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Rosemary's Baby

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Rosemary's Baby	comment	A 1967 horror novel by Ira Levin, Rosemary's Baby is much better known for its 1968 screen adaptation by Roman Polański, the second film in the director's so-called "Apartment Trilogy" (along with Repulsion and The Tenant).Young housewife Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) moves into an elegant-but-gloomy old Upper West Side apartment building with her actor husband Guy (John Cassavetes). Their next-door neighbors are Minnie and Roman Castevet (Ruth Gordon and Sidney Blackmer), an elderly couple who seem pleasant enough at first. Shortly after experiencing a very bad dream, Rosemary finds herself pregnant... and then things get very weird for her.The film version received high praise for its close following of the novel, going so far as to replicate much of its dialogue word-for-word. The film's producer, William Castle, once speculated that this was at least partly because PolaÅ„ski had never done an adaptation before, and didn't know he was allowed to make changes. The Bramford, where all of the action takes place, was deliberately modeled on the Dakota in Manhattan (where John Lennon later lived, and where he would eventually be murdered). Exterior shots of the Bramford in the film are of the Dakota, but, due to the exclusive privacy policies of the building, the interior shots were filmed on a soundstage.The film received a made-for-TV sequel, Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby, in 1976, while Ira Levin wrote a sequel to the novel, Son of Rosemary, in 1997. NBC aired a Mini Series remake in 2014, written by Scott Abbott (Queen of the Damned) and starring Zoe SaldaÃ±a as Rosemary. Unlike the 1976 sequel, it is based on both books by Ira Levin. The original story is also apparently getting a prequel, Apartment 7 A, directed and written by Natalie Erika James (Relic) and starring Julia Garner and Dianne Wiest.It's also worth noting that in the 2017 horror anthology film XX, one of the segments serves as a kind of Stealth Sequel.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_1073963d	type	Psychosexual Horror
Rosemary's Baby / int_1073963d	comment	Psychosexual Horror: At one point in the movie Rosemary can be seen reading "Yes I Can"; which is the autobiography of Sammy Davis Jr.. This is both ironic and pertinent to the story; in fact it's likely more purposeful symbolism and subconscious messaging telegraphed by Roman Polanski to the audience. Because Sammy Davis Junior joined the church of Satan during this period; the late 60s and early 70s; when the movie came out. And he stayed in the cult for awhile, which he understood not to be about devil-worship; but about unbridled naturism and hedonism; about enjoying the pleasures of the flesh. This appealed to Davis during the libertine late 60s. And Davis in fact stayed with the church for years until one of the hedonistic orgy type parties the church threw got way out of hand for various reasons; and Davis; suddenly disillusioned; wound up fleeing the party and the church all at once. All of this plays into the movie's overall themes of the seductiveness and the predatory nature of cults like this and how they lure people in and then victimize them.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Rosemary's Baby / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Producer William Castle appears as the man waiting outside a phone booth while Rosemary makes a call.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_12e0bb9	type	Urban Legends
Rosemary's Baby / int_12e0bb9	comment	Urban Legends: No, Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey wasn't involved with this film, and that isn't him in the demon costume.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Rosemary's Baby / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Roman seems like this at first glance, but he ends up being pretty despicable despite his affected amicability. Hutch is one of the few people in Rosemary's life who shows concern for her well-being and tries to warn her about the coven's plans for her.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Rosemary's Baby / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: At the end of the book Rosemary seriously considers killing Andy and then committing suicide for a few minutes, much like Terry did at the beginning of the novel under similar circumstances. She then takes pity on Andy, after seeing the terrified look on his face. After considering all the options she decides to raise Andy as her own. Even though he's a demon, she decides to love him and mother him and let her good natured human personality influence him, hopefully to do good ( "he's half Devil but half me after all!"). She also decides to report everything to the Pope and the Vatican, and to let them handle the issue as they see fit (whether that be executing Andy, forgiving him or trying to reform him). None of this is said in the movie; we just see Rosemary begin to rock the cradle and look at the baby inquisitively as the camera pulls back, the lullaby cues up on the soundtrack and the movie fades out and ends.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Rosemary's Baby / int_1843bf38	comment	Visionary Villain: Unlike Guy, the Castevets and the rest of the Satanists are principled in a twisted way. They have a grand vision they're pursuing, which all the violence and horror they perpetrate is in pursuit of.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Rosemary's Baby / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: In-universe example. Rosemary reads a book titled "All them witches." When she starts growing more and more paranoid she starts rambling "Witches.. Witches...All of them, witches...All them witches!" and then seems to laugh to herself.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_1af2b763	type	Celebrity Resemblance
Rosemary's Baby / int_1af2b763	comment	Celebrity Resemblance: In the novel, Rosemary thinks Terry looks like Anna Maria Alberghetti, and is told that she herself looks like Piper Laurie. In the film Rosemary tells Terry she looks like Victoria Vetri, though Terry fails to see the resemblance. Terry is played by Victoria Vetri (using the screen name "Angela Dorian"). In the novel, Dr. Hill is described as looking like Dr. Kildare.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Rosemary's Baby / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Elisha Cook Jr. is the building manager who shows Rosemary and Guy the apartment in the opening scene. William Castle is the man waiting outside the phone booth. Tony Curtis provides The Voice of the actor who's blinded and replaced by Guy in a play.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_1c77ec26	type	The Voice
Rosemary's Baby / int_1c77ec26	comment	The Voice: Donald Baumgart, the actor whom Guy takes over for after he's blinded, never makes a physical appearance, but he is dubbed by Tony Curtis when Rosemary calls him over the phone.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
Rosemary's Baby / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Take Our Word for It: We never see the eponymous character, probably because it is the Spawn of the Devil himself. Roman notes that "he has his father's eyes".
