The Movie: This is the classic horror movie from 1968, and has been highly rated by many different sources, and I'd never seen it before, so I rented it from Netflix. For most of the movie I was drawn into the story. It's not really a "scary" movie in the classic horror film type way. Nothing ever pops out at you, there aren't any ghosts or anything like that. But the entire movie you just get this feeling that there's something that isn't quite right, and it's just wrong enough to keep you wondering what it is.

That being said, I think the end really fizzled out. It just seemed really contrived, and it just seems like there could have been a better way to do it. But as I said, the rest of the movie had me pretty well interested in what would happen next. Also, Mia Farrow was a total hottie, so that made this movie a lot easier to watch too.

I couldn't help but notice though that many elements of this movie were reused in the Keanu Reeves / Al Pacino movie Devil's Advocate. The moving into a fabulous new apartment, the strange, unexpected new hairdo, the slightly off-kilter neighbors... too coincidental to just be coincidence, I say!

The DVD: This DVD is pretty straightforward with not many bells and whistles. The movie is presented in a 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen format with a video transfer of average quality. The level of film grain is consistent with the era, but my research has revealed that this movie was originally shot in a 1.66:1 aspect ratio, so I assume that this version then has the top and bottom cropped. The audio is in mono, and sounds about as good as you'd expect a movie from this era to sound like. As far as special features go, there are retrospective interviews with the people involved, and also a "making of" featurette from the time the movie was made, and that's about it.

Overall I'd say this movie is worth watching at least once, and the DVD is pretty much good only for the movie itself. The 1.85:1 aspect ratio has me wondering if a pan and scan version with the sides cut off would have less of the image missing. Who knows.