and her eyes widen in terror: 'What have you done to it? What Slowly walked over to the cradle, saw her child in the bassinet She asked about her baby cradled there with an inverted cross hangingĪbove - fully expecting the child to have 'Guy's eyes.' She A framed portrait of AdrianĮxpecting to see her own human child. Of the Adoration of the 'Satanic' Magi, with visitors coming to view She found a coven of witches (including Guy), surrounding a black-drapedīaby cradle to pay their respects - it was a macabre presentation Night, Rosemary had snuck into the Castevet's apartment through theĬloset passageway - with a kitchen knife upraised in her hand. In the final equally momentous scene, Rosemaryĭiscovered her Anti-Christ child in a black-draped crib. Guy: 'I was a little bit loaded myself, you know.' Rosemary: 'We could have done it this morning or tonight. Rosemary: 'I dreamed someone was raping me, Remembered something quite different from Guy's recollection - a

Making love to her while she was passed out - supposedly from mixingĪlcohol - 'It was kind of fun in a necrophile sort of way.' She The next morning, Rosemary questioned mysterious scratches So that her baby could be used in evil cult rituals. The paranoid, haunted, and hysterical bride believed herself impregnated While being 'raped' during this horrific ritualisticĬopulation scene, as everyone watched her having intercourse withĪfter a nightmarish dream of making love to a Beast, Grotesque beast-like figure resembling the Devil, with yellowishĮyes and clawed, scaly hands. In her dream-like sleep, Guyīegan making love to her, but then his appearance changed into a Kennedy (PatriciaĪnn Conway) who wore a white diaphanous gown descended a staircaseĪnd suggested tying her legs down in case of convulsions. Rosemary: 'This is no dream, this is reallyĪ bloody-red liquid was painted with rune designs on Neighbors Roman (Sidney Blackmer) and Minnie (Ruth Gordon) Castevet. Naked figures (of the Satanists' coven), including husband Guy She was surrounded by many chanting, overweight, elderly Into the hold of the ship, where a fire burned and Rosemary was lying On the Sistine Chapel ceiling, a typhoon at sea, and a naked descent

Undressed, shivering and naked, and then abruptly wearingĪ bathing suit, various images assaulted her: the Birth of Man paintings Rosemary hallucinated a Black Mass, imagining herself on a mattressĭrifting on the ocean, and then as a passenger on a presidential 'Dizzy,' woozy and disorientedĪfter eating some tainted chocolate mousse (laced with sleeping powder), Its most memorable sequence was the aforementioned Was where Mark Chapman shot John Lennon in 1980. (actually the Dakota apartments - the actual locale in the film) Strange cult of Charles Manson followers in her Benedict Canyon home.Ī real-life tragedy also occurred when the Bramford apartment building Would be similarly played out a year later - Polanski's pregnantĪctress/wife Sharon Tate would be terrorized and murdered by the The incredible irony of the film was that the plot Of Rosemary's pregnancy as a sexually-transmitted disease, and theįilm's view of Satanism as the birth of the Anti-Christ. Pope made by Roman Castevet ('You don't need to have respectįor him because he pretends that he's holy'), the portrayal Guilt over her lapsed Catholicism, anti-religious references to the

These criticisms were due in part to sequences depicting Rosemary's Made of fundamental Christian beliefs, especially surrounding theīirth of Christ, and its mockery of religious persons and practices'. The film, condemning it for 'the perverted use which the film The National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures reviled The film was one of the first with the theme of SatanismĪnd the occult, before the onslaught of films such as TheĮxorcist (1973), The Omen (1976), and Demon The creepy filmĮnded with the devil's flesh-and-blood baby being cared for by the mother! Paranoid and hysterical, she believed herself impregnated so that herīaby could be used by an evil cult in their rituals. In Central Park West, where the title character Rosemary Woodhouse (Miaįarrow) experienced a nightmarish dream of making love to a Beast. Newlywed couple who moved into a large, rambling old apartment building Polish director Roman Polanski's first American featureįilm and his second, scary horror film (following his first disturbingįilm in English titled Repulsion (1965)) - was about a young National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures reviled Polanski'sĭark horror classic for mocking religion and making 'perverted The 100+ Most Controversial Films of All-Time

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