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Rosemary's Baby / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Rosemary's Baby / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Implied Trope. It is all by outright said that Guy promised Minnie and Roman something to do with his firstborn in return for better fortunes in his acting career. Said windfall comes in the form of him replacing a senior actor, Donald Baumgart, when he goes spontaneously blind.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Rosemary's Baby / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Subverted. Rosemary comes to suspect that the Castevets and company are planning to sacrifice her baby, but she's wrong. After all, why would they kill The Antichrist, the one who they hope will bring Satan's reign on Earth? She had the right genre, after all — she just didn't realize she had more of a starring role.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Rosemary's Baby / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Guy and Rosemary spend their nights playing Scrabble. She later uses the pieces to figure out the anagram involving Roman Castevet's name. When Hutch visits Rosemary, he loses his glove somewhere in her apartment. Shortly afterwards, he falls into a coma. The connection between the two events only makes sense once it's revealed that the Satanists can only affect other people if they can get their hands into one of their victims' possessions. The hall closet seen in the beginning of the film has a secret passage to the Castevets apartment. Rosemary goes through it in order to finally find out the truth about what her neighbours did to her son. The manually-operated elevator. Rosemary uses it to escape from Guy and Dr. Sapirstein when they return to the apartment building. The knife rack in the kitchen. Rosemary uses one of the knives in the end to defend herself from the satanists while locating her baby.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_22ebf5bc	type	Japanese Tourist
Rosemary's Baby / int_22ebf5bc	comment	Japanese Tourist: One of the Satanists at the end is a Japanese tourist who smiles and snaps photographs of the Antichrist.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
Rosemary's Baby / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: The Castavets give Rosemary a chocolate mousse laced with a sedative. Rosemary discreetly disposes of it when she notices that it has a chalky taste, but she's still consumed enough of it to be unable to resist when Satan impregnates her while's she's still sleeping. The two chocolate mousse jars have different toppings, supposedly so that Guy makes sure Rosemary gets the one with the "chalky under-taste".
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Rosemary's Baby / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Rosemary's Baby / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Rosemary becomes suspicious of her husband and the neighbors he's befriended and tries to protect her unborn baby from them. Everyone who is inclined to help her dies or is horribly injured. She discovers her suspicions are all too horribly true - in fact, worse, because she thinks they're "only" going to sacrifice her baby - and tries to escape, but fails. She births the antichrist, and it falls directly into the hands of Satanists.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Rosemary's Baby / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: The Castevets appear to be a friendly elderly couple and warmly welcome Rosemary into their apartment building. In reality, they are cultists who target women whom they believe to be capable of bearing Satan's child. After gaining Rosemary's trust, they drug her, subject her to a ritual where she is impregnated by Satan, and take measures to ensure the baby's birth, never displaying any concern for Rosemary herself.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Rosemary's Baby / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: The cultists succeed in their plan to spawn the Antichrist — and it seems that they've drawn Rosemary herself into their ranks. The novel plays with it a little. While Rosemary does agree to raise her baby, it's because she hopes that she can influence him to reject his destiny and embrace his human side. This is shown when she demands that the baby be named Andrew (instead of "Adrian", after the cult's founder) and not wear black all of the time.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_2edf787f	type	Significant Birth Date
Rosemary's Baby / int_2edf787f	comment	Significant Birth Date: Rosemary gives birth on June 25 — the Anti-Christmas — in the sixth month of the year 1966 (6/66). The movie begins in 1965 and during the New Year's Eve party, Roman says, "Happy new year, 1966! Year one!" This is a nod to Anton La Vey and the Church of Satan, since Anton considered 1966 "Year One" because 1966 is when he established the Church of Satan. According to the novel, an old Satanic prophecy pinpointed this date for the birth of the Antichrist.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_2f75473	type	Number of the Beast
Rosemary's Baby / int_2f75473	comment	Number of the Beast: Present throughout, right down to Rosemary's due date: 6/66.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_32987ad9	type	Family Eye Resemblance
Rosemary's Baby / int_32987ad9	comment	Family Eye Resemblance: Roman says of the title spawn of the Devil that "He has his father's eyes".
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Rosemary's Baby / int_3529edef	type	Satanic Panic
Rosemary's Baby / int_3529edef	comment	Satanic Panic: Trope Codifier. The panic that Rosemary undergoes is very real in-universe, but the popularity of the book and film helped to support panic around Satanic cults and particularly their interest in babies/children.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_3618ebb9	type	TheSixties
Rosemary's Baby / int_3618ebb9	comment	The '60s: If you lived in New York City in the mid-1960s, you'll feel right at home. Levin weaves in references to the newspaper strikes, the great blackout, the JFK assassination, and Pope Paul VI's visit to Yankee Stadium. We also see cigarette commercials on television, and Rosemary gets a blood test to see if she's pregnant, two things that have dropped out of society.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_38305779	type	Baby as Payment
Rosemary's Baby / int_38305779	comment	Baby as Payment: It's heavily implied that Guy promised the baby Antichrist to the Castevets as something in exchange for a boost in his career.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Rosemary's Baby / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Rosemary says to Terry Gionoffrio, "I thought you were Victoria Vetri, the actress," to which Terry responds, "Everyone says that, but I don't see the resemblance." Terry is indeed played by actress Victoria Vetri (under the name Angela Dorian).note In the novel, Rosemary compares Terry to a young Anna Maria Alberghetti, but the real Alberghetti was thirty at the time — too old to play teenage Terry. Rosemary says that her short pixie haircut is from Vidal Sassoon. While the novel also mentions the character's Vidal Sassoon haircut, this refers to a famous publicity stunt during filming, in which Sassoon himself flew out from London to cut Mia Farrow's hair in a boxing ring. According to the actress, she'd actually already cut the hair years before, and Sassoon only trimmed it for the camera. Maurice Evans plays Rosemary's longtime friend and father figure Hutch, who tries to warn her about the Bramford and also gives her the book about Steven Marcato before the coven kills him off. Maurice was also a recurring character on Bewitched, Samantha's father Maurice, when this movie came out. Ironically, Bewitched was a show about witches, just like Rosemary's Baby was. Although on Bewitched he was a witch, and in Rosemary's Baby he was a witch hunter.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
Rosemary's Baby / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: Minnie's friend Laura-Louise is quite immature for an old minion of Satan, poking her tongue at Rosemary and acting like an unpleasant brat. It's implied that she's deeply jealous of her for getting to birth the son of Satan.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
