Rosemary's Bubby is 50 years old today!

It's my favorite horror film of all-time but beyond that I feel its the perfect mix of subject matter, director and time - it's a landmark film. In many ways it captures culturally something in the air - like Sympathy For The Devil or Gimme Shelter or Altamont. It also is imo a not very good book, that like The Godfather (the movie) totally transcends its source material in a way that's sort of a lost art now - people don't "adapt" books, they mostly just try to serve them which is pretty boring.

Polanski is at the height of his genius here, in how he incorporates the Dakota building, the casual menace of the commonplace (Ruth Gordon) and in his ingenious linking and underlining of the 2 kinds of fear - the "rational" fear of being a first time mother and the "irrational" fear of what Rosemary comes to know. In this way, and despite what people say, Polanski was the great feminist director of his time and philosophically you can see this as one of his deepest and most complex works in that regard - I know how that sounds wrong and people hate that, but it's true (and yes, it's ironic) :

Always in Polanski's Art he is on the side of the female who is always oppressed or silenced by a male - Guy Woodhouse, Noah Cross say, aren't just "men", they are very distinctly cowardly men who either have to take the easy way out or they have to take everything......and Evelyn Mulwray, the unseen Simone in The Tenant, Tess but especially Rosemary have to endure horrors either unseen or unspeakable because of them.

bubby lol

It's a fantastic film for sure.

I always find this to be unintentionally hilarious...

It's a film that disturb me as a kid, and it still disturbs me today. Ruth Gordon is so scary in that film, and that ending man that ending.

Hail Paimon!

uhh..i mean hail Satan