Please PLEASE tell me you appreciate the coffee shop bit I did...it literally took 4 hours going frame by frame because I don't have a green screen. Prayers in the chat pls
I’m so glad I found this video! I recently finished the book and my boyfriend and I watched the film. I was so excited since I loved the book so much, and the movie has great reviews, but I was so let down! I loved the casting, visuals, and soundtrack, but I felt like it was missing some key scenes. In the book when Rosemary thanks the acting coach for the theatre tickets she is able to come to the realization that Guy was involved in the cult as well, and it was kind of a jaw dropping moment for me. Like you mentioned, Guy has likable moments and charm in the book which caused me to be surprised by his involvement. My boyfriend went in blind, but guessed he was involved early on. I’m thrilled to find someone who i agree with so much, and also get some new thoughts and opinions out of it! amazing review and comparison!!
Yessss a fellow lover of the book! Totally agree with you - that scene in the book is so chilling!! I really appreciate you taking the time to comment and say such sweet things :') I'm so glad you liked the video!
Well I think we can assume that Guy was just so desperate for stardom, that he even agreed to join a witch group. He tells Rosemary at the end that she hasn't been hurt which is also a lie being that Rosemary was made to go through two or three months of agony! (not to mention that even if the group didn't seriously harm Rosemary, the group did have Hutch killed, and the actor rival of Guy's made permanently blind! ). In the book we're to assume Guy was given the tickets by the cult as part of his reward for joining?
I have to admit that I liked the film better than the film also (though I really like the film!). I like how in the book we're able to know what Rosemary is thinking, how she figures out that Guy is also a coven member. She also becomes suspicous when she realizes that Guy has been keeping a distance from her all during her pregnancy, which is very odd being that most husbands would do the opposite. In the sequel Son Of Rosemary Rosemary says that Guy left her soon after the first story and went to live in California)
I know, I wish that there was some way without narration to get a better feel for Rosemary's thoughts in the film! Ooph I remember thinking how isolating that must have been for Rosemary. Ahh I always wondered what happened in the sequel! I feel like I heard it was pretty bad? What did you think of it?@@nicholasjanke3476
I love the book - and there are a few things that are left out of the film that seem confusing. First, there's no mention of that Hutch writes boys' adventure books. He's highly intelligent and learned, but there's a hint that he might be looking through the lens of adventure stories. (Even Grace Cardiff, when she gives Rosemary the book, says "Dear Hutch, everything was a boys' adventure book to him.") When Guy gives Rosemary the tickets for The Fantasticks, it is to get her out during his 'initiation' into the coven. Since there isn't any mention of that in the film, it was silly that, in the scene where she goes for her first visit to Dr Hill, she says, "I went to see the Fantasticks." I love Hutch's character, especially in the book. When Rosemary tells him "I curse you and your stories," he says, "If you mean the stories I write, I curse me too" but that, if it is about the stories about the Bramford's past, she might as well blame the weatherman for the typhoon. In her crazy dream, when she sees the boat and Hutch calling out 'typhoon,' there's no connection.
Note: Guy must have shown himself to be something of a creep to Rosemary in years before, being that in the book/film Rosemary guesses in Act Two with not too much contemplation, that her husband joined the witch club and that he would have his son killed (turns out that's wrong of course) for the group. Heck she doesnt even dwell that much on the fact that Guy says he..............while she was asleep, as if she's just takes it for granted that that's the kind of person he is.
Early in the book, when they get the offer to move into Satans condos, they already had a lease signed elsewhere. When Guy calls to tell the landlord some guff about acting gigs, Rosemary is over the moon at how good an actor, what “…a wonderful liar!” he is. That told me exactly who Guy was going to be from then on.
First, I loved the latte scene. It was very creative. I am a book person and typically read the book prior to the movie. I appreciate you doing a compositing and contrasting. You have a new subscriber 😀
Very entertaining review. I am in my 60’s. Had seen RB many years ago, remembered only that it was horrifying. A friend, older than I am, mentioned that it is her favorite book. Intrigued, so uploaded it to my kindle. Incredible read, but ultimately for me still horrifying. I think that the blending of religion with horror is a very deep creepy. Book and movie are excellent, but I’m grateful that they end. One of my top 5 all time flicks, by the way, is Polanski’s Chinatown. Thank you for addressing movie and book.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it!! And that is such a good friend - I’m happy you read the book too! Religion and horror work so harmoniously together to created such great terror.
You got me in the intro, I just read the book and i love it, and then your video pop up so now i feel watched by the RUclips algorithm. But i love the video so I'm not complaining.
It’s straight up spooky how often that happens after just THINKING about something and you get an ad/suggestion 😂 but I’m so glad you checked it out!! Thank you so much and I’m happy you enjoyed it ☺️
This sounds like a conspiracy theory, and it probably is, but I feel like Google is listening all the time. It might be because my Google phone literally is waiting for me to tell it to text someone. Could have something to do with it. Lol
I just watched this movie for the first time the other day. I was hooked and disturbed throughout, but I truly felt like the ending was rushed in a way, even though the rest of the movie was a slow burn, so the ending didn’t affect me like the rest of the movie. When I saw her with that knife I thought she was gonna go Michael myers on the cult for her baby back, that’s how I imagine the ending in my head :)
I totally get that too. Very eerie and atmospheric with each detail uncovering the cult, then... "HAIL SATAN" and it's like oop guess we know for sure now 😅 Definitely recommend the book if you haven't checked it out yet!!
Oooh thank you for the recommendation!! I think I watched a video analyzing Buffalo Bill recently and they referenced scenes from the book - it sounds WILD. Definitely will have to check it out!
QUESTIONS ABOUT ROSEMARY'S BABY: 1. HOW could a,struggling actor afford a fancy apartment in a building in the same category as The Dakota, The Osbourne? Those apartmenrs are catered to the very rich in the million dollar price range? No way-even with royalties-could Guy buy a home in a building like The Bramford. 2. WHAT exactly is the guy who shows Guy and Rosemary the apartment in the beginning? He's a real estate agent I get, but then later in the film we see him outside The Bramford in his bathrobe at night. So he's a real estate for the Bram, but he also lives in the Bram in addition to selling apartments there? Huh??? Or is he like the building manager? 3. WHY are most of Rosemary's girlfriends glamorous model types?? 4. WHY didn't Hutch just tell his friend Grace to tell Rosemary :"Roman Castevet is a devil worshipper."? 5. Uh... wouldn't Rosemary get suspicous right away at dinner, when Roman says that he's seen Guy on stage and already knows of him?? A struggling unknown actor? Wouldn't Rosemary find that a big coincidence?