Rosemary's Baby / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: The deaths of Mrs. Gardenia and Hutch and the blindness of Donald Baumgart were apparently caused by spells cast by the coven but were assumed to be naturally caused.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_408ba21c	type	Womb Horror
Rosemary's Baby / int_408ba21c	comment	Womb Horror: Rosemary's pregnancy becomes a nightmare, as she fears a Satanic coven has designs on her unborn child. More literally, she's also in agonizing pain for a large part of the pregnancy and becomes very ill.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_41a32b6	type	Mystical Pregnancy
Rosemary's Baby / int_41a32b6	comment	Mystical Pregnancy: Rosemary is prescribed mysterious drugs by her doctor during her pregnancy, which she comes to suspect aren't legitimate treatments but something more sinister...but it is too late, and she births The Antichrist.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_41be2c1b	comment	Spoiler Title: In Spain this film was titled La Semilla del Diablo (The Devil's Seed), thus giving away the big surprise of the film.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
Rosemary's Baby / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: The ending is abbreviated, making it more ambiguous about how Rosemary feels about her child than it was in the novel. The book's Rosemary states her intention to raise her child and be as much of a positive influence on him as possible. This possibly happens to film Rosemary too, or she could simply have given up or been converted to the cult's power, or surrendered her child after a film of fighting. It just isn't clear.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_424feb18	type	That Was Not a Dream
Rosemary's Baby / int_424feb18	comment	That Was Not a Dream: Rosemary thinks she is dreaming at the ceremony where she becomes pregnant, but for an instant realizes she is not. Much later, after she sees her child, she remembers that moment and knows it was all real.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
Rosemary's Baby / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: Played with. Rosemary cutting her hair to a pixie isn't done out of a desire for character growth or changing her life; she just gets it because it's fashionable. However, Guy's negative reaction to it mark it as a sign of her autonomy being frowned upon. In the film, her hairstyle stays this way. In the book, it is implied that her hair grows back down to her shoulders by the time she gives birth.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_47060811	type	Screaming Birth
Rosemary's Baby / int_47060811	comment	Screaming Birth: Reconstructed. The birth is obviously extremely physically hard on Rosemary, but more significantly, she's screaming because she's surrounded by Satanists and is completely powerless to stop them. This is the line that's made it into "100 Greatest Moments in Film" clipreels.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_4aa98555	type	Evil All Along
Rosemary's Baby / int_4aa98555	comment	Dr. Hill appears to take a turn toward evil when he returns Rosemary to the hands of the cult. Rosemary briefly believes that that he's secretly part of the cult, but it's nothing more than the routine sexism of the era: he took Guy's word over Rosemary's.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_4b1afa0d	type	Spiteful Spit
Rosemary's Baby / int_4b1afa0d	comment	Spiteful Spit: Rosemary spits in Guy's face when he tries to defend his actions.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_4dbd3706	type	Clap Your Hands If You Believe
Rosemary's Baby / int_4dbd3706	comment	Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Inverted with Rosemary. She was raised Catholic but has drifted away from the church, and the Castevets find her a ripe target. Meanwhile, her staunchly Catholic sister can sense that Rosemary is in danger but Rosemary doesn't get anything of the sort.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Rosemary's Baby / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Hutch and Terry are killed by the cult, and Laura-Louise threatens Rosemary that they'll kill her, milk or no milk, if she doesn't stop crying "Oh, God." (Minnie immediately chastises Laura-Louise and tells her to shut up and show some respect, again handing Rosemary a clue that she has some power.) While it's possible that Rosemary can save herself, she appears completely, permanently traumatized.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Two. When Rosemary contacts Guy's film role rival Donald to apologize for his blindness, she learns Guy hasn't exactly been truthful: When the nurse compliments Rosemary of her good luck charm scent and then tells her that Dr. Sapirstein's aftershave has the exact same scent:
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Rosemary's Baby / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Rosemary spelling with the scrabble tiles Steven Marcato and Roman Castevet.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_52db461d	type	Significant Anagram
Rosemary's Baby / int_52db461d	comment	Significant Anagram: Steven Marcato the warlock. Roman Castevet the neighbor. They're one and the same. Hutch's message about the anagram. AS previously reported, the book name really is an anagram. Also, Tannis is an anagram for Santin or Satinn, both of which were ancient names / spellings of Satan. During the telephone booth scene, Rosemary can be seen mouthing numbers as she dials Dr. Hill's office on a rotary telephone, specifically, "Four...three...seven...seven." 4377 turned upside-down spells "hell" (4 representing an "h," 3 representing an "e," and the 7s representing two Ls). When Rosemary receives the book "All of Them Witches," she is told that 'the name is an anagram.' At first she tries to rearrange the letters of the book's title, but then realizes that the clue referred to a name within the book. However, the title actually is an anagram for "A Hell Cometh Swift".
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Rosemary's Baby / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Rosemary's Baby / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The movie opens with a long, sweeping pan across the Midtown Manhattan skyline, accompanied by Rosemary's eerie singing, and ends with what is essentially a reverse of the shot, with the same soundtrack.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Rosemary's Baby / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: All of the witches are revealed in the end to have the exact same personalities as they displayed all along; they're just also worshipers of Satan. The Castavets, in particular, maintain their casual and friendly personalities.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_5735378d	type	Haunted House Historian
Rosemary's Baby / int_5735378d	comment	Haunted House Historian: Hutch tells Rosemary and Guy all about the Bramford's history, including a pair of sisters who cooked and ate children, a dead baby found in the basement, and a warlock named Adrian Marcato who claimed to have conjured Satan. Turns out that last one is more relevant to their lives than any of them could suspect.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
Rosemary's Baby / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: We never see Rosemary's baby's face. We're only told it has the eyes, hands, and feet of Satan. In the book, he also has a tail and horn buds.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_5a4ae281	type	Hellish Pupils
Rosemary's Baby / int_5a4ae281	comment	Hellish Pupils: The Devil, while mating with Rosemary, is shown to have yellowish cat-like eyes. Their baby is stated to have inherited them as well.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_5a852047	type	Sliding Scale of Adaptation Modification
Rosemary's Baby / int_5a852047	comment	Sliding Scale of Adaptation Modification: Type 5: the film adaptation is extremely faithful to the original book, to the point that the book reads more like a Novelization of the film.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
Rosemary's Baby / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: Rosemary has a dream where she's drugged and undressed by Guy and the cult members, and then raped in her sleep by the devil. She later awakens to discover that she is pregnant, but Guy goes along with her assumption that he "went ahead and did it."
