We Need To Talk About Kevin Poster Calls Back To Rosemary S Baby

‘We Need To Talk About Kevin’ Poster Calls Back To ‘Rosemary’s Baby’

By Russ Fischer/Jan. 18, 2012 2:00 pm EST

A new poster for the film has arrived, and the image trades on ’70s horror/thriller iconography to present We Need to Talk About Kevin as a film that falls squarely in the same territory originally defined by Rosemary’s Baby. Check it out below.

AICN debuted the poster. Click to enlarge slightly.

When Roman Polanski made Rosemary’s Baby, there was almost no one talking horror seriously. The genre was a joke, little more than an exploitative way to separate teenagers from their cash. (And, for some audience members, their virginity.)

Rosemary’s Baby is one of the primary movies that changed that, as Polanski made a movie that worked as a piece of psychological horror, but also as what critics of the time might have called a ‘real’ movie.

Here are the posters for Rosemary’s Baby and Larry Cohen’s fun exploitative afterbirth It’s Alive, just for reference.