Rosemary's Baby currently dominates The Super Mario Bros. Movie 72–28
Polanski's paranoia classic devours the animated IP product — no contest.
The Verdict Decades Apart
Mia Farrow's face across two hours of accumulating dread — the vitamins that taste wrong, the neighbors who know too much, the husband who sold her to a cult for a career — is Polanski proving that domestic betrayal is the most durable horror premise in cinema. The Super Mario Bros. Movie is Illumination delivering Nintendo's IP at maximum commercial efficiency: bright, fast, inoffensive, designed to sell toys and keep children quiet. These films share nothing except a bracket slot. The gap reflects the distance between a film that changed what horror could do and a film that delivered exactly what a billion-dollar brand required. Craft versus commerce, and craft is winning easily.
The Numbers
| Rosemary's Baby | The Super Mario Bros. Movie | |
|---|---|---|
| Head-to-Head | 72% | 28% |
| Overall Win Rate | 47% | 50% |
| Championships | 15 | 7 |
| Avg Decision | 0.9s | 1.1s |
| Budget | $3M | $100M |
| Return | 10.4x | 13.6x |
Where This Matchup Sits
Rosemary's Baby with 15 titles and The Super Mario Bros. Movie with 7 — the tournament record and the head-to-head point the same direction.
Rosemary's Baby (1968) and The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) are 55 years apart, which makes raw box office comparisons misleading. Relative to their budgets, both returned a similar multiple — but Rosemary's Baby wins the head-to-head.
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