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Rosemary's Baby / int_5ecabcc0	type	One Drink Will Kill the Baby
Rosemary's Baby / int_5ecabcc0	comment	One Drink Will Kill the Baby: A frustrated Rosemary ditches Minnie's mysterious herbal smoothie in favor of her own drink, which contains a dollop of sherry. Later, when her abdominal pain abruptly stops, her first thought is that she killed the baby with booze.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_611a1a5e	type	Nosy Neighbor
Rosemary's Baby / int_611a1a5e	comment	Nosy Neighbor: Minnie and Roman insert themselves into the lives of the Woodhouses, much to Rosemary's annoyance.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_61996785	type	Sacrificial Lamb
Rosemary's Baby / int_61996785	comment	Sacrificial Lamb: Terry Gionoffrio only appears in a single scene before being killed off. Her death is a hint that there is something very sinister about the Castevets.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
Rosemary's Baby / int_619985d7	comment	Sacrificial Lion: Hutch is one of the few people who is not trying to manipulate Rosemary in any way and actually helps her figure out what is really going on. Unfortunately, the villains quickly realize he is a threat to their scheme and kill him.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_630447d4	type	Tongue-Out Insult
Rosemary's Baby / int_630447d4	comment	Tongue-Out Insult: Laura-Louise sticks her tongue out at Rosemary when Roman lets Rosemary rock the baby.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
Rosemary's Baby / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: After Guy receives the phone call about actor Donald Baumgart having gone blind, he leaves the apartment to go for a walk. In the novel, Rosemary sits on the living room window seat waiting to see Guy come out the main entrance, but never spots him. "He must have taken the exit towards 55th street." This could symbolize that Guy instead has visited the Castevets, or it's a literal clue that Guy now has become unpredictable to Rosemary. In the film, moments after Guy leaves the apartment, we hear a neighbor's doorbell ring. In the very next scene Rosemary rings the Castevets' doorbell. This is a "tell" referring to where Guy went in the preceding scene —to warn the Castevets of Rosemary's planned meeting with Hutch, and to set in motion the hexing of him via the glove Guy had stolen from Hutch. In the novel, Minnie deduces that Rosemary has found out about Roman's father because of Rosemary's sudden behavioral distance. Minnie confronts Rosemary about it, condemning Adrian Marcato, saying, "I could kill that crazy old man if he wasn't dead already; he's been the bane of poor Roman's existence!" and further explains that that's the reason for the Castevets' persistent traveling because they can't stay in one place for too long without people finding out.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_69806c03	type	Cold Reading
Rosemary's Baby / int_69806c03	comment	Cold Reading: At dinner, Roman uses a variation on this to stroke Guy's ego and gain his confidence. Roman, knowing that Guy was in Luther, lies about having seen the play, incorrectly guesses that Guy was Albert Finney's understudy, but then claims that he remembered seeing Guy make a certain gesture during the play (of course a stage actor's going to give a character a specific gesture, and is going to be impressed with someone who claims he noticed it), then lets Guy fill in the details on what the gesture was.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_6acebb1e	type	Mistaken for Insane
Rosemary's Baby / int_6acebb1e	comment	Mistaken for Insane: After figuring out Roman's true identity, Rosemary flees from Guy and the rest of the Satanic cult to Dr Hill, the doctor she'd seen earlier. She tells him everything and he seems to believe her...at least until she mentions Dr Sapirstein's name. He tells her he'll send her to a hospital, which Rosemary is (unusually for this trope) perfectly happy with, as it will allow her to give birth in private. Unfortunately, Dr Hill calls Guy and Dr Sapirstein instead, allowing them to take the apparently "hysterical" Rosemary home.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Rosemary's Baby / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: "To 1966! The Year Is One!" Stated as a pregnant Rosemary rings in the new year 1966 with Guy and their neighbors the Castevets. The second time is much more sinister. When Rosemary discovers the satanic cult and learns the awful truth about her newborn child being the Antichrist, Roman chants "God is dead! Satan lives! The Year Is One! Hail, Satan!" along with the rest of his cult.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Rosemary's Baby / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Rosemary, combining the name of the mother of Jesus with a plant that has thorns, which are pointed and sharp just like the horns that certain creatures might have on their heads. It's also the name of an herb, and herbs play a role in the story. Rosemary is for "remembrance" and it's when she puts her memories of recent events together, literally days before she gives birth, that things start to add up. Guy ends up being no one of importance, as Rosemary is the mother and Satan is the father. He's just a guy. Mrs. Gardenia grew and tended plants. In the book, her first name was Lily. Adrian (a.k.a. Andy) is named after Adrian Marcato, Roman's father, an infamous Satan worshipper and witch.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_726ac70d	type	Supernatural-Proof Father
Rosemary's Baby / int_726ac70d	comment	Supernatural-Proof Father: Subverted. Guy tries to convince Rosemary that nothing strange is going on with their neighbors next door and that all of the other disturbing things that happen to her during her pregnancy are in her mind. However, he knows that they are really part of a devil-worshipping cult, and he's promised the baby to them.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
Rosemary's Baby / int_727a65e0	comment	Gaslighting: The Movie. Rosemary is gaslighted by everyone around her through the entire film (with the very few exceptions being her friends and Hutch), with everybody constantly denying and brushing off all of her accurate suspicions and complaints.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
Rosemary's Baby / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: The arguments between the Castevets that Rosemary hears through the walls suggest Roman might be one.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Rosemary's Baby / int_77468805	comment	God Is Dead: In a doctor's waiting room, Rosemary reads a magazine with a cover asking, "Is God Dead?" (an actual Time magazine issue from 1966). In the end, Roman joyously proclaims, "God is dead!"
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Rosemary's Baby / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
Rosemary's Baby / int_7b8b3def	comment	In the film Rosemary tells Terry she looks like Victoria Vetri, though Terry fails to see the resemblance. Terry is played by Victoria Vetri (using the screen name "Angela Dorian").
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Rosemary's Baby / int_7c9158c6	type	Anti-Anti-Christ
Rosemary's Baby / int_7c9158c6	comment	Anti-Anti-Christ: What Rosemary might hope to raise her child as, assuming she's not totally defeated at the end.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Rosemary's Baby / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Ruth Gordon as Minnie Castavet, and it earns her an Academy Award.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
Rosemary's Baby / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Discussed. Rosemary has been in pain since November but she refuses to have an abortion. Her friends at the party tell her that no one was even suggesting an abortion and that she should simply get a new doctor.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Rosemary's Baby / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Castevets—bubbly, friendly, garrulous Minnie and aloof, quieter Roman. Rosemary is a mousy, unsophisticated housewife who wants nothing more than her pretty apartment, her handsome husband, and a baby, while Guy is a charismatic and ambitious actor in pursuit of bigger roles and more prestige.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_84f0346f	type	Apartment Complex of Horrors
Rosemary's Baby / int_84f0346f	comment	Apartment Complex of Horrors: The Dakota in New York is revealed to be the operating grounds of a Satanic cult and has been since at least the turn of the century. Rosemary and Guy's neighbors, the Castavets and their Satanists use a hidden door between the two apartments to go backwards and forwards to facilitate Rosemary's demonic rape and the faked death of the newborn Adrian.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_864aa9	type	Hellevator
Rosemary's Baby / int_864aa9	comment	Hellevator: When Rosemary packs a suitcase and goes to see the doctor, she takes the elevator to go down and the light glows red.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_8c8bd091	type	Fetus Terrible
Rosemary's Baby / int_8c8bd091	comment	Fetus Terrible: The pregnancy causes Rosemary severe pain, negatively impacting both her physical appearance and mental state. Justified by the fact she is carrying Satan's child.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_906ed7b4	type	Apocalypse Maiden
Rosemary's Baby / int_906ed7b4	comment	Apocalypse Maiden: The entire plan is to have Rosemary fulfil this role by being the mother of Satan's child.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_91db89a0	type	The Three Wise Men
Rosemary's Baby / int_91db89a0	comment	The Three Wise Men: The final scene is staged as a semi-parody of the Nativity, complete with visitors from the East: a Japanese man (named Hayato in the novel, but unnamed in the film) and a Greek guy named Argyron Stavropoulos.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Rosemary's Baby / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Laura-Louise. Unlike the other cult members, whose mostly nice personalities all seem genuine, she becomes far more openly hostile after The Reveal. It's to the point that Roman has to tell her to cut it out.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Rosemary's Baby / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: When Guy comes home early while Hutch is visiting, (which we learn later was purposeful and was his opportunity to steal Hutch's glove for black magic/curse purposes) Right after Hutch leaves, Guy makes an excuse of wanting ice cream and leaves as well. If you listen closely, shortly after he has left you can hear the faint sound of a doorbell. He is ringing the door of the Castavets in order to give them Hutch's glove.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_98aaf983	type	Comically Small Bribe
Rosemary's Baby / int_98aaf983	comment	Comically Small Bribe: A non-comedic example. Guy allows his wife to be raped and impregnated by Satan, so she can bear the Antichrist. Does he get power? Riches? Fame? Nope. He gets a part in a play. A small but important play, the kind of thing that gets noticed and leads to power, riches, and fame. "He's suddenly very hot."
