''Rosemary's Baby'' made our countdown of the 13 scariest movies of all time

”Rosemary’s Baby” made our countdown of the 13 scariest movies of all time

More conspiracy thriller than horror movie, Baby nurses a mother lode of phobias. As Rosemary (Mia Farrow) slowly intuits she’s been raped by Satan, she wrestles a myriad of believable demons: uncaring doctors, intrusive neighbors (primarily Ruth Gordon, who copped an Oscar), and a monstrously self-centered husband (John Cassavetes). Farrow’s alarming enactment of emaciated desperation got a spur from then husband Frank Sinatra’s offscreen behavior: She was devastated when he initiated a divorce in mid-production. Meanwhile, Charles Grodin’s turn as a chilly obstetrician made him an unpopular dinner guest. ”When I sat, women moved,” he recalls. ”I had to go on ‘Johnny Carson’ to show people I’m a nice guy.”