Yes yes yes I love the PASSION! Honestly you’re asking the real questions here! 1) SUCH a good point…especially if the place has waitlists, etc. how did they afford it?! 2) I think I just figured he was a building manager? But it never really gets clearly stated. 3) hmm my only guess is I think in the book it talked about how she worked at the agency Guy was at and so maybe she met models on their way to get booked for shoots? 4) OMG YES THAT ALWAYS DRIVES ME NUTS. I think a lot of movies and books would be shorter if people were less cryptic/more direct. But it’s for the ~drama~ 😂 5) hmm that is a good point too because I think he didn’t even get the role, he was only the understudy! Good catch!
@@softnspooky then the scene where Dr. Sapirstein gives Rosemary medical advice at the New Year's Eve party (though unknown to Rosemary it's not really a New Year's Eve party-"To year one!"). There's no way a doctor would be giving professional advice to a patient outside of his office hours! So wouldn't Rosemary become suspicous of that right away?? Rosemary is a very intelligent lady, but she lacks street smarts. Anyways wouldn't the other doctor Hill find it really odd that Rosemary's doctor picks her up and drives her home, and offers to deliver the baby in her home??? Huh??? Again no regular doctor would be doing non professional things like that for one of his patients! And doesn't Hill wonder why it is that Sapirstein has made Rosemary his special case?? I always thought it would have made an amusing scene in an epilogue to Rosemary's Baby, where Hill is shown leaving his office for the night, and as he's walking out the door he notices that somebody dropped a gold pin on the floor. He picks up the pin and sees that it's in the shape of three gold sixes! Then there's a fadeout as he looks confused at the camera!
I can only answer your number 3) In the script - it was Rosemary's choice to only have "younger people" at the party . So what they did was a complete CONTRAST to the older geriatric folks in the building ; thus only young long cool ladies were shown for the most part. And might I add: in REAL LIFE - if YOU were invited to a party in Manhattan by any random group of 25 to 32 year olds - the odds would be GREAT that most of the women there would be either "Model pretty" or at worst "very very attractive". (This would go for the men as well). Just sayin' from experience. Lastly ; you did not question that Rosemary's best friend Elise was Mrs. Bellows on "I Dream of Jeannie" and why was she not back on Cocoa Beach Florida with her husband Dr. Bellows ? The show was still in production at the same time. LOL
That apartment would have been about $1000.00 a month in 1968 . Just to put things in perspective : A cheap NEW car back then was about $3000.00 . A nice one bedroom apartment in Greenwich Village would have been $250.00 (or a little less) a month (The Village was considered cheap and crummy back then) . You could get one slice of pizza and a medium Coke for $1.00 at most places.
Just subscribed because I enjoy your observations and editing skills -- many of your funny additions made me lol -- and this was way more cohesive and composed than the sh!tfest that is Room 237, a documentary that disappointed me after I watched The Shining on the big screen for the first time last week. If you crave a different kind of book and movie adaptation, I highly recommend "Original Bliss," which is a very prescient novel from the late 90s that was made into a film entiled "Gleissendes Glück" nearly two decades later...book by female Scottish author, film directed (and screenplay co-written) by male German director. There are devices in the film that I found inventive, and the differences between the novel and movie are interesting choices.
Oh man I feel you on Room 237!! I think I was into it, and then at one point the theories really just go off the rails hahaha. Well thank you so much!! Ooh that sounds interesting! Is it the film from 2016?
@@softnspooky Yes... I saw it on a whim one night thanks to Tubi, not sure where it's available now. Plot aligned with the experiences of a close friend, so I bought the paperback on Amazon because the dialogue was so true to life in the movie that I wondered how much of it came from the novel. Looking forward to your future commentary on films!
I lived in a condo building in arlington va , built in 1970, some of the older people gave me rosemarys baby vibes, they were very nosey and a little creepy, a older man that lived above me jumped to his death, a lady on my floor the 10th, would sleepwalk screaming for her dead husband. I felt the building was cursed. I finally moved.😳
Oh my gosh that would be so unsettling to live in that environment!! But also at the same time...how much was the rent? 😂 Seriously though, you should write a lil short story about it!
enjoyed your review. Oddly, I saw this at age 10 and it set up strange issues, especially when my siblings started announcing their pregnancies. And that harrowing trumpet was just traumatic. Guy always seemed sleazy, as if he was in on the conspiracy since the marriage. And its interesting how filmmakers force porn on viewers. When Rosemary asks to "make love" Guy is like "oh well, I've got nothing better to do, and the way he throws off his shoes...lol. Don't think I'll be able to watch the reveal scene with a straight face after watching this. Became a fan of Ruth Gordon after this... "Harold and Maude", worth a watch.
Oh I bet!! Harrowing is the perfect word to describe the trumpet sounds in the movie! I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way about the reveal scene hahaha. Omg I remember my parents watching Harold and Maude and LOVING Ruth! I definitely have to watch the movie in its entirety.
Rosemary's Baby is my favorite movie ever made. I love everything about it but after watching more than 10 times I completely agree with you about Guy. At my second viewing I was like: "Why did Rosemary fell in love with him?"
@softnspooky I think maybe it had to do with John Cassavetes don't getting along with Polanski too. At least in a professional sense. John was an indie movie director too and he liked to let his actors free to do what they wanted, while Polanski liked to control the performances a lot more. But that's just speculation, maybe they didn't get along because Polanski wanted a less funny Guy to begin with. We'll never know. (By the way, the coffee shop part was really cool, it could become a format of video on its own. Like "Movie Coffee shop recommendations" or something like that.
@softnspooky I also heard the sound near the ending when she entered the room with all the people, but I didn't spot a clock. I do remember the sound of those alarm clocks, though, and I'd put money on it.
I also would've liked to see Guy grapple with his potential deal with the devil. This Guy can't wait. The only thing I can say for why Rosemary would've been attracted to him is they never really got to know each other. And he clearly never wanted a family, which is doubly sad because she was such a cheerleader, how many times did she say, "He was in 'Luther' and 'Nobody Loves an Albatross.''" FWIW both were real plays and "Luther" was about Martin Luther, the father of Protestantism. Another nod to religion and counter to Rosemary's Catholic upbringing. I also like your take on their "love" scene - it's on a hardwood floor, he can't get his jeans off ... it just seems more difficult than it should, they're newlyweds! Great video, esp the coffee shop!
It is most interesting to read peoples' reactions - those too young to have been alive when it orignally came out. When it came out, it was all anybody was talking about, because this was the FIRST supernatural film by a major studio that involved Satanism. Sure, there were other movies, but they were executed in a slapdash manner. This movie was the start of other supernatural movies - such as The Exorcist - which came 7 years later. But the film that came directly after Rosemary's Baby was The Mephisto Waltz, which was also about Satansism. All these films had interesting premises, along the usual lines of "Faust." Then of course, in 1976, The Omen came out. I never found anything "rushed" about the movie back in 1968. Nobody did as I recall. We were just so fascinated by it; nothing like it had been on the screen, ever. Everything inevitably led up to the final scene of Rosemary, ready to kill her baby, but then, accepting her baby. That part was hard to square, but then..."Mother's Love" and all that, so it made sense.