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Rosemary's Baby / int_99c36bb5	type	Ironic Nursery Tune
Rosemary's Baby / int_99c36bb5	comment	Ironic Nursery Tune: "Rosemary's Lullaby," the wordless vocal theme that opens and closes the film, performed by an uncredited Mia Farrow herself. It's a soft, sweet heartwarming tune that is oddly placed in an ominous film about devil worship. And ironic given that the mother sings this to her infant child which is the Antichrist. It's also known as "Sleep Safe and Warm," and recordings with official lyrics can be found (for example, Claudine Longet's version).
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Rosemary's Baby / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Rosemary's Baby / int_9ae85487	comment	Dr. Jerk: Dr. Sapirstein. Even before we learn that he's part of the coven, his patronizing attitude towards Rosemary and his Hurricane of Excuses for her pain and weight loss make him seem heartless.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_9ae8eea9	type	Character Tics
Rosemary's Baby / int_9ae8eea9	comment	Character Tics: Guy's nervous laughter. It becomes increasingly more nervous as the pressure increases between he and Rosemary.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Rosemary's Baby / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: After getting to know one another as new neighbors, Terry tells Rosemary that the Castavets are the nicest people in the world and that she'd probably dead or in jail by now if it weren't for the Castavets taking her in. Not long after, Terry is found dead on the streets. As Rosemary is ecstatic over her stomach pain being gone and she asks Guy to feel the baby move, he is rather hesitant. That's because he knows he's not the father and that the child is the Antichrist.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
Rosemary's Baby / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: Guy. He was so determined to make it big in his film career that he went to the Castevets and the cult and made a deal with them to allow Satan to rape and impregnate his wife with the Antichrist in exchange for a part in a play. Although Guy is taken aback by his rival Donald Baumgart becoming blind suddenly, he doesn't think much of it.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_9e4ed124	type	Mundanger
Rosemary's Baby / int_9e4ed124	comment	Mundanger: The real horror comes from not the supernatural themes — which are rather subdued by today's standards — but from Rosemary's predicament: She's being manipulated and conspired against by everyone around her, and even when she realizes this and fights back, she is powerless to stop them.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
Rosemary's Baby / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: Several times. Dr. Hill believes that Rosemary has lost her mind and in that sense, misses the point; but Rosemary also misses the point in thinking she can trust him and he's going to trust her. More generally, Rosemary misses the point in thinking that the cult wants to sacrifice her baby. It doesn't, it wants to worship the baby.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Rosemary's Baby / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Beethoven's "FÃ¼r Elise", played by an unseen tenant in the building, is heard recurrently throughout the film. The playing gets better every time you hear it.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Rosemary's Baby / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Guy's reaction to the news that Donald Baumgart went blind and he's been chosen to take over the role is very telling: he drops his confident veneer and seems shaken, almost at a loss for words. This suggests that he'd made his deal with Roman and Minnie only half-seriously, not completely believing they had any real powers. But now that they've come through so spectacularly for him, he realizes there's no turning back. Rosemary's reaction after she gives in to her craving for raw meat and then gets a look at herself in the reflection of a toaster and realizes what a terrible thing she is doing.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_a45599e4	type	DetectiveFiction
Rosemary's Baby / int_a45599e4	comment	J.R. Hanslet, the author of All of Them Witches, is a double allusion to Detective Fiction writer John Rhode (Pen Name for Cecil Street) and his recurring character Inspector Hanslet. Levin was a big fan of Rhode's novels.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
Rosemary's Baby / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: Adrian/Andrew is the antichrist. He apparently looks monstrous, though he drinks breast milk and cries like a normal baby.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_a7acd9aa	type	ChekhovsLecture
Rosemary's Baby / int_a7acd9aa	comment	Chekhov's Lecture: As soon as Rosemary tells Hutch about the apartment building, he tells her the story of witches and Adrian Marcato. It turns out that this was all important to what is happening to Rosemary, though she doesn't figure it out until the end.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_a8a5e4ed	type	Christianity Is Catholic
Rosemary's Baby / int_a8a5e4ed	comment	Christianity is Catholic: Rosemary was raised Catholic. Roman also criticizes the Catholic Church, but not a word is said about any other one (although he does make a passing comment dismissing "all religions"). In the book, it's also vaguely implied that the mother of Satan's child is required to be Catholic. The cryptic comments by JFK in Rosemary's fever dream about only Catholics being allowed on the yacht and being "bound by these prejudices", and Terry having an Italian surname could be hints for this.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_ab8e26e2	type	Slipping a Mickey
Rosemary's Baby / int_ab8e26e2	comment	Slipping a Mickey: The chocolate mousse given to Rosemary by Guy contains some sort of drug. She complains that it has a chalky aftertaste and doesn't want to keep eating it, but he gets defensive, insists that it doesn't have an aftertaste, and pressures her to eat it. She secretly discards most of it. She quickly passes out afterward, but wakes up midway through her satanic conception, having not taken as much of the drug as the Satanists thought.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_aca32000	type	Armor-Piercing Response
Rosemary's Baby / int_aca32000	comment	Armor-Piercing Response: At the end, Roman asks Rosemary to rock her newborn Antichrist child to sleep. Rosemary calls him out on trying to manipulate her to be the child's mother. Roman asks her, "Aren't you his mother?". And so Rosemary gives in.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_af3be43f	type	Mundane Horror
Rosemary's Baby / int_af3be43f	comment	Mundane Horror: Basically the gist of the whole Polanski "apartment trilogy". A seemingly ordinary apartment complex with friendly neighbors where the protagonist is increasingly disturbed, having strange medical symptoms and believing that the people around them are up to something. Which turns out to be the truth. Dr. Hill appears to take a turn toward evil when he returns Rosemary to the hands of the cult. Rosemary briefly believes that that he's secretly part of the cult, but it's nothing more than the routine sexism of the era: he took Guy's word over Rosemary's.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
Rosemary's Baby / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: Unlike the original movie, where Rosemary seemed to be traumatized yet quietly resigned to protecting her infant from the cult, in the remake it's implied that she actually becomes at ease with what they have done and truly in love with the child with no revulsion. Enough so that she appears to be entrusted to walk him in the pram with no surveillance. Guy's defection to the dark side becomes subtly obvious right after the very first night he meets Roman Castevet and tells Rosemary he wants to go back to hear more stories, despite having been the one, of the pair of them, who objected to going in the first place.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_b0a529cb	type	Extreme Doormat
Rosemary's Baby / int_b0a529cb	comment	Extreme Doormat: Rosemary doesn't have much will of her own, partly due to her personality, partly because she's a housewife from Omaha in the 1960s, and partly because of the physical toll of her pregnancy. She does grow more assertive throughout the film, especially once she starts figuring out what's going on.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_b1c8e04e	type	Marital Rape License
