
Rosemarys Baby: A young, happily married couple, Rosemary originally from Omaha, Nebraska, where she had been raised in a Catholic home and had attended convent school and Guy, an actor with a fledging career. He's done plenty of TV plays and commercials, but he wants great parts. Rosemary is estranged from her family, since they don't accept her marriage to Guy, who is not only an actor, but is also of mixed Jewish/Protestant upbringing.They rent an apartment in the gothic and splendorous Bramford building in Manhattan. Their friend and current landlord Edward "Hutch" Hutchins tells them the building has a rather unsavory past. It has been occupied by cannibal killers, Satanists and witches, such as the Trench Sisters, Keith Kennedy, Pearl Ames and the sinister Adrian Marcato, who created a scandal in the late 1890s by claiming to have conjured "The Living Devil." They are befriended by the elderly couple next door, Roman and Minnie Castavet who seem to take a special interest in Rosemary's well-being. Shortly after another young woman in the building commits suicide by jumping out a window, Rosemary begins to be plagued by disturbing dreams, including a hallucinogenic black mass sequence in which she is raped by something "inhuman" while surrounded by a host of unlikely spectators. Rosemary discovers she is pregnant and soon falls violently ill. The Castavets offer advice and home remedies and even go so far as to talk her into seeing a new doctor of their choosing. But when the young couple's friend Hutch exposes her eccentric but seemingly well-meaning neighbors as members of a witches' coven, Rosemary realizes that she is the victim of a deeply evil conspiracy and that no one can be trusted not even her own husband. Starring Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy, Charles Grodin. Released 1968
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