the Dakota also.
Ruth Gordon, the great Ruth Gordon, who played Minnie, was also a writer. She co-wrote the screenplays to Adam's Rib and Pat and Mike, two Tracy and Hepburn movies, with her husband.
I’m thrilled u watched this! I’ve been sick all day or I’d have watched sooner. I can’t believe u’ve never even heard of this movie but I’m still stoked?😉 I saw this when I was little & was terrified but LOVED it!
I’m sorry you’ve been sick!! Feel better friend!
And yessss this turned out to be one of my favorite movies to react to honestly
I guess what different people consider to be "horror" is really subjective. My definition is pretty wide, and the slow burn tension that kept tightening in my gut while watching Rosemary's Baby sure counts for me. Great script too; even tiny details that don't seem important at the time tie in to the plot.
This is absolutely in the horror category.
"Why would she cover up her vacuum cleaner and towels?!" You're going to find out. 🙂
Ruth Gordon and Mia Farrow are both wonderful actors who've been in numerous quality films.
I am quite fond of Mia Farrow in The Last Unicorn myself. Such a wonderful film.
Ruth Gordon somehow reminds me of Olenna Tyrell from Game of Thrones.
In fact, all the cultists were cast with big Hollywood stars from the '30s and '40s, and all with reputations VERY different from their roles here to make it creepier. Basically, imagine if a film these days cast the likes of Ed Asner, Robert Redford, and Betty White in these roles.
@@PaulWinkle Interesting thought. Diana Rigg is taller and was a great beauty, but there may be a similar vibe.
@@Rmlohner Betty White would be Minnie. I can see it.
(hears changing sounds through walls)
"...hey uh... what the fuck is that..."
Bahaha, I'm only six minutes in and you're already cracking me up.
oh my GAWWWD lol I forgot that I already watched this reaction before!!! 😆😆😆😆😆
When you said, "I'm officially in the I Hate Guy club", it clicked that I'd already seen it, haha. I even commented, bahaha.
It was great the first time I watched it and great the second time, lol.
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Absolutely hilarious! Glad you enjoyed!
Im new to your channel but have been watching your vids the past 2 days. Your personality is awesome and when i saw you did Rosemary's baby! I was like oh someone else's first time??
Thanks for being here and watching!!
this is the sixth video reaction ive watched of yours and im loving them. You are so genuinely hilarious and your reactions make me laugh so hard.
Thank you so much!! I really appreciate it ♥️
@@OGBReacts honestly, im falling in love with you with every video lol. Have you seen the 90s classics The Hairy Bird/strike! and drop dead gorgeous? would love to see your reactions to them! :)
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Thank you, you’re too kind!
I haven’t heard of those so I’ll keep them in mind, thank you!
Wait this is the OLDEST movie you've seen? OMG you need to see "The Sound of Music!" That and "Gone With the Wind" and the "The Wizard of Oz," if you haven't seen those either. Oh, and "The Music Man" and "Invasion of the Bodysnatchers!" There's just so many good old movies!
OH! My apologies, I meant this is the oldest movie I've seen on this channel so far!
Though I haven't seen any of those except pretty much the Wizard of Oz!
@@OGBReacts You've gone a lot older now. I watched your Gaslight reaction the other day (another terrible husband!).
@@HuntingViolets Yes! Now the oldest movie I’ve watched on this channel is Freaks from 1932!
Hated the fact that guy just gave up and let it happen for fame! Then afterwards became a kiss ass towards minnie and Roman and didn't want rosemary out there sight. It was so fucking scary!
Among everything else that this film does so well, I love that it manages to make her husband far and away the most hateable character of them all - and that includes the baby-kidnapping Satanists! XD
Worst husband since Gaslight.
You seem to have missed what Guy was talking about at the end. He had arranged to...rent out her womb space as it were, before they ever looked at the apartment.
They got her to be the devil's baby mama, and he got success in his career.
He did need to drink the koolaid, he was one of the people mixing it for her since before the first scene.
PS: When Guy said she looked bad, it was because she wasn't wearing her hair the way he liked it.... when her friends said she looked bad, it was because of the drastic change in body weight and pallor. While pregnant her face and arms became gaunt. Her skin tone became extremely pale with dark rings around her sunken eyes.
