Rosemary's Baby
4K Ultra HD
Blu Ray
4K UHD delivers finer detailing, vibrant colours, & clear sounds; 'Rosemary’s Baby' uniquely combines suspense & horror for cinephiles.
The 4K Ultra HD version of the horror box set features impressive contrast and brightness balance, cleaner whites and raven blacks while maintaining distinct grain structure. Despite being darker and softer than the older versions, it provides an immersive viewing experience.
The sound in 'Rosemary's Baby' features a Dolby TrueHD 2.0 Mono track, balancing a limited bass with clear dialogue and audio effects in a broad, engaging soundstage. It also blends ambient sounds, resulting in a baroque design that's both hypnotic and disturbing.
Paramount celebrates Rosemary's Baby 55th anniversary with Ultra HD and previous Blu-ray discs, offering retrospectives, insights into Polanski and Farrow, and trailers among other bonus items.
Roman Polanski's first Hollywood film, based on Ira Levin’s novel, showcases European sensibility in its horror narrative. This 4K Ultra HD set features five timeless films and Komeda's unfathomably overlooked score. Polanski's innovative and simplistic New Wave techniques shine through.
Director: Roman Polanski
Actors: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon
Plot: A young couple trying for a baby moves into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, where they find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors.
Disc Release Date: 10 October 2023
all scores
- Video90
- Audio80
Digitally there are no compression issues, while the source is clean and maintains a distinct grain structure, which is occasionally heavy at times (opening credits, dream sequence, and in darker areas)...
Bass is obviously very limited, with the sub barely registering, but it’s there enough to keep the track level without sounding tinny or thin....
- Extra50
- Movie100
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Based on Ira Levin’s novel of the same name, the film was written and directed, in his first Hollywood film, by Roman Polanski, who brought with him a European sensibility and an unfamiliarity with the...
- Total70
The 4K UHD is mostly ok; the native 4K image is not a massive upgrade compared to previous releases, but it does have greater detailing and the colours are deeper and more resolute, with the increase in...
- Video80
- Audio80
The overall look of the 4K version is considerably darker than the older 1080 disc, which probably at least subliminally supports the film's (chalky?) undertone, but a lot of sequences, especially in the...
Rosemary's Baby features a Dolby TrueHD 2.0 Mono track that very effectively conveys the rather baroque sound design of the film, which can blend "everyday" ambient environmental sounds with considerably...
- Extra40
- Movie90
The 1080 disc in this package offers the following bonus items: Rosemary's Baby - A Retrospective (SD; 16:49) offers some background and context, including comments by a host of folks like Robert Evans...
The kind of unbelievable omission of Komeda in the Best Original Score category, however, is to my mind actually unfathomable, considering how Komeda's work can so easily and brilliantly segue from cool...
- Total90
While "mind blown" would be an understatement, that moment actually (no music pun intended) underscored a kind of subliminal appreciation I had had for years about just what an impact both Levin's original...
- Video60
- Audio80
Not one to flush the screen with sharpness and detail, Rosemary’s Baby remains on the softer, less precise side, enough to make this a negligible upgrade over the Blu-ray in this department....
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- Extra60
- Movie100
On the Blu-ray, a retrospective, a look into Roman Polanski and Mia Farrow, then trailers....
The only special effect is a withering Rosemary early in her pregnancy, and that’s little more than chalky makeup....
- Total75
A masterful slow burn, Rosemary’s Baby builds flawless suspense and growing horror in a way modern genre films refuse to....
- Video80
- Audio90
The more impressive and significant upgrade is the enhanced contrast and brightness balance, furnishing the action with cleaner, more brilliant whites and inkier, raven blacks....
Although largely confined to the center of the screen, the soundstage nonetheless feels broad and all-encompassing, creating a wide imaging that's highly engaging and also disturbingly hypnotic....
- Extra20
- Movie100
Celebrating the film's 55th Anniversary, Paramount brings the supernatural horror classic with the same set of supplements as before, but they are all contained on the accompanying Blu-ray disc....
Part of the radical filmmaking techniques growing at the time, which we today refer to as "New Wave" and the "New Hollywood," Polanski's camerawork is both simplistic and wildly inventive, depending of...
- Total80
Although porting over the same Dolby TrueHD soundtrack and bonus material as before, the overall UHD package is Recommended for cinephiles and horror fans alike....
- Video88
- Audio82
Fans can plumb the depths of the horror genre with this collectible box set featuring five unforgettable movies, all in eye-popping 4K Ultra HD, along with over four hours of legacy special features and...
This is a predominantly dialogue driven affair but, there are various sounds/effects included and all are distinctly clear....
- Extra60
- Movie80
Disc 1: Rosemary’s Baby Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc 2: Rosemary’s Baby Blu-ray (Previous Release) •...
Fans can plumb the depths of the horror genre with this collectible box set featuring five unforgettable movies, all in eye-popping 4K Ultra HD, along with over four hours of legacy special features and...
- Total78
This is a predominantly dialogue driven affair but, there are various sounds/effects included and all are distinctly clear....