Rosemary's Baby / int_b1c8e04e	comment	Marital Rape License: The night after Satan impregnates her, Rosemary notices some scratches on her. Guy tells her he got too excited last night and then handwaves it as "not wanting to miss Baby Night." Outside of the fact that Guy is covering for the fact that he let Satan rape his wife, he covers by saying he basically raped her unconscious body, scratching her in the process, and thinks that's an acceptable cover story. To top it off, he says "it was kind of fun, in a necrophile sort of way".
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Rosemary's Baby / int_b3dbc942	type	Sequel
Rosemary's Baby / int_b3dbc942	comment	Sequel: Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby for the film, and Son of Rosemary for the book.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_b869b5b1	type	Color Motif
Rosemary's Baby / int_b869b5b1	comment	Color Motif: The colour yellow is used throughout this film, predominantly with regard to scenes including Rosemary, her husband, Guy, and their apartment. On one hand yellow stands for freshness, happiness, positivity, clarity, energy, optimism, enlightenment, remembrance, intellect, honor, loyalty, and joy, but on the other, it represents cowardice and deceit.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_ba101b2a	type	Weight Loss Horror
Rosemary's Baby / int_ba101b2a	comment	Weight Loss Horror: Rosemary loses a lot of weight rather then gain weight due to the supernatural elements of her pregnancy.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Rosemary's Baby / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Rosemary's maiden name is Reilly, which would make her Rosemary Reilly.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
Rosemary's Baby / int_c145f69b	comment	Roman seems like this at first glance, but he ends up being pretty despicable despite his affected amicability.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Rosemary's Baby / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Rosemary screams these in the end as she learns that she was raped by the devil and her baby is the Antichrist and she has been gaslit and brainwashed by a satanic cult and her abusive husband the whole time. All while the cult chants "Hail, Satan!" to her dismay.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_c3bafbce	type	Satan
Rosemary's Baby / int_c3bafbce	comment	Satan: Is established as a real entity and even gets a horns-and-all cameo.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_c420a553	type	We Can Rule Together
Rosemary's Baby / int_c420a553	comment	We Can Rule Together: The clear implication of Roman's offer that Rosemary should take care of her child. She appears to accept, but whether he means it sincerely or not (or if she does) are both left ambiguous.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_c49935fa	type	20 Minutes into the Past
Rosemary's Baby / int_c49935fa	comment	20 Minutes into the Past: The book was written in 1967, while the film was made in 1968. In both versions, the story takes place in 1965-66.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Rosemary's Baby / int_c660bc15	comment	Rosemary (played by the very pretty Mia Farrow) appears in a bikini alongside several other attractive bikini-clad women in her dream sequence before appearing fully nude. Quickly becomes Fan Disservice as the dream takes a dark turn though.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
Rosemary's Baby / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: Rosemary assumes that the witch coven intends to steal her yet-unborn baby to be sacrificed, before discovering they actually want to worship him, as he is Satan's spawn.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Rosemary's Baby / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Rosemary mentions in passing that she and Guy enjoyed watching a production of The Fantasticks the other day. It's mentioned that Guy had been in plays called Luther and Nobody Loves an Albatross. These were a pair of real Broadway shows, about Martin Luther and a talentless television writer-producer, respectively. Roman asks if Guy was Albert Finney's understudy in Luther. Finney was, indeed, the star of that play. Phil Leeds, who plays Dr. Shand in the film, was actually in Nobody Loves an Albatross. Before that, Guy makes a self-depreciating joke that he and Rosemary are Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, then the power couple of Hollywood (in contrast with Guy's run of minor supporting roles). At one point Guy reads the reviews for Drat! The Cat!, an incredibly short-run Broadway musical with lyrics and book by Ira Levin (creating an odd Celebrity Paradox by implying that the book's author exists in his own universe). Rosemary is seen reading Sammy Davis Jr.'s autobiography, Yes I Can, which is also visible on the bookshelf later. (In the novel, she's reading The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) Levin named The Bramford after Bram Stoker. J.R. Hanslet, the author of All of Them Witches, is a double allusion to Detective Fiction writer John Rhode (Pen Name for Cecil Street) and his recurring character Inspector Hanslet. Levin was a big fan of Rhode's novels. Guy puts All of Them Witches above copies of Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, before throwing it out, arousing Rosemary's suspicions. At the time, all the hip young progressives were reading the Kinsey Reports, which marked the first mainstream (semi-)objective studies of homosexuality, and which are credited for ushering in the free love of the 1960s. Rosemary rationalizes Guy's vanity as being a typical trait of an actor, speculating that even Laurence Olivier is probably self-centered. This line is in the book but in the film, it becomes an In-Joke since she's delivering it to Hutch, played by Olivier's archrival on the Shakespearean acting scene, Maurice Evans. Part of the reason Rosemary is looking forward to having Dr. Hill as her obstetrician is because he resembles television dreamboat Dr. Kildare. At the end of the opening credits, and later the spot where Terry dies, an overhead shot of the south entrance to the Dakota Apartments is shown. Its arched gateway is where John Lennon was shot to death in 1980. In a scene where Rosemary is getting her blood drawn, Rosemary tells the doctor that she just saw the off- Broadway show "The Fantasticks." In that play, the parental figures arrange a "rape" of the ingÃ©nue (meaning, in this case, "abduction," from the Latin "rapere," rather than sexual assault), by a dark devilish character (named El Gallo), so a young man can save her, hoping that the young girl fall in love with the young man and marry him. Abe Saperstein is the name of the man who founded the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. But in this film, Dr. Abe's surname is spelled slightly differently, as "Sapirstein." And, just coincidentally, the real-life Abe Saperstein died in 1966, the year in which most of the movie takes place. This film features a cast member from Bewitched (Maurice Evans), and a cast member from I Dream of Jeannie (Emmaline Henry). Both programs feature protagonists that frequently indulge in witchcraft and magic.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Rosemary's Baby / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: The viewer is never shown Rosemary's baby, but her horrified reaction makes it blatantly clear that whatever she gave birth to is clearly not human.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_cf48c17	type	Nightmare Face
Rosemary's Baby / int_cf48c17	comment	Nightmare Face: We never see what the baby looks like, but Rosemary looks horrified when she sees him, and she demands to know why his eyes look like that. The witches respond, "He has his father's eyes." What little we see of Satan looks like Guy with monstrous features and red, cat-like eyes.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Rosemary's Baby / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Rosemary can't get anyone to believe her stories about witches. Hutch advises Rosemary and Guy against moving into the Bramford because of its unsavory history but neither take his warnings seriously.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_cfbd1467	type	Never Suicide
