About this Event
Rosemary’s Baby (18)
A young couple move into a new apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbours and unusual occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, doubt over the safety and identity of her unborn child begins to fray her psyche. Roman Polanski’s masterpiece of slow-build horror and abject paranoia will linger long once its mortifying conclusion has been reached.
‘Having escaped the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust in Poland by the skin of his teeth, Mr. Polanski was well equipped psychologically to re-imagine what was, before Rosemary's Baby, a B-picture genre into an A-picture genre.’ Andrew Sarris, Observer
‘Weird obstetricians, mysterious night noises and even Farrow's improvised stroll into actual oncoming traffic add up to a bustling nightmare that's spawned many a Black Swan since.’ Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out
‘... A claustrophobic horror that taps brilliantly into the uncertainties and queasy potential threats of childbirth.’ Wendy Ide, Times
A film strand that uses body horror to examine the pressures and terrors of the human experience. Curated by Taliesin Producers, our Under 26 programming group.