Rosemary's Baby

Rosemary's Baby (1968) is Roman Polanski's slow-burn horror you can watch online on iFILM. A young wife settles into an old New York apartment and slowly realizes that her pregnancy matters to someone far too much.

Rosemary and her actor husband Guy (Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes) take rooms in the gloomy Bramford building. Their neighbors, Minnie and Roman Castevet, are an elderly couple who push into the marriage with smothering kindness. Once Rosemary is finally expecting, that attention tightens into a cage: a daily herbal drink, an odd doctor who forbids the usual books, a quiet ban on seeing old friends. She grows thin, aches constantly, and keeps sensing a net closing around her. Polanski rarely shows the evil head-on. He traps the viewer in the same doubt as Rosemary, never sure whether a conspiracy is real or whether an exhausted woman is losing her grip.

Polanski wrote the screenplay from Ira Levin's novel, and the film reshaped what mainstream horror could be. Ruth Gordon won an Academy Award as the nosy neighbor. Cinematographer William Fraker frames doorways so you are forever peering around a corner at something just out of view. One of the defining horror pictures of the 20th century. Stream Rosemary's Baby (1968) online on iFILM.