Rosemary's Baby has many autobiographical elements. Ira Levin lived in a gothic apartment -the Osbourne-in New York, his wife was pregnant at the time, he had an interest in the occult (he once said in an interview that he would get fan letters asking if he knew of real witch clubs that they could join!)
Hmmm life imitates art and vice versa! That's so interesting. The fact that he got letters like that reminds me of the one part in the Addams Family movie where Gomez keeps calling in on that talk show where the guests were brainwashed by a cult and forced to recruit others asking where they meet 😂
@@softnspooky Ira Levin also said that he got letters from fans asking him to explain weird phenomena around the world! Also there is no such thing as Tannis Root. Ira Levin made that up (as he did The Marcato family, The Bramford . )
Ugh I love that! And I remember reading about that too!! Didn't Ira combine two existing plants to make up "tannis root" or something??@@nicholasjanke3476
@@softnspooky In Rosemary's Baby wouldn't Rosemary get suspicous of the Castavets the first night, when the elderly couple are both happy and cheerful and inviting guests over right after their adopted daughter Terry has just been killed?? Yes Ira based tannis root on two different plants. He also bad marriage problems and the marriage problems between Rosemary and Guy in the later part of the book, were no doubt also Ira being autobiographical. I would love to see Mia Farrow and Victoria Vetri do an interview together talking about their memories of doing the film. As I understand,they and Roman Polanski are the last surviving stars of the film. Rosemary's Baby unfortunately suffers from some sloppy editing in a couple of scenes: unless a person has read the book, they won't understand how it is that Guy recognizes Terry on the street (in the book there's a scene where Terry visits Rosemary and Guy in the apartment and that scene was filmed but cut), nor-unless a person has read the book, will they understand what Guy means by referring to E.S.P. when he and Rosemary have desert (in the book there's a scene where Guy laments to Rosemary that he forgot to buy desert (obviously that's his cover so as to create an excuse for Minnie to bring the drugged chocolate. So why didn't Guy himself drug the dinner that he and Rosemary had??).
I think movie Guy's charm was downplayed to increase Rosemary's isolation and wifely submission. Movie Guy did subtly what Movie Jack Torrance did in a big way.
One of the great things about Rosemary's Baby, is that the story leaves two major plot points totally unexplained. 1. Did Terry commit suicide (when she learned from one of the coven-per the conversation we over hear Minnie having with one of the coven members through the wall-that she was to carry Satan's baby) or was she murdered? That's never explained. Nor do we ever learn what Terry wrote in her suicide letter. 2. We never find out what Roman secretly told Guy after dinner that night in Roman's apartment (no doubt Roman was probably telling Guy a few interesting tidbits about the coven and how the coven could help Guy get acting jobs), nor do we learn when Guy actually joined. I like how Ira Levin doesn't spoon feed his audience, but leaves it up to them to figure things out (like how the camera doesn't focus in on the witches breaking into Rosemary's apartment, or when Hutch is suspicous about Tannis Root, and in the background we can see that Roman has become equally suspicous of Hutch from the look on his face, but the camera doesn't zero in on the horror scene, but simply let's the audience spot it for themselves in the background, nor do we actually get to see the baby. Universal and Hammer horror used to always spell (no pun intended) out everything plot wise in big, neon letters but Rosemary's Baby leaves things up to the audience. Opinions???
So well put, thank you for commenting! I love when films/books allow you to use your imagination or critical thinking to fill in the spaces and meaning. It would have been so wonderful to look at this work with absolutely no knowledge when the book first released!! YESSS I love that you brought up the look that Roman gives towards Hutch - such a nice subtle way of showing their opposition instead of being in your face with dialogue.
@@softnspooky Sidney Blackmer who played Roman Castavet, had a couple of other really great sinister roles. In The High And The Mighty he plays a crazed gunman on an airplane and he plays a presidential assassin in an Outer Limits episode who not only murders a U.S. president,but then disguises himself as the president and takes over (very VERY implausible but hey this is The Outer Limits! Mia Farrow:"Sidney Blackmer was the kindest man I ever met. Not at all like some of the evil characters he played on screen."
Oh I could believe it - just listening to that man's voice, he held so much power and charisma in it!! I felt the same way about William Marshall when I did a video on Blacula - some actor's presences are just so impactful on the screen. @@nicholasjanke3476
I thought the ending was freaking funny, you can just imagine how life is gonna be for her with a little child who can do a gutural demonic voice when he's angry and the kind of asshole he would turn into in his teenage years in the 80s listening to Heavy Metal, with Rosemary telling him to clean up his room or else. Ugly Americans did a good spin on this with Callie and her family, can't help but bust a laugh everytime i remember her mother complaining to her exhusband for doing stupid crap or remembering the fact that a Satanic cult drugged her and had her rap*d by the devil in an otherwise wholesome scene
Hi, thank you for this video it is so interesting, as I am in the middle of re-reading and re-watching. I don't know if I'm reading too much into this too BUT, is it implied that Guy is the Castavets son? The way Minnie uses her fork to get guy another slice of cake. Was the whole thing planned, the way he uses reverse psychology on rosemary all through the movie, and that Roman has been to her hometown. Was she targeted? They are such an odd couple. Did they kill Mrs gardenia especially for the woodhouses to move in to the adjoining apartment (the way they hexed Baumgart and Hutch) Did they get a brand new carpet because they killed Terry in their apartment and use the other exit rather than the main one to leave and come back to find Terry. She gets depressed every 3 weeks or so as stated by Roman, because she doesn't get pregnant? Does the pope represent organised religion so all of this was set up to correspond with his visit to NY as he is involved in the cult? I don't know, theres just so much subliminal messaging. Or maybe I'm reading too much into it 😅 anyway I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thank you
I was very much around in 1968, and read the book long before I saw the film. I could go on forever. :) However, I couldn't agree more that I didn't like John Cassevetes version of Guy. For all that Guy did the unspeakable later, in the beginning there is a lot of humour, warmth, and playfulness in the book. In the film, Guy is not anywhere near as handsome and charming, and seems nasty and sarcastic all along. (I doubted Guy was all that good an actor, though he was fortunate to be able to live on his residuals from Anacin - I remember when handsome blokes appeared in such commercials. I laughed, from my first reading, at the scene where Roman tells Guy he was SO impressed by his performance in Luther - 'there was a gesture you made...' Then Guy tells him what it was, and believes Roman was impressed. :D Roman may never have even seen Luther, and would never have noticed him, but Rosemary announces "Luther" to everyone she meets.)
Yes!!! Thank you!!! I am glad someone else felt similarly. I just felt no charisma from the character in the film adaptation, whereas the book character had so much wit and humour. Hahaha good point about the gesture/Luther comment; I didn’t think about that!
