Drama · Horror · Thriller
American
1968 · Directed by Roman Polanski · 138 min
A young actor and his wife move into a grand, old New York apartment building with a dark reputation, hoping to start a family. Their neighbours are friendly, perhaps too friendly. A horror film made almost entirely in daylight and domestic rooms, it works through unease rather than shocks.
Why it matters in cinema history
It is a landmark of the 1960s-70s paranoid thriller and of the "modern" horror film, directly paving the way for the commercial boom in supernatural horror that followed in the early 1970s.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a study of isolation: who listens to Rosemary, and who only seems to?
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