It's possible Guy met with them before they came to look at the apartment and why they did. It's a good theory, actually. I thought they arranged everything after the dinner, but, yes, it could be.
I read the book too & was surprised how close the movie was to the book. The sequel book Son of Rosemary was good too & I am disappointed a movie was never made for it.
Maurice Evans, who played Hutch, went on to play Samantha's father on Bewitched, coincidentally.
Great reaction to a great movie! You did a superb edit, I don't think I missed anything (other than my favorite Guy excuse: "He plays the recorder!" ) :P I LOVE how much you hate Guy, who is played by one of my favorite directors/actors, John Cassavetes. You were right there, feeling every emotion, every note of the movie. Your post movie rap is great. And how about checking out a movie from 1968? The more "modern" style of American movies really kicked in 67-68, with "Bonnie And Clyde", "The Graduate", this movie, "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Midnight Cowboy", etc. So I hope you continue to dip into the 60s and 70s movies, they broke so much ground and feel way more current in style to today than, say, 1950s movies were in the 1970s! Thanks again, I subscribed! Looking forward to seeing what you do next! ("Bonnie And Clyde", true crime, female gangster, gigantic classic, oh please put that on your list! Great movie!):D
Thanks so much!! I appreciate your nice comment ♥️
I’m glad you liked the edit too; movies like these are so hard to edit because there’s just SO MUCH yknow? But this turned out to be a favorite of mine so far honestly
Again, thanks for the comment and the recommendations!! And welcome on in!
@@OGBReacts I was gone for a few days, just seeing this comment now! I've always wondered about what's an easier, or harder movie to edit, so damn.......I can see why this one is tough! But it definitely paid off! PS: As far as recommendations, "Bonnie And Clyde" from those titles I mentioned is the only one I'm really "recommending", I was speaking in more of a general way about how movies started to get more "modern" around that time period and still are very easy to watch. Although all of those specific movies are great and classic and worth seeing, I just was responding to the remark you had made about this being the earliest movie you had reacted to. But "Bonnie And Clyde".....that definitely was a recommendation! Roman Polanski's other masterpiece (in English) is "Chinatown", with Jack Nicholson. (Both of those movies star Faye Dunaway, coincidentally) Ok....going to check out another one of your videos now, if you'll excuse me! :D
@@TTM9691 Thanks for the recommendation!! Enjoy the other videos ♥️
The novel this movie is based on was actually pretty important... along with The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty which came out around the same time, Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin basically revitalized the horror genre in the late 60s and early 70s after it had gotten stale and unpopular in the 50s. It's one of the most influential horror novels ever written. Levin also wrote a bunch of other books and plays that got adapted into successful films, including The Stepford Wives, The Boys From Brazil, and Deathtrap.
Mia Farrow was newly married to much-older Frank Sinatra while making the movie and he was insisting she leave & return to him. Polanski convinced her to stay and Sinatra had divorce papers served on her during filming.
The apartment house is The Dakota, a famous building in Manhattan (where many celebs live and John Lennon was murdered.) This film had many good actors: Ruth Gordon (Oscar winner) John Cassavetes, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy and Charles Grodin (Dr Hill- 1st film).
It's a wonder why no one ever mentions the last shot of the movie. If you notice the camera pans down. You will see Guy and Rosemary entering the building again. Dressed in the same clothes as when the movie starts. As if the whole thing is/was a dream. If you read the novel Son Of Rosemary, the sequel to Rosemary's Baby the novel. It's the same ending described in the sequel's ending.
Ira Levin wrote probably two of the greatest feminist horror novels ever written. Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives. In late 80s and 90s domestic psychological/horror movies became a huge part of popular culture. Many of them were from a women's point of view. One day there will be someone who will write the definitive thesis on why domestic psychology horror movies are a popular phenomenon in American history entertainment.
That scrabble sequence of "all of fhem witches was quite prophetic in terms of the Manson murders. Scary as hell.
THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST MISTERY, THRILLERS EVER FILMED. 🥰👍👍👍👍🥰
Charles Grodin, who played the "good" doctor, said people were always coming up to him to tell him off for betraying Rosemary.
There’s sequel. I don’t think they made a movie about it though. Just a book. There’s a twist at the end. Worth a read.
Thumbs up if you read the book "Rosemary's Baby".
Your reaction.had me cracking up.ive seen this movie so many times 😂