@@softnspooky Though I never accomplished anything, I started out in performing arts - and met more than one conceited sort, as Guy clearly is. I can think of two, whom I knew very well (and liked), who would have responded just as Guy did. :D Of course, in the book, we see Terry stop in - she saw his three-day appearance on a soap, and is giving him (genuine) flowery compliments.
A few more questions about Rosemary's Baby: 1. What is the point (no pun intended!) of the minor plot angle about Hutch being wrong about where in the Bramford, Marcato was attacked by a mob? ("Outside, not in the lobby," Rosemary). 2. The scene where Guy says:"I didnt know Marcato lived there " at the dinner table, is that supposed to mean that Guy has already heard of Adrian Marcato before the conversation? 3. Wouldn't Rosemary get suspicous of the Castavets when they put on that wine celebration in her home when she annouces that she's pregnant? Wouldn't she wonder WHY this couple that she doesn't know very well would be so happy that she's having a baby? The couple who lived in the apartment across the hall from me were having a baby but I didn't barge into their home in the middle of the night wanting to celebrate! (and I knew them very well too!). 4. Why did Guy lie to Dr. Hill about moving to California? Why not just say that they're switching to Dr. Sapirstein who we learn is known as the biggest doctor in all of New York!!?? There's no way Dr. Hill would question that! (we learn later in the film that Hill even considers Sapirstein a mentor).
It's pretty normal for lonely old people to get excited for a baby. Especially ones as pushy as they are, who are pretty sure they'll get to see the baby. Old people being way too happy about a baby on the way is 100% believable.
You may also want to check out a REALLY weird obscure movie called Messiah of Evil (1973). It was a "lost " movie for DECADES . Then it turns up in those "50 Horror Movies for $19.99" sets. Very spooky and unique. @@softnspooky
A bit too talky and not enough examples. One of the most important issues I had from book to film was leaving out that Guy was supposed to pick up dessert for the romantic dinner. He even mentions passing 2 stores twice. The statement in the movie about Minnie's chocolate mousse then makes no sense at all - "who says there is nothing to esp?". I understand why authors get angry with their books not being filmed correctly. DYK that Ira Levin wrote a really good, ghastly play called "Veronica's Room"? I have seen it twice. A pair of serial killers, who are incestuous siblings, lure young women to their home with the help of their son (from their union). The son is a necrophiliac who gets the dead bodies. Last time I went with friends I warned them this has something to offend everyone. They agreed. I though Stepford Wives was meh. Read "A Kiss Before Dying". Excellent and has been filmed twice.
Haha fair enough - I'm a yapper by nature, can't help it! Oh, absolutely - the dedication and character/plot building that goes into books, only for it to be glossed over! Wow, I've never heard of that play before! Is the entire play serious, or is there some of Ira Levin's humour sprinkled in? Great rec! I'll have to scope out my library catalogue to see if that title is there!
I love the book. The movie I just like. It’s really dated and that kinda kills it for me. I didn’t find it scary at all whereas the book was and that was probably because you’re 100% in Rosemary’s place and mind. As a whole, I respect the movie but it’s a tad bit overrated IMO especially when it’s compared to movies like The Exorcist and The Omen. Side note: it’s weird how great Ira Levin was in his earlier works like Rosemary’s Baby, The Stepford Wives, A Kiss Before Dying, and The Boys From Brazil then you read something like Sliver and it’s like night and day how bad it is.
That's such a good point - I look back at the horror classics of that period and I do definitely find them a lot more impactful than Rosemary's Baby. It's such a shame too, because I feel like the novel had so much more life to give to the story. Ooh I never read Sliver - what made it so bad?
I found also that the film The Man Who Fell To Earth was much better than the novel which-I hate to admit this-wasn't very good at all! The movie adds a ton of stuff which isn't in the book (the womanizing scientist, the alien spending fifty years on earth, the alien having a slower ageing process than humans, the corrupt company)
Charles Grodin is completely wasted in Rosemary's Baby. Charles Grodin was a very talented performer as we saw in his other films, but in Rosemary's Baby he's given a part that any Tom, Dick or Harry could play. But then again that's the film that jump started his film career (as it did Mia Farrow's who was mainly just a tv star at that time. Studios were always leery at that time of casting tv stars for leads in major motion pictures, being studio mentality is why will audiences pay to see someone they can see for free? The film also put Ruth Gordon's languishing career back on track)
@@softnspooky I don't remember the novel that well since I read it 20 years ago and watched the movie again last week...but in most ways at least I liked the film better.
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Please PLEASE tell me you appreciate the coffee shop bit I did...it literally took 4 hours going frame by frame because I don't have a green screen. Prayers in the chat pls
I appreciated it! And as someone who worked in a café for a long time I totally understand it 😂
@@bonnybonbon hahaha THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I feel like they would always come during a rush too 😰
I really enjoyed the cafe scene. You can tell a lot of time and effort went into it.
@@thebarky1988 hehe thank you so much!!!
I’m so glad I found this video! I recently finished the book and my boyfriend and I watched the film. I was so excited since I loved the book so much, and the movie has great reviews, but I was so let down! I loved the casting, visuals, and soundtrack, but I felt like it was missing some key scenes. In the book when Rosemary thanks the acting coach for the theatre tickets she is able to come to the realization that Guy was involved in the cult as well, and it was kind of a jaw dropping moment for me. Like you mentioned, Guy has likable moments and charm in the book which caused me to be surprised by his involvement. My boyfriend went in blind, but guessed he was involved early on. I’m thrilled to find someone who i agree with so much, and also get some new thoughts and opinions out of it! amazing review and comparison!!
Yessss a fellow lover of the book! Totally agree with you - that scene in the book is so chilling!! I really appreciate you taking the time to comment and say such sweet things :') I'm so glad you liked the video!
Well I think we can assume that Guy was just so desperate for stardom, that he even agreed to join a witch group. He tells Rosemary at the end that she hasn't been hurt which is also a lie being that Rosemary was made to go through two or three months of agony! (not to mention that even if the group didn't seriously harm Rosemary, the group did have Hutch killed, and the actor rival of Guy's made permanently blind! ). In the book we're to assume Guy was given the tickets by the cult as part of his reward for joining?
I have to admit that I liked the film better than the film also (though I really like the film!). I like how in the book we're able to know what Rosemary is thinking, how she figures out that Guy is also a coven member. She also becomes suspicous when she realizes that Guy has been keeping a distance from her all during her pregnancy, which is very odd being that most husbands would do the opposite. In the sequel Son Of Rosemary Rosemary says that Guy left her soon after the first story and went to live in California)
I know, I wish that there was some way without narration to get a better feel for Rosemary's thoughts in the film! Ooph I remember thinking how isolating that must have been for Rosemary. Ahh I always wondered what happened in the sequel! I feel like I heard it was pretty bad? What did you think of it?@@nicholasjanke3476
I love the book - and there are a few things that are left out of the film that seem confusing. First, there's no mention of that Hutch writes boys' adventure books. He's highly intelligent and learned, but there's a hint that he might be looking through the lens of adventure stories. (Even Grace Cardiff, when she gives Rosemary the book, says "Dear Hutch, everything was a boys' adventure book to him.")
