An Occult Horror Way Ahead Of Its time!
(My Spoiler Analysis)

Simple plot; it’s about a married couple who moves into an apartment building with a weird history of occult activity and deaths. The wife (Rosemary) gets pregnant and goes on to suspect these new people around her are a part of a satanic cult! She has reason to believe there are “plots against her and the baby”! As the film unfolds, we begin to see these suspicions lean closer to her being right.

Before I continue, I’m separating this piece of shit director’s criminal history from the movie itself. Roman Polanski did do an incredible job on this movie as well as Mia Farrow, who plays Rosemary. The baby is actually the child of Satan! How? Well, there is a Lucifer rape scene with hooded spectators keeping her body strapped to the bed. Satan looks disturbing and the scene itself is very chilling. The spectators are her husband and the apartment building’s residents! The filming was way ahead of its time.

I loved the angelic innocence that Mia Farrow naturally radiates. The cultural differences/shift in the 1960s was also crazy to watch. There’s even a moment when Rosemary’s husband nonchalantly tells her that he had sex with her while she was asleep; like it was OKAY BECAUSE… “hey, you’re my wife and as your husband, what’s yours is mine?”

This dude treated her more like a daughter than a wife throughout the film. He took her book away when she was trying to read! WTF! She cuts her hair and as I’m watching, I’m shocked that EVERYBODY insulted her for it. I loved it on her! I also loved Mia Farrow’s body language towards every insulting comment, every sketchy moment, every afraid of confrontation moment; I believed her even when she wasn’t speaking.

The occult aspects of the film were a lot darker than I expected a movie from 1968 to portray; I loved that. The occult members were regular-looking people and that made it so much creepier to me! I mean damn, anybody can be in on this!

I also loved the accuracy in their tactics to have what they wanted. Rosemary was isolated from family and friends, stripped of her identity by not being able to get her apartment together or keep her hair a certain way, she was pressured to eat and drink what was given to her, and she was practically bullied into swapping her doctor for the doctor her new neighbors wanted! Her husband was a major problem when it came to the breaking down of Rosemary. He was in on it the entire time because he was promised success as an actor in exchange for their baby!

But in the end, the baby is a demon spawn of Satan. The occult takes her child and has plans to guide it through the apocalyptic evilness to come 😈 Rosemary does exactly as she’s expected to… she chooses to be a mother to her child. Aside from me loving the ahead of its time darkness that shadows this 1968 classic, what I saw was an example of how women were viewed & treated in the 60s. Sadly, they became products of the environment and order of things in that particular time (the 60s).