Rosemary's Baby / int_cfbd1467	comment	Never Suicide: It is often debated if Terry committed suicide or was murdered by the Castevet's for not cooperating. It is likely the latter, and they probably staged the scene to look like a suicide when it was a homicide, because she wouldn't be their surrogate for the Antichrist. This is probably when they figured they had to drug someone surreptitiously, that no one could be bribed to mate with Satan as they had obviously hoped.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_d5a674ff	type	Defiant Stone Throw
Rosemary's Baby / int_d5a674ff	comment	Defiant Stone Throw: One of the few notable incidents in the book that didn't make the film: after Roman reveals that the baby will be called Adrian, Rosemary refuses to accept it and states that his name is Andrew John Woodhouse, which she'd picked a few months earlier. (The "Hail Rosemary, Mother of Adrian" chant may have clued her in that she's got some clout.) Minnie cuts off Roman's objection and starts chanting "Hail Andrew!" and the rest of the cult follows her, allowing Rosemary a small victory. Guy tries to convince Rosemary that all her suffering will pay off, since the cult intends to reward them. She responds by defiantly spitting on his face.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Rosemary's Baby / int_da53340	comment	Religious Horror: Genre Popularizer. The boom in this sub-genre in The '70s followed the lead of Rosemary's Baby.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Rosemary's Baby / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Dr. Hill is mentioned several times as Rosemary's original doctor. She ultimately goes to see him toward the end of the film, but it's ultimately subverted as he does no good whatsoever and still refuses to believe Rosemary.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_dd75c238	type	Deadly Deferred Conversation
Rosemary's Baby / int_dd75c238	comment	Deadly Deferred Conversation: Downplayed. Hutch tells Rosemary over the phone that he needs to see her, but won't tell her why until she meets him the next morning. He goes into a coma overnight. However, it's justified in that Hutch knows Guy is there listening, and is naturally more concerned that he may harm Rosemary if he tells her even over the phone, and he still does leave Rosemary with enough clues to figure out the true conspiracy around her...but by then she's about to give birth.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_de763115	type	Hollywood Board Games
Rosemary's Baby / int_de763115	comment	Hollywood Board Games: Rosemary has played Scrabble so many times, she can deduce the Significant Anagram that hides the villain's name.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
Rosemary's Baby / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: When she figures out they're in danger, Rosemary vows to protect her unborn baby at any cost. She kills one of the Satanists and attacks others. But her baby is Satan. This trope is then deconstructed, very darkly, though, as Rosemary still gives in to the cult because of her love of her child.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_e390612a	type	Hollywood Satanism
Rosemary's Baby / int_e390612a	comment	Hollywood Satanism: The witches worship the Christian Satan, and seek to bring about the apocalypse by creating the Antichrist. They're part of a long tradition of witches that have been well documented. Their Religion of Evil gives them magical powers they can use to cast spells in order to maim or even kill people from afar.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_e5411cdf	type	Cult
Rosemary's Baby / int_e5411cdf	comment	Cult: The Castevets and Dr. Sapirstein turn out to be Satanists. They convince Guy to join their cult by promising him a successful career. In exchange, he agrees to have his wife Rosemary bear Satan's child.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
Rosemary's Baby / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: Rosemary's attempted escape from the cultists and her birth all take place in bright summer daylight and stifling heat.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Rosemary's Baby / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Guy Woodhouse conspires with the Castevets, literally selling his soul to the Devil and setting Rosemary up to be raped by Satan himself, gaslit over a period of months, and give birth to the Antichrist... all to get a role in a play. No one is sorry to see Rosemary spit in his face at the end of the movie.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_e7e558	type	The Oner
Rosemary's Baby / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: The film's Title Sequence features a slow, continuous aerial pan across Midtown Manhattan and Central Park, then down along the top of the Dakota (a.k.a. the Bramford) and on to the front of the building, as we see Rosemary and Guy reaching the entrance from the sidewalk far below.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_e8b0f099	type	Dark Is Evil
Rosemary's Baby / int_e8b0f099	comment	Dark Is Evil: Reconstructed. The Satanists do not appear to follow this, as all of them, especially Minnie, wear very brash, bright colors. However, when we see their true lair undisguised for the first time, it's cloaked in black.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
Rosemary's Baby / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: Rosemary believes that her Satanic conception is just a dream, then screams, "This is no dream! This is really happening!" Then she wakes up and doesn't seem to remember anything about it other than that she had a nightmare.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Rosemary's Baby / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Right from the outset of the movie, Guy constantly acts like a callous and mean-spirited jackass towards Rosermary. After she gets a haircut, he repeatedly states to his wife's face that he thinks her new hair is hideous and that it's the worst decision she's ever made.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_eb9afb9d	type	Evil Old Folks
Rosemary's Baby / int_eb9afb9d	comment	Evil Old Folks: Most of the coven of witches are quite elderly. Rosemary notices that all of her friends since moving into the apartment are over 60 and specifically plans a party only for her younger friends. This manages to exclude all of the witches and helps Rosemary start to resist their influence.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_ec40626	type	Love Martyr
Rosemary's Baby / int_ec40626	comment	Love Martyr: Downplayed, before being brutally invoked by the end. Guy is completely selfish, demeaning, bullying, and tells Rosemary that he raped her in her sleep. She still adores him. That it was actually Satan doing the deed makes this no better, although after months of his gaslighting, bullying, and finally, the revelation that Guy let Satan rape her pushes her over the edge and she spits in his face.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_edaedf90	type	Vomit Discretion Shot
Rosemary's Baby / int_edaedf90	comment	Vomit Discretion Shot: After devouring raw meat, Rosemary promptly vomits in the kitchen sink after realizing what she has done.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_f025884b	type	TheAntiChrist
Rosemary's Baby / int_f025884b	comment	The Antichrist: The witches believe that Rosemary's baby is the Antichrist.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_f0e85546	type	Unbuilt Trope
Rosemary's Baby / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: While it's the Genre Popularizer for Religious Horror, these days it almost plays like a deconstruction of it, since the genre would evolve in a more extreme supernatural direction. The villains are Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Evil Old Folks rather than sinister Obviously Evil types and their kindly personalities are at least somewhat genuine, the horror is more low-key and built around a slow burn, with few Jump Scare moments, and—in contrast to the deadly serious tone usually associated with Religious Horror—there's a lot of wry Black Comedy. And ultimately, Satan himself only has a brief cameo appearance, while we don't even get to see the Antichrist (in the film, at least; he is described in the novel).