When Guy gives Rosemary the tickets for The Fantasticks, it is to get her out during his 'initiation' into the coven. Since there isn't any mention of that in the film, it was silly that, in the scene where she goes for her first visit to Dr Hill, she says, "I went to see the Fantasticks."
I love Hutch's character, especially in the book. When Rosemary tells him "I curse you and your stories," he says, "If you mean the stories I write, I curse me too" but that, if it is about the stories about the Bramford's past, she might as well blame the weatherman for the typhoon. In her crazy dream, when she sees the boat and Hutch calling out 'typhoon,' there's no connection.
Note: Guy must have shown himself to be something of a creep to Rosemary in years before, being that in the book/film Rosemary guesses in Act Two with not too much contemplation, that her husband joined the witch club and that he would have his son killed (turns out that's wrong of course) for the group. Heck she doesnt even dwell that much on the fact that Guy says he..............while she was asleep, as if she's just takes it for granted that that's the kind of person he is.
Early in the book, when they get the offer to move into Satans condos, they already had a lease signed elsewhere. When Guy calls to tell the landlord some guff about acting gigs, Rosemary is over the moon at how good an actor, what “…a wonderful liar!” he is. That told me exactly who Guy was going to be from then on.
Salem’s Lattees! Haha! Love it!
THANK YOU! I was so pleased with myself writing it across the cup hahaha
First, I loved the latte scene. It was very creative. I am a book person and typically read the book prior to the movie. I appreciate you doing a compositing and contrasting. You have a new subscriber 😀
Oh my gosh thank you so much for saying that!!! And ahh reading anything good lately? Thank you so much for subscribing, I really appreciate it!! ☺️🧡
I’m in love with your theory about the dripping water. Good detective work.
That's so kind of you to say! Thank you!!
Very entertaining review. I am in my 60’s. Had seen RB many years ago, remembered only that it was horrifying. A friend, older than I am, mentioned that it is her favorite book. Intrigued, so uploaded it to my kindle. Incredible read, but ultimately for me still horrifying. I think that the blending of religion with horror is a very deep creepy. Book and movie are excellent, but I’m grateful that they end. One of my top 5 all time flicks, by the way, is Polanski’s Chinatown. Thank you for addressing movie and book.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it!! And that is such a good friend - I’m happy you read the book too! Religion and horror work so harmoniously together to created such great terror.
You got me in the intro, I just read the book and i love it, and then your video pop up so now i feel watched by the RUclips algorithm. But i love the video so I'm not complaining.
It’s straight up spooky how often that happens after just THINKING about something and you get an ad/suggestion 😂 but I’m so glad you checked it out!! Thank you so much and I’m happy you enjoyed it ☺️
This has happened to me WAY too many times. It really freaks me out . @@softnspooky
This sounds like a conspiracy theory, and it probably is, but I feel like Google is listening all the time.
It might be because my Google phone literally is waiting for me to tell it to text someone. Could have something to do with it. Lol
Excellent review! I was deciding whether or not to watch it for my Halloween Movie countdown, and you convinced me to add it to the list!
@@newromecinema sorry for the late reply! Thank you so much! Did you get a chance to watch it yet??
@@softnspooky I did! It was so good! Glad I watched your review, keep up the great videos!
@@newromecinema I’m glad you enjoyed it! And aww, thank you so much!!
That was a funny, beautiful and deep review I fully enjoyed. Niw I want to read the book!
Thank you so much for taking the time to say that - just made my day!! :) If you do end up reading the book, let me know what you think!
I have become the old couple who won’t stop talking. Love this.
Hahaha sometimes I feel like I'm veering dangerously into that territory, so I get it!!
I just watched this movie for the first time the other day. I was hooked and disturbed throughout, but I truly felt like the ending was rushed in a way, even though the rest of the movie was a slow burn, so the ending didn’t affect me like the rest of the movie. When I saw her with that knife I thought she was gonna go Michael myers on the cult for her baby back, that’s how I imagine the ending in my head :)
I totally get that too. Very eerie and atmospheric with each detail uncovering the cult, then... "HAIL SATAN" and it's like oop guess we know for sure now 😅 Definitely recommend the book if you haven't checked it out yet!!
@@softnspooky yes i haven’t read the book yet but I will definitely do so!! Thanks for the recommendation:)
Of course! You'll have to let me know what you thought of it!!@@Trewave777
Read silence of the lambs if you haven't already. The movie stuck very close to the source material as well.
Oooh thank you for the recommendation!! I think I watched a video analyzing Buffalo Bill recently and they referenced scenes from the book - it sounds WILD. Definitely will have to check it out!
Amazing! Really liked the editing
Awh, thank you so much!! I really appreciate it :)
Great review!
omg thank you so much!! :') thanks for stopping by my lil baby channel!!
QUESTIONS ABOUT ROSEMARY'S BABY: 1. HOW could a,struggling actor afford a fancy apartment in a building in the same category as The Dakota, The Osbourne? Those apartmenrs are catered to the very rich in the million dollar price range? No way-even with royalties-could Guy buy a home in a building like The Bramford. 2. WHAT exactly is the guy who shows Guy and Rosemary the apartment in the beginning? He's a real estate agent I get, but then later in the film we see him outside The Bramford in his bathrobe at night. So he's a real estate for the Bram, but he also lives in the Bram in addition to selling apartments there? Huh??? Or is he like the building manager? 3. WHY are most of Rosemary's girlfriends glamorous model types?? 4. WHY didn't Hutch just tell his friend Grace to tell Rosemary :"Roman Castevet is a devil worshipper."? 5. Uh... wouldn't Rosemary get suspicous right away at dinner, when Roman says that he's seen Guy on stage and already knows of him?? A struggling unknown actor? Wouldn't Rosemary find that a big coincidence?
Yes yes yes I love the PASSION! Honestly you’re asking the real questions here! 1) SUCH a good point…especially if the place has waitlists, etc. how did they afford it?! 2) I think I just figured he was a building manager? But it never really gets clearly stated. 3) hmm my only guess is I think in the book it talked about how she worked at the agency Guy was at and so maybe she met models on their way to get booked for shoots? 4) OMG YES THAT ALWAYS DRIVES ME NUTS. I think a lot of movies and books would be shorter if people were less cryptic/more direct. But it’s for the ~drama~ 😂 5) hmm that is a good point too because I think he didn’t even get the role, he was only the understudy! Good catch!
