Rosemarys Baby

A nice remake.

Since I love the original and I love ZS, I was hoping for a great remake, I was wrong. This movie is a disaster, not even comparing it with the original, this thing is just all over the place. There was no time for any real character development because there was so much going on. It was like a three ring circus where you cant really concentrate on anything because there is so much distraction coming from all sides. Not only that but it is just not believable on any level, actors were all ill-suited for their roles, especially ZS as Rosemary, she just seems like way too strong and intelligent a person to ever allow one bit of this to happen to her. She does not have the naivety expected of this role so it is just not at all fitting. This new Guy just seems like way too nice of a person to ever do something like that. The original Guy was someone you could see being an underhanded snake from the get go and that Rosemary being too innocent to see it in him, it was perfect casting. The story was too complicated in this remake, just too much stuff going on. It was all just unnecessary junk that did not need to be there, it did not add anything but confusion to the story. There were a ton of bizarre characters added as well, like the cat, the weird dog guy and Satan showing up for cameos throughout the film, just made no sense. As a stand alone film its only problem would be that it was too long and complicated and boring but as a remake it was a disaster. The absolutely brilliant original movie never needed a remake and this flop proved it.

I love that this tv movie release was avaliable on amazon.com. Being able to watch this with the same clarity as when it aired.

The story line is the same but a newer version. It is worth the watch if you liked the first Rosemarys Baby you will like this one.

Casting, acting, plot adaption, use of setting were awful. Visiting creative writer with unfinished book is appointed Chair of English Department--not even a pact with the Devil could accomplish that!

I loved this series. It sort of gives you a different spin from the original plot but didnt steer to far off the original movie. I enjoyed watching this series.

Good Movie, with great acting

Loved the original movie ,and this one was just as good.

What i liked about it, the movie was suspense , didnt know what to expect.

Perhaps that happened because this one was only 2 episodes. LOL Seriously, I could not get into either the Bates Motel or Hannibal. Am I forgetting another one? With 2 episodes, you cant run into some of the problems I had that kept me from caring much about the others. While it was entertaining enough, I cannot see this ever having accomplished what the film did, had this been the only adaptation of the book. There really was nothing that gripping. The ending did what I figured it would: showed you the baby. And there was nothing much to see. This show was ultimately unnecessary but then again, I say that about 99.9% of remakes. The rationale bothers me even more than they do. The idea that a film needs to be updated for younger generations to discover it is just a rationale for laziness. Do books get rewritten every so often for younger generations? No. Do other countries remake their classics for younger generations? No. Nor do they remake English speaking movies in their language! Do many movies outside the horror genre get remade? No. Its all excuses. For laziness. If your mind cant stretch enough to accommodate the cultural and historical context that a movie is set in, which also happens to lend it its meaning and power, then thats mental laziness. Since the late 1990s, when remakes became de rigueur cash cows, the only films that were made more than once were done in the spirit of homage and as an opportunity to play with iconic images and themes. Like Dracula. Many filmmakers felt like it was a rite of passage to do their Dracula. The only remake I really cared for was Cape Fear. While I love Robert Mitchum, and Night of the Hunter is tops, I found the latter Cape Fear to be more tense. Since the remake frenzy began, US made horror films have become increasingly unimaginative. Mental laziness leads to atrophy of the imagination.