A near-perfect adaptation of Ira Levin's chilling bestseller, Roman Polanski's US debut is to expectant mothers what garlic is to vampires. Mia Farrow excels as the pretty young thing who suspects she's carrying the spawn of Satan, but it's Polanski who emerges as the real star, his subtle direction finding menace in sunlight, isolation in New York and sheer, screaming terror in the miracle of birth.
DVD Extras:
Making Of, interviews with Roman Polanski, Robert Evans and production designer Richard Sylbert.The disc isn't bulging with features, but what there is ain't half bad. The 25 minute documentary was shot at the time and is full of behind-the-scenes footage, though too much time is spent on Polanski and Farrow fawning over each other. The interviews, meanwhile, are newly recorded - - a collection of misty-eyed recollections balanced by some enthralling tidbits.