@@softnspooky then the scene where Dr. Sapirstein gives Rosemary medical advice at the New Year's Eve party (though unknown to Rosemary it's not really a New Year's Eve party-"To year one!"). There's no way a doctor would be giving professional advice to a patient outside of his office hours! So wouldn't Rosemary become suspicous of that right away?? Rosemary is a very intelligent lady, but she lacks street smarts. Anyways wouldn't the other doctor Hill find it really odd that Rosemary's doctor picks her up and drives her home, and offers to deliver the baby in her home??? Huh??? Again no regular doctor would be doing non professional things like that for one of his patients! And doesn't Hill wonder why it is that Sapirstein has made Rosemary his special case?? I always thought it would have made an amusing scene in an epilogue to Rosemary's Baby, where Hill is shown leaving his office for the night, and as he's walking out the door he notices that somebody dropped a gold pin on the floor. He picks up the pin and sees that it's in the shape of three gold sixes! Then there's a fadeout as he looks confused at the camera!
The flat , I think, was rent controlled.
I can only answer your number 3) In the script - it was Rosemary's choice to only have "younger people" at the party . So what they did was a complete CONTRAST to the older geriatric folks in the building ; thus only young long cool ladies were shown for the most part. And might I add: in REAL LIFE - if YOU were invited to a party in Manhattan by any random group of 25 to 32 year olds - the odds would be GREAT that most of the women there would be either "Model pretty" or at worst "very very attractive". (This would go for the men as well). Just sayin' from experience. Lastly ; you did not question that Rosemary's best friend Elise was Mrs. Bellows on "I Dream of Jeannie" and why was she not back on Cocoa Beach Florida with her husband Dr. Bellows ? The show was still in production at the same time. LOL
That apartment would have been about $1000.00 a month in 1968 . Just to put things in perspective : A cheap NEW car back then was about $3000.00 . A nice one bedroom apartment in Greenwich Village would have been $250.00 (or a little less) a month (The Village was considered cheap and crummy back then) . You could get one slice of pizza and a medium Coke for $1.00 at most places.
I saw somewhere that they originally wanted Robert Redford to play Guy, but they couldn't get him.
I feel like I saw that too! Do you think it would’ve been an improvement, or worse?
@@softnspooky Yes! Robert Redford can actually act!
Just subscribed because I enjoy your observations and editing skills -- many of your funny additions made me lol -- and this was way more cohesive and composed than the sh!tfest that is Room 237, a documentary that disappointed me after I watched The Shining on the big screen for the first time last week.
If you crave a different kind of book and movie adaptation, I highly recommend "Original Bliss," which is a very prescient novel from the late 90s that was made into a film entiled "Gleissendes Glück" nearly two decades later...book by female Scottish author, film directed (and screenplay co-written) by male German director. There are devices in the film that I found inventive, and the differences between the novel and movie are interesting choices.
Oh man I feel you on Room 237!! I think I was into it, and then at one point the theories really just go off the rails hahaha. Well thank you so much!!
Ooh that sounds interesting! Is it the film from 2016?
@@softnspooky Yes... I saw it on a whim one night thanks to Tubi, not sure where it's available now. Plot aligned with the experiences of a close friend, so I bought the paperback on Amazon because the dialogue was so true to life in the movie that I wondered how much of it came from the novel. Looking forward to your future commentary on films!
Hey what's up, which did you like better the novel or film
Novel for sure! How about you??
@@softnspooky I like them both ,equally. New sub ,btw,after watching your EXCELLENT break down.
I'm so glad you subscribed!! And thank you so much for saying my breakdown was excellent - makes me happy!!@@rosastephens8966
I lived in a condo building in arlington va , built in 1970, some of the older people gave me rosemarys baby vibes, they were very nosey and a little creepy, a older man that lived above me jumped to his death, a lady on my floor the 10th, would sleepwalk screaming for her dead husband. I felt the building was cursed. I finally moved.😳
Oh my gosh that would be so unsettling to live in that environment!! But also at the same time...how much was the rent? 😂 Seriously though, you should write a lil short story about it!
You aren't spooky - you are gorgeous.
AWWW you are too kind!! Thank you for saying that :,)
thank you for this!!
Of course! Thank you for watching!!
enjoyed your review. Oddly, I saw this at age 10 and it set up strange issues, especially when my siblings started announcing their pregnancies. And that harrowing trumpet was just traumatic. Guy always seemed sleazy, as if he was in on the conspiracy since the marriage. And its interesting how filmmakers force porn on viewers. When Rosemary asks to "make love" Guy is like "oh well, I've got nothing better to do, and the way he throws off his shoes...lol. Don't think I'll be able to watch the reveal scene with a straight face after watching this. Became a fan of Ruth Gordon after this... "Harold and Maude", worth a watch.
Oh I bet!! Harrowing is the perfect word to describe the trumpet sounds in the movie! I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way about the reveal scene hahaha. Omg I remember my parents watching Harold and Maude and LOVING Ruth! I definitely have to watch the movie in its entirety.
Rosemary's Baby is my favorite movie ever made. I love everything about it but after watching more than 10 times I completely agree with you about Guy. At my second viewing I was like: "Why did Rosemary fell in love with him?"
Right?? I just don't get his appeal. I'm so glad I got to cover your favorite movie!!
@softnspooky I think maybe it had to do with John Cassavetes don't getting along with Polanski too. At least in a professional sense. John was an indie movie director too and he liked to let his actors free to do what they wanted, while Polanski liked to control the performances a lot more. But that's just speculation, maybe they didn't get along because Polanski wanted a less funny Guy to begin with. We'll never know. (By the way, the coffee shop part was really cool, it could become a format of video on its own. Like "Movie Coffee shop recommendations" or something like that.
I think what you're hearing is a clock ticking, like the little alarm clock on the headboard of the bed.
Oh interesting!! I'll have to rewatch and see if that's what I was hearing!
@softnspooky I also heard the sound near the ending when she entered the room with all the people, but I didn't spot a clock. I do remember the sound of those alarm clocks, though, and I'd put money on it.
Excellent review
Thank you so much!! ☺
I also would've liked to see Guy grapple with his potential deal with the devil. This Guy can't wait. The only thing I can say for why Rosemary would've been attracted to him is they never really got to know each other. And he clearly never wanted a family, which is doubly sad because she was such a cheerleader, how many times did she say, "He was in 'Luther' and 'Nobody Loves an Albatross.''" FWIW both were real plays and "Luther" was about Martin Luther, the father of Protestantism. Another nod to religion and counter to Rosemary's Catholic upbringing. I also like your take on their "love" scene - it's on a hardwood floor, he can't get his jeans off ... it just seems more difficult than it should, they're newlyweds! Great video, esp the coffee shop!
I love this movie,despite not being into a lot of older horror movies. Are you reviewing Apart 7A?
@@Grogeous_Maximus I wish it was on different streaming platforms!! I don’t have Paramount unfortunately 😞
It is most interesting to read peoples' reactions - those too young to have been alive when it orignally came out. When it came out, it was all anybody was talking about, because this was the FIRST supernatural film by a major studio that involved Satanism. Sure, there were other movies, but they were executed in a slapdash manner. This movie was the start of other supernatural movies - such as The Exorcist - which came 7 years later. But the film that came directly after Rosemary's Baby was The Mephisto Waltz, which was also about Satansism. All these films had interesting premises, along the usual lines of "Faust." Then of course, in 1976, The Omen came out.
