One of the great joys of college, and one that not everyone gets to have, is finding that one teacher that opens your mind.  My favorite teacher had an entire classroom watch Rosemary’s Baby one night.  Then she chuckled as we all walked away scratching our heads.

For those of you who don’t know, Rosemary lives in a big scary strange but gothic beautiful with her husband and the whole block is filmed to make you feel uncomfortable at all times.  Rosemary gets pregnant but…. and here’s where the spoilers come in.

She is having the devil’s baby!   Turns out all of her strange neighbors are part of some devil loving cult and her husband got wrapped up in their madness as well.  I know the movie was, give or take, twenty years old at the time I watched it but it had still missed my knowledge of movies I haven’t watched mental folder.  I cant think of a simpler way to put that.  For example, I know what Rosebud is even though I have yet to watch Citizen Kane.  Thus, when the ending took place my jaw was on the floor!  Suck it Rosemary we got your baby and now you have to just fucking deal with raising this demon spawn.

But… but movies are supposed to have happy endings.  Everyone good lives on and evil is punished and credits.  Well, that’s not the way of the real world.  We feel the world is going to shit and its the end times, and there were people saying that in the 00s,and 90s, and 80s, and 70s and so on.  Maybe its a really slow end time.

Point being, the ending of the movie hits the audience just as hard and nasty now as it did when the movie originally came out.  Its one of those rare horror movies, its well written, its unexpected and it is a big hit with non genre fans.  Well deserved too.  The acting is great, the plot is incredible and I can usually see a plot twist coming quicker than a GPS tells you to turn but this movie knocked me off balance.

I immediately wanted to call my parents and asked if they had seen the movie when they were younger (or read the book).  Sure you can bond with your parents over classics like Wizard of Oz or Grease but how often do you get to talk to them about being mind fucked and piss panted?

Yeah, I’m actually calling this a family movie.  When you’re in your late teens or twenties and can handle movies with some intelligence behind them.  Chances are your parent will say, “I haven’t seen that in years!”  and they can tell you all about how good movies used to be.

Seriously, I don’t want to ruin tons from this movie but it deserves to not only be in a top ten horror movies list but also in a top ten movie twists list.  One of the greatest, and I feel now under rated, ones ever.