31 Days of Halloween: Day 8

Day 8

Rosemary's Baby (1968)


I'm getting to my overall review early. Overall, I was extremely disappointed. All my life I've heard nothing but horrors about this movie and I don't know if it was the hype of everything that let me down or the movie.

Mia Farrow withering away due to the unknown baby inside her, that is harming her on the inside and making her look like more of a skeleton than she already was, was pretty decent. The ritual scene that got her into that situation was weird, but not creepy...not even the weird satanic creature taking advantage of her was scary. Just odd.

I will say that while the final scene of the movie was weird as well, the creepiest part of the movie came at that point, where Rosemary was rocking the cradle holding her and Satan's child with a content smile on her face. After fiercely rejecting the child for how it look initially and she found out its origins, she comes forward to actually mother the child.

The whole movie just fell flat. Completely flat. They could have at least shown a shot of the abomination...but nope.


Similar Movies:

Blessed (2004) (thanks to Andy P. for the suggestion)


Up Next:

Scream 4 (2011)

31 Days of Halloween: Day 7

Day 7

Van Helsing (2004)

It's time for some monsters, don't you think? How about a movie that encompasses 3 movie monsters at once. Van Helsing incorporates the stories of Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolfman all in one movie and while I like the idea, the movie was a flop. It's too fantastic, too fanciful to be truly good. It's not scary, kind of funny actually. I feel that the best character is the friar Carl. He's a good comic relief and honestly, the true saving grace of the movie, especially when he kept insisting he was only a friar and not a monk.

I love the integration of the three classic stories: Dracula is trying to use the power of regeneration through the use of the Frankenstein monster and the werewolves act as some of his henchmen. The overall premise works and I believe works well. These creatures supposedly existed around the same time and in many of the same areas, so why wouldn't they be connected. The only issue with this movie is that it wasn't believable. It wasn't filmed in a realistic way. I don't believe this movie was intended to be a thrill fest; instead it was made to be a blockbuster. That didn't happen either.

I didn't mind High Jackman in this movie. Richard Roxburgh (who plays Dracula) is a bit over the top for my idea of the Count and Kate Beckinsale should stick with the Underworld series (she's much better in that).

Van Helsing is a fun movie, just not a great one. I truly think that if you haven't seen it, do. You won't get any scares, but its not a bad movie if you want all of these classic movie monsters at once.


Similar Movies:

Dracula (1931/1992) (coming soon)
The Mummy (1932/1999)
The Wolfman (1941/2010)
Frankenstein (1931/1994)
Young Frankenstein (1974) (coming soon)


Up Next

ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968)