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Rosemary's Baby / int_f15c2859	type	NO INDOOR VOICE
Rosemary's Baby / int_f15c2859	comment	No Indoor Voice: Minnie is so loud her words can be clearly heard through the partition separating the Cassevets' apartment from the Woodhouses'.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Rosemary makes a big deal about the fact that her new haircut is Vidal Sassoon, but all of the characters then say it doesn't look good on her. Works on a meta-level. While the Vidal Sassoon cut is mentioned by name in the same context in the novel, Mia Farrow was famous at the time for abandoning her long strawberry-blonde locks in favor of a Vidal Sassoon pixie cut, garnering similar responses from her fans. A Yamaha commercial that Guy stars in is shown. Guy brings home pockets full of packs of cigarettes after shooting a Pall Mall commercial. Minnie asks Rosemary to pick up an instant Sanka while she's out shopping, and later gives her Lipton tea at the baby shower. Guy's favorite dessert is pumpkin pie from Horn and Hardart, a once-ubiquitous New York City automat. A neighbor's small daughter asks Rosemary if she likes Cap'n Crunch. Rosemary's never heard of him. (The book is set in 1966 and Cap'n Crunch was introduced in 1963. Rosemary, being a childless adult, probably isn't hip to children's breakfast cereals.)
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Rosemary's Baby / int_f604f64b	comment	Dude, She's Like in a Coma: Rosemary dreams she is being raped by the devil (unfortunately, as it later turns out, this is not a dream). When she wakes up, she discovers that Guy, with whom she had planned to try to conceive that night, tells her he has had sex with her while she slept. His justification? "I didn't want to miss 'baby night'."
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Rosemary's Baby / int_fb4c41b4	comment	"Friends" Rent Control: Such vast apartments in a pre-war building in the exclusive Upper West Side would be extremely expensive even in the 1960s, so it's somewhat odd that a not-particularly-successful actor and his housewife would be able to afford one, nor the gaggle of retirees that seem to populate the rest of the building. However, the building is shown to be rather dilapidated in the opening sequence, with the Woodhouses stepping over crumbling tile floors. Their apartment is also a fraction of a previous apartment, and there is a very thin wall between the two, further lowering its value. The superintendent also mentions that the apartment would be much more expensive if rent control didn't prevent them from raising the rates much above what the previous tenant paid, who'd lived there for decades. Furthermore, the building has a horrifying history which by itself lowers property value considerably. Guy is said to have booked several TV commercials — one of which is still airing, and he makes another one soon after they move in — and commercials do pay very well, so it's possible he was making a steady living from that (and therefore wished he could have the prestige of being a stage actor, even though it wouldn't be as financially sound). The Made-For-TV remake gets around this by having the building owners generously offering an expensive apartment for free after the young, struggling couple loses their previous apartment to a fire. Then again, it's also implied that the fire wasn't an accident and that the cult arranged for them to lose the apartment in order to place Rosemary under their control.)
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Rosemary's Baby / int_fcf82917	comment	Wacky Cravings: Rosemary has a sudden craving for rare meat, just barely touched to a hot frying pan. This is another clue that something isn't quite right with her titular baby.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
Rosemary's Baby / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: Assuming what we suspect was happening all along was true, the cult caused the deaths of Mrs. Gardenia and Terry simply because they started questioning their motives, the death of Hutch because he was trying to tell Rosemary who her neighbors were, and blinded Donald Baumgart only so they could manipulate Guy into going along with their plans. Also, it's not out of the question that the whole arrangement of the birth of the Antichrist was just to allow Roman/Steven to one-up his father: Adrian Marcato merely conjured Satan, Steven will actually allow his seed to start roaming the earth.
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Rosemary's Baby / int_ff7e9adf	comment	Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Rosemary is very sweet, kind, and nice to everyone. Emphasized as her villainous husband has dark hair, although Terry also has dark hair and is a sympathetic character (but doesn't last).
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Rosemary's Baby / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: A few pages from All of Them Witches are shown. Here's a transcription and discussion!. We see chapters on actual historical personages; Thomas Colley (executed for falsely accusing and murdering an old couple who were not witches) and Prudence Duvernoy (not a witch but a confidante of Marie Du Plessis, the real Lady of the Camellias). When Guy throws out the book, Rosemary buys another copy at Samuel Weiser's bookstore. She also gets The Book of Ceremonial Magic, by A.E. Waite (one of the developers of the familiar Ryder Waite Tarot Cards). In the taxi, she reads a phrase about "many people died under mysterious circumstances" and that spells of this type "could not be cast without one of the victim's belongings". This is not in the real book. The production people inserted it on page 105, where Waite actually discusses misinterpretations of spells found in actual grimoires (magical textbooks) and controversies over authorship of Spell Books.
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HouseOfHell	seeAlso	Rosemary's Baby

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