10 Most Fear Inducing Horror Movies To Watch Alone
5. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
An essential entry for horror fans and a film so desperately bleak, that to really experience the despair of and sympathy for Rosemary’s inescapable situation, it must has to be braved, like her, all by yourself.
Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) realises only too late that she is the victim of satanic forces attempting to steal her unborn child, this is a conspiracy and they’re all in on it. Her most trusted companions, her husband, her doctor, even the kindly, albeit totally eccentric, elderly couple in her apartment block are manipulating and exploiting her in an attempt to conjure the son of Satan himself. The point being, no one is coming to help.
The film begins with an innocent, playful lullaby (performed by Farrow) reflecting the hopes and dreams of an expectant mother. Mia Farrow is superb in this role, naive, trusting, desperate and terrified. Her panic stricken eyes covey her terror without uttering a single word and we can do nothing to help but scream pointlessly at the television screen.
By the end of the first act, she has succumbed to paranoia, persecution and disbelief. "What have you done to his eyes, you maniacs?" Only your imagination will conjure up that particular vision of hell so don’t distract it, watch it alone.