With Halloween just days away you might be scouring Netflix for some horror movies to watch. Unfortunately every year around this time stacks of horror movies seem to disappear off of Netflix Instant and all those horror movies you’ve added to your My List (formerly Instant Queue) to watch now, just aren’t there anymore. This year The Omen, The Thing, and Night of the Living Dead are among the horror movie classics to have been removed. No need to panic like a sex craved teen about to be taught a lesson in modesty by a serial killer that’s impossible to kill (or his mommy) there’s still some great movies to watch on Netflix for Halloween. I’ll be doing a special Halloween edition of Netflix Flick Pick from now until the 31st starting with today’s pick Rosemary’s Baby.
Rosemary’s Baby isn’t a slasher film. It doesn’t deliver a lot of death, blood, or gore. What it does deliver is arguably the creepiest movie experience ever, one that will linger with you long after you’ve watched the movie. And if you’re brave enough to watch it again the creep factor only increases as the timeline of sickening events that unfold and reasoning behind certain characters’ actions become abundantly clear the second time through. To add to the creep factor, the depravity isn’t confined to the film. Rock legend John Lennon would later be shot and killed in front of “Rosemary’s building” by a deranged man and the film’s director would flee the country wanted for rape. He is still at large.
The 1968 film holds up better than most films released last summer, that is to say it hasn’t aged one bit. Fantastic acting, a wonderfully twisted story and masterful direction and cinematography never go out of style. Those who haven’t seen the film should just watch it but if you need a synopsis a married couple moves into a building where historically, bad things tend to happen. That’s it, I’m not saying any more. Take solace in the fact that visual master, legendary director and wanted rapist Roman Polanski delivers what is without a doubt one of the best horror films ever made.
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