Netflix pick for 8/12/13 – ‘Rosemary’s Baby’

Who says you need over the top violence and gore and jump scares to make a scary movie? Why should all horror films have zombies or slashers or Rube Goldberg machine loving psychopaths? “Rosemary’s Baby” is proof that all you need is a proper atmosphere and tone, committed acting and sure handed direction to make a horror movie devoid of all the trappings one would normally expect from the genre.

Roman Polanski’s first US-made film, he came up with a doozy, adapting the thriller novel Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin into this tense, nightmarish movie about a pregnant woman (Mia Farrow) suspecting her husband of making a deal to sacrifice their unborn child to an occult for his own success (a little Illuminati reference there maybe? Blood sacrifice? You know what I’m talking about…), but then eventually finding out that the truth is so much more horrifying that it’s not even comparable.

Watch “Rosemary’s Baby” right here on the Netflix Instant and enjoy this classic! (I’m looking at you, kids! Watch it!)