Just in time for Halloween! The Criterion Collection will be releasing Rosemary’s Baby on October 30th.
Courtesy of criterion.com:
Terrifying and darkly comic, Rosemary’s Baby marked the Hollywood debut of Roman Polanski. This wildly entertaining nightmare, faithfully adapted from Ira Levin’s best seller, stars a revelatory Mia Farrow as a young mother-to-be who grows increasingly suspicious that her overfriendly elderly neighbors, played by Sidney Blackmer and an Oscar-winning Ruth Gordon, and self-involved husband (John Cassavetes) are hatching a satanic plot against her and her baby. In the decades of occult cinema Polanski’s ungodly masterpiece has spawned, it’s never been outdone for sheer psychological terror.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
- New high-definition digital restoration, approved by director Roman Polanski, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- New interviews with Polanski, actor Mia Farrow, and producer Robert Evans
- Komeda, Komeda, a feature-length documentary on the life and work of jazz musician and composer Krzysztof Komeda, who wrote the score for Rosemary’s Baby
- 1997 radio interview with author Ira Levin from Leonard Lopate’s WNYC program New York and Company on the 1967 novel, the sequel, and the film
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Ed Park and Levin’s afterword for the 2003 New American Library edition of his novel, in which he discusses its and the film’s origins





I was worried they wouldn’t have an October release to match Kuroneko and Phantom Carriage from last year…But damn, I’m glad I was wrong. I can’t wait to see what they’ve done with it.
I love that Criterion continues to support “genre” films and shedding light on some of the lesser known, yet still amazing titles. I recently picked up the Godzilla Blu, and it is shocking just how good that movie looked.
Yeah, their Godzilla release destroys the Toho one, it’s almost shocking.