Never ever stay in an apartment!!

That's what i decided after seeing Roman Polanski's apartment trilogy which consists of Repulsion,
Rosemary's Baby and
The Tenant.
Of these i saw Rosemary's baby first.I honestly don't know how i came know about this movie.No,sundar had nothing to do with me coming to know about the movie and he definitely has nothing to do with rosemary's baby,though all his childhood sweetheart stories always begins with a certain rosemary.Somehow i got the movie and watched it.At the very beginning they show it as a Polanski movie.All i knew about Polanski was that he took The Pianist,a war biography or something like that, which gave Brody(remember the useless guy in King Kong) an Oscar which he accepted quite controversially(The wet kiss with Halle berry).Well,i didn't know it was a horror movie so i was very much taken aback when i saw this movie.The movie thrilled me to bone,so it was no wonder i decided to watch all the movies in the apartment trilogy.A couple,Rosemary and her husband come to reside in a new apartment and slowly Rosemary learns that no one is whom they seem to be,not even his husband.They all seem be hell-bent on laying their hands on her baby.The lady Cassavete,the neighbour seems like she has descended directly from hell.Well she is as creepy as that.And it has a least expected climax.My only complaint about the movie being they never show the baby's face after arousing so much interest about it.
Next in line was Repulsion,which,to be honest,initially disappointed me.For the first 40 minutes,the movie moves like a battered and bruised snail,the scenes looked like as they were almost getting repeated.Then the movie picks up speed after it and becomes typically Polanski-dark,scary,creepy and intensely psychological.It's about a lonely,sexually repressed,yet beautiful woman who makes her apartment a hell.

The last in the trilogy and my personal favourite is The Tenant where Polanski directs himself.It has one of the brilliant climaxes i have ever seen.As the movie moves on we pretty much come to know how the movie is going to end,but that is exactly where Polanski shows his class.Even if you don't see any of the trilogy movie,i must strongly recommend you see this one for its film-making at it's best.This one has a very good theme music,i didn't notice if others had or not.

Commiting suicide by jumping out of window,the tenants being disturbed by sounds,the previous tenant die rather suspiciously,dark thoughts,paranoia,madness,strange dark humour are the re-occurent themes that you find in the trilogy.
And finally a warning,if you are a fan of these slasher flicks which have lot of gore and have decapitated heads swimming around,skeletons falling on people and blood coming out of every possible opening ,well this isn't your cup of tea(or is it Tannis root!!!).The word is psychological horror.

Even the trailers are typically Polanski,they tell you nothing about the movie just make you want to watch them.
Well Polanski succeeds in making me scared of apartments,i don't think i can stay in an apartment in future.Finally all i have to say is this horror genre seems to be largely neglected by the Indian film-makers except a few like Ramu,who tried without any grand success.All i hope is films in horror genre should make a comeback in our cinema and yes make life little creepy.