Film Screening: Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Speaker(s): Cecile Tresfels

 Rosemary's Baby was the second film in Polanski's "Apartment Trilogy", preceded by Repulsion (1966) and followed by The Tenant (1976). This harrowing movie,  which disturbingly brings together childbirth and monstrosity, was an enormous commercial success, earning over $33 million in the United States on a modest budget of $3.2 million. Starring Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes, and adapted from Ira Levin's horror bestseller, the movie stages the paranoia over the safety of an unborn child, who might not be of this world… Considered as a horror, yet darkly comic, classic, it inspired a wave of satanic horror staples, from The Exorcist (1973) to The Omen (1976).