I never found anything "rushed" about the movie back in 1968. Nobody did as I recall. We were just so fascinated by it; nothing like it had been on the screen, ever. Everything inevitably led up to the final scene of Rosemary, ready to kill her baby, but then, accepting her baby. That part was hard to square, but then..."Mother's Love" and all that, so it made sense.
Rosemary's Baby has many autobiographical elements. Ira Levin lived in a gothic apartment -the Osbourne-in New York, his wife was pregnant at the time, he had an interest in the occult (he once said in an interview that he would get fan letters asking if he knew of real witch clubs that they could join!)
Hmmm life imitates art and vice versa! That's so interesting. The fact that he got letters like that reminds me of the one part in the Addams Family movie where Gomez keeps calling in on that talk show where the guests were brainwashed by a cult and forced to recruit others asking where they meet 😂
@@softnspooky Ira Levin also said that he got letters from fans asking him to explain weird phenomena around the world! Also there is no such thing as Tannis Root. Ira Levin made that up (as he did The Marcato family, The Bramford . )
Ugh I love that! And I remember reading about that too!! Didn't Ira combine two existing plants to make up "tannis root" or something??@@nicholasjanke3476
@@softnspooky In Rosemary's Baby wouldn't Rosemary get suspicous of the Castavets the first night, when the elderly couple are both happy and cheerful and inviting guests over right after their adopted daughter Terry has just been killed?? Yes Ira based tannis root on two different plants. He also bad marriage problems and the marriage problems between Rosemary and Guy in the later part of the book, were no doubt also Ira being autobiographical. I would love to see Mia Farrow and Victoria Vetri do an interview together talking about their memories of doing the film. As I understand,they and Roman Polanski are the last surviving stars of the film. Rosemary's Baby unfortunately suffers from some sloppy editing in a couple of scenes: unless a person has read the book, they won't understand how it is that Guy recognizes Terry on the street (in the book there's a scene where Terry visits Rosemary and Guy in the apartment and that scene was filmed but cut), nor-unless a person has read the book, will they understand what Guy means by referring to E.S.P. when he and Rosemary have desert (in the book there's a scene where Guy laments to Rosemary that he forgot to buy desert (obviously that's his cover so as to create an excuse for Minnie to bring the drugged chocolate. So why didn't Guy himself drug the dinner that he and Rosemary had??).
I love the movie. I am going to order the book now. I like your hat.
I hope you like the book too! You'll have to tell me what you think! And thank you!!
Fun fact: there's a few RB Easter eggs I. Gilmore girls and the character Bebet is a play on Minnie with hiw she talks and moves her hand.
Crazy how this movie didn't get nominated at the Oscars
I think movie Guy's charm was downplayed to increase Rosemary's isolation and wifely submission. Movie Guy did subtly what Movie Jack Torrance did in a big way.
Oooh actually that tracks!
One of the great things about Rosemary's Baby, is that the story leaves two major plot points totally unexplained. 1. Did Terry commit suicide (when she learned from one of the coven-per the conversation we over hear Minnie having with one of the coven members through the wall-that she was to carry Satan's baby) or was she murdered? That's never explained. Nor do we ever learn what Terry wrote in her suicide letter. 2. We never find out what Roman secretly told Guy after dinner that night in Roman's apartment (no doubt Roman was probably telling Guy a few interesting tidbits about the coven and how the coven could help Guy get acting jobs), nor do we learn when Guy actually joined. I like how Ira Levin doesn't spoon feed his audience, but leaves it up to them to figure things out (like how the camera doesn't focus in on the witches breaking into Rosemary's apartment, or when Hutch is suspicous about Tannis Root, and in the background we can see that Roman has become equally suspicous of Hutch from the look on his face, but the camera doesn't zero in on the horror scene, but simply let's the audience spot it for themselves in the background, nor do we actually get to see the baby. Universal and Hammer horror used to always spell (no pun intended) out everything plot wise in big, neon letters but Rosemary's Baby leaves things up to the audience. Opinions???
So well put, thank you for commenting! I love when films/books allow you to use your imagination or critical thinking to fill in the spaces and meaning. It would have been so wonderful to look at this work with absolutely no knowledge when the book first released!! YESSS I love that you brought up the look that Roman gives towards Hutch - such a nice subtle way of showing their opposition instead of being in your face with dialogue.
@@softnspooky Sidney Blackmer who played Roman Castavet, had a couple of other really great sinister roles. In The High And The Mighty he plays a crazed gunman on an airplane and he plays a presidential assassin in an Outer Limits episode who not only murders a U.S. president,but then disguises himself as the president and takes over (very VERY implausible but hey this is The Outer Limits! Mia Farrow:"Sidney Blackmer was the kindest man I ever met. Not at all like some of the evil characters he played on screen."
Oh I could believe it - just listening to that man's voice, he held so much power and charisma in it!! I felt the same way about William Marshall when I did a video on Blacula - some actor's presences are just so impactful on the screen. @@nicholasjanke3476
The movie for me wasn’t so much “scary”, as it was disturbing and haunting. Great video by the way! I’ll have check out some more of your stuff
Perfect way to describe it! Thank you so much!! It really means a lot to me with my small channel, so thank you 🥰 I hope you enjoy my other videos!
I thought the ending was freaking funny, you can just imagine how life is gonna be for her with a little child who can do a gutural demonic voice when he's angry and the kind of asshole he would turn into in his teenage years in the 80s listening to Heavy Metal, with Rosemary telling him to clean up his room or else. Ugly Americans did a good spin on this with Callie and her family, can't help but bust a laugh everytime i remember her mother complaining to her exhusband for doing stupid crap or remembering the fact that a Satanic cult drugged her and had her rap*d by the devil in an otherwise wholesome scene
Omg yessss!!! Ugly Americans is such an underrated show!!! I totally forgot they represented Rosemarys Baby in that with Callie’s mom!
Love this review!!
Thank you so much!! I'm glad you liked it! :)
Gaslighting: The Movie.
Hahaha pretty accurate title 😂
I would totally make the mistake of Trusting Mini and Roman. I don't blame Guy for trusting them initially. Mini reminds me of my own grandma.
If i didnt like the novel would I like the movie? The book didnt do anything for me
whoa, was that a nod to American horror story with that Emma Roberts clip?
