![10/14/2011: Film: Modern Horror Defined by Edgy Realism of the 1970s - NPR
Roman Polanski’s film Rosemary’s Baby was a huge step forward for modern horror films. It became an icon in part because a major studio was producing a film about the devil, but also because the film was one of first to bring that element of realism to the horror genre, Zinoman says.
“[Polanski] took this supernatural story and shot it on location in New York, and he made it about things people could relate to,” he says.
Zinoman says Polanski also addressed what he calls “the monster problem,” where the monster we often see in horror films is never as terrifying as we imagine. In Rosemary’s Baby the audience catches only a glimpse of the monster (in this case the baby), leaving the real horror in the mind’s eye. - Robert Smith
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10/14/2011: Film: Modern Horror Defined by Edgy Realism of the 1970s - NPR
Roman Polanski’s film Rosemary’s Baby was a huge step forward for modern horror films. It became an icon in part because a major studio was producing a film about the devil, but also because the film was one of first to bring that element of realism to the horror genre, Zinoman says. “[Polanski] took this supernatural story and shot it on location in New York, and he made it about things people could relate to,” he says. Zinoman says Polanski also addressed what he calls “the monster problem,” where the monster we often see in horror films is never as terrifying as we imagine. In Rosemary’s Baby the audience catches only a glimpse of the monster (in this case the baby), leaving the real horror in the mind’s eye. - Robert Smith
