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Since the 2010's, smart, slow-burn horror films have come steadily back into the spotlight, to the point where A24 has created a cottage industry for itself with arthouse-friendly hits like Midsommar, The Witch, and Saint Maud. But in reviewing Polanski's late-60's classic, MG feels there's still nothing like Mia Farrow in the spooky, funny, and weirdly upsetting Rosemary's Baby, which manages to both capture and criticize the zeitgeist of the decade in a way that is profoundly relevant even half a century later!
By Christopher Nichols5
2020 ratings
Since the 2010's, smart, slow-burn horror films have come steadily back into the spotlight, to the point where A24 has created a cottage industry for itself with arthouse-friendly hits like Midsommar, The Witch, and Saint Maud. But in reviewing Polanski's late-60's classic, MG feels there's still nothing like Mia Farrow in the spooky, funny, and weirdly upsetting Rosemary's Baby, which manages to both capture and criticize the zeitgeist of the decade in a way that is profoundly relevant even half a century later!