Hi, thank you for this video it is so interesting, as I am in the middle of re-reading and re-watching. I don't know if I'm reading too much into this too BUT, is it implied that Guy is the Castavets son? The way Minnie uses her fork to get guy another slice of cake. Was the whole thing planned, the way he uses reverse psychology on rosemary all through the movie, and that Roman has been to her hometown. Was she targeted? They are such an odd couple. Did they kill Mrs gardenia especially for the woodhouses to move in to the adjoining apartment (the way they hexed Baumgart and Hutch) Did they get a brand new carpet because they killed Terry in their apartment and use the other exit rather than the main one to leave and come back to find Terry. She gets depressed every 3 weeks or so as stated by Roman, because she doesn't get pregnant? Does the pope represent organised religion so all of this was set up to correspond with his visit to NY as he is involved in the cult? I don't know, theres just so much subliminal messaging. Or maybe I'm reading too much into it 😅 anyway I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thank you
I was very much around in 1968, and read the book long before I saw the film. I could go on forever. :) However, I couldn't agree more that I didn't like John Cassevetes version of Guy. For all that Guy did the unspeakable later, in the beginning there is a lot of humour, warmth, and playfulness in the book. In the film, Guy is not anywhere near as handsome and charming, and seems nasty and sarcastic all along. (I doubted Guy was all that good an actor, though he was fortunate to be able to live on his residuals from Anacin - I remember when handsome blokes appeared in such commercials. I laughed, from my first reading, at the scene where Roman tells Guy he was SO impressed by his performance in Luther - 'there was a gesture you made...' Then Guy tells him what it was, and believes Roman was impressed. :D Roman may never have even seen Luther, and would never have noticed him, but Rosemary announces "Luther" to everyone she meets.)
Yes!!! Thank you!!! I am glad someone else felt similarly. I just felt no charisma from the character in the film adaptation, whereas the book character had so much wit and humour. Hahaha good point about the gesture/Luther comment; I didn’t think about that!
@@softnspooky Though I never accomplished anything, I started out in performing arts - and met more than one conceited sort, as Guy clearly is. I can think of two, whom I knew very well (and liked), who would have responded just as Guy did. :D
Of course, in the book, we see Terry stop in - she saw his three-day appearance on a soap, and is giving him (genuine) flowery compliments.
A few more questions about Rosemary's Baby: 1. What is the point (no pun intended!) of the minor plot angle about Hutch being wrong about where in the Bramford, Marcato was attacked by a mob? ("Outside, not in the lobby," Rosemary). 2. The scene where Guy says:"I didnt know Marcato lived there " at the dinner table, is that supposed to mean that Guy has already heard of Adrian Marcato before the conversation? 3. Wouldn't Rosemary get suspicous of the Castavets when they put on that wine celebration in her home when she annouces that she's pregnant? Wouldn't she wonder WHY this couple that she doesn't know very well would be so happy that she's having a baby? The couple who lived in the apartment across the hall from me were having a baby but I didn't barge into their home in the middle of the night wanting to celebrate! (and I knew them very well too!). 4. Why did Guy lie to Dr. Hill about moving to California? Why not just say that they're switching to Dr. Sapirstein who we learn is known as the biggest doctor in all of New York!!?? There's no way Dr. Hill would question that! (we learn later in the film that Hill even considers Sapirstein a mentor).
It's pretty normal for lonely old people to get excited for a baby. Especially ones as pushy as they are, who are pretty sure they'll get to see the baby. Old people being way too happy about a baby on the way is 100% believable.
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There's a terrible made for TV sequel to this called Look What Happened to Rosemary's Baby. Pretty sure it's on RUclips somewhere.
Yessss I feel like I may have looked at a trailer or clip for it after watching the movie and all I could say was OOF
You may also want to check out a REALLY weird obscure movie called Messiah of Evil (1973). It was a "lost " movie for DECADES . Then it turns up in those "50 Horror Movies for $19.99" sets. Very spooky and unique. @@softnspooky
The book was worse! I couldn't believe it was written by the same author!
A bit too talky and not enough examples. One of the most important issues I had from book to film was leaving out that Guy was supposed to pick up dessert for the romantic dinner. He even mentions passing 2 stores twice. The statement in the movie about Minnie's chocolate mousse then makes no sense at all - "who says there is nothing to esp?". I understand why authors get angry with their books not being filmed correctly.
DYK that Ira Levin wrote a really good, ghastly play called "Veronica's Room"? I have seen it twice. A pair of serial killers, who are incestuous siblings, lure young women to their home with the help of their son (from their union). The son is a necrophiliac who gets the dead bodies. Last time I went with friends I warned them this has something to offend everyone. They agreed.
I though Stepford Wives was meh. Read "A Kiss Before Dying". Excellent and has been filmed twice.
Haha fair enough - I'm a yapper by nature, can't help it! Oh, absolutely - the dedication and character/plot building that goes into books, only for it to be glossed over!
Wow, I've never heard of that play before! Is the entire play serious, or is there some of Ira Levin's humour sprinkled in?
Great rec! I'll have to scope out my library catalogue to see if that title is there!
I love the book. The movie I just like. It’s really dated and that kinda kills it for me. I didn’t find it scary at all whereas the book was and that was probably because you’re 100% in Rosemary’s place and mind. As a whole, I respect the movie but it’s a tad bit overrated IMO especially when it’s compared to movies like The Exorcist and The Omen.
Side note: it’s weird how great Ira Levin was in his earlier works like Rosemary’s Baby, The Stepford Wives, A Kiss Before Dying, and The Boys From Brazil then you read something like Sliver and it’s like night and day how bad it is.
That's such a good point - I look back at the horror classics of that period and I do definitely find them a lot more impactful than Rosemary's Baby. It's such a shame too, because I feel like the novel had so much more life to give to the story.
Ooh I never read Sliver - what made it so bad?
the ONLY movie that was better than the book it was based on was Jaws...the movie was so much better than the novel
Oh my gosh I have heard that! It's just super long an boring, right??
I found also that the film The Man Who Fell To Earth was much better than the novel which-I hate to admit this-wasn't very good at all! The movie adds a ton of stuff which isn't in the book (the womanizing scientist, the alien spending fifty years on earth, the alien having a slower ageing process than humans, the corrupt company)
I`m glad the movie isn`t supernatural. Really about madness
Charles Grodin is completely wasted in Rosemary's Baby. Charles Grodin was a very talented performer as we saw in his other films, but in Rosemary's Baby he's given a part that any Tom, Dick or Harry could play. But then again that's the film that jump started his film career (as it did Mia Farrow's who was mainly just a tv star at that time. Studios were always leery at that time of casting tv stars for leads in major motion pictures, being studio mentality is why will audiences pay to see someone they can see for free? The film also put Ruth Gordon's languishing career back on track)
Mia Farrow is perfect as Rosemary. She has that childlike, ethereal quality, malleable and eager to please. Fine actress!
The book is inferior to Polanski masterpiece..
I think this is actually a case of the FILM being better than the novel !
I love the mix of opinions! What aspects do you like better?
@@softnspooky I don't remember the novel that well since I read it 20 years ago and watched the movie again last week...but in most ways at least I liked the film better.