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Rosemary’s Baby

Saturday, Feb 8 at 6:00 p.m.

Location: Redstone Theater

Snubbed Forever: Mia Farrow 

Dir. Roman Polanski. 1968, 137 mins. U.S.  35mm. With Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Ralph Bellamy. One of the greatest horror movies ever made, Rosemary’s Baby is a film of uncommon psychological depth that allows the viewer into the fragile, disintegrating mindscape of a newly pregnant woman (Farrow) who moves with her actor husband (Cassavetes) into a Manhattan building with a haunted past and begins to suspect her seemingly normal elderly neighbors (Gordon, Blackmer) have sinister plans for her and her baby. Terrified yet, in the end, frighteningly resilient, Farrow is utterly captivating and entirely sympathetic, on-screen for every scene. Polanski’s adaptation of Ira Levin’s novel catapulted gothic horror into the respectable mainstream, pointing towards a decade of occult cinema, but none of the imitators captured this film’s quotidian terror with such creeping menace and unsettling naturalism. 

Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. 

Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission.