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Full Circle vs Don't Look Now vs Rosemary's baby!


Which one is your favourite between these films?
Critics tend to compare these 3 films..."Rosemary's baby" is by far the most famous, "Don't look now" the cult classic...and "Full Circle" the unfairly forgotten gem.

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I find "Rosemary's Baby" one of the best films ever made. It's also very linear and easy for any viewer to enjoy.

"Don't Look Now" is a more challenging film but still excellent. It needs several viewings before it works its magic. This is actually more chilling than the other two films.

"Full Circle" or "The Haunting of Julia" is almost like a combination of both, where there is a linear surface over a flashback that manifests a certain evil. It bothers me, linear wise, that people die odd deaths and then we never hear or see more about them. I imagine all these dead bodies just lying around rotting and it bothers me. Keir Dullea is decomposing in the basement to this date and Tom Conti is bobbing in the bathtub.

I mean, at least start an investigation or something...or have Julia discover these bodies before she plays with the cymbal toy.

Yet all films work at unsettling the viewer in new and different ways not since repeated and I recommend them all. They are all terrific, disturbing horror films.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good (wo)men to do nothing.E. Burke

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"It bothers me, linear wise, that people die odd deaths and then we never hear or see more about them. I imagine all these dead bodies just lying around rotting and it bothers me. Keir Dullea is decomposing in the basement to this date and Alan Bates is bobbing in the bathtub."


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It makes sense if Julia (Mia Farrow) went crazy or was possessed by the evil ghost to kill Keir Dullea and Tom Conti (not Alan Bates!)...if Julia was the killer she wouldn't have looked to find more about Dullea and Conti after their deaths.
There's these very strange shots when Julia is waiting (somebody?) in the hall of her house, just before Conti's death...like if the director wanted to suggest that Julia went to kill Conti...after Conti died, Julia even laughed under her sheets.
Or maybe the director/screenwriter didn't care/want to show to the viewer the cop's investigation, it wasn't the goal of his movie.

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I corrected my post and I'll be rewatching "Full Circle" on You Tube. It's been a while since I saw it.


The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good (wo)men to do nothing.E. Burke

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I've only recently heard of Full Circle/The Haunting of Julia. I'll be checking it out soon. The films it gets compared to (the two in the OP and also The Changeling 1980) has gotten my hopes up for this one.

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