Please PLEASE tell me you appreciate the coffee shop bit I did...it literally took 4 hours going frame by frame because I don't have a green screen. Prayers in the chat pls

Note: Guy must have shown himself to be something of a creep to Rosemary in years before, being that in the book/film Rosemary guesses in Act Two with not too much contemplation, that her husband joined the witch club and that he would have his son killed (turns out that's wrong of course) for the group. Heck she doesnt even dwell that much on the fact that Guy says he..............while she was asleep, as if she's just takes it for granted that that's the kind of person he is.

Salem’s Lattees! Haha! Love it!

I’m so glad I found this video! I recently finished the book and my boyfriend and I watched the film. I was so excited since I loved the book so much, and the movie has great reviews, but I was so let down! I loved the casting, visuals, and soundtrack, but I felt like it was missing some key scenes. In the book when Rosemary thanks the acting coach for the theatre tickets she is able to come to the realization that Guy was involved in the cult as well, and it was kind of a jaw dropping moment for me. Like you mentioned, Guy has likable moments and charm in the book which caused me to be surprised by his involvement. My boyfriend went in blind, but guessed he was involved early on. I’m thrilled to find someone who i agree with so much, and also get some new thoughts and opinions out of it! amazing review and comparison!!

I have become the old couple who won’t stop talking. Love this.

Read silence of the lambs if you haven't already. The movie stuck very close to the source material as well.

Very entertaining review. I am in my 60’s. Had seen RB many years ago, remembered only that it was horrifying. A friend, older than I am, mentioned that it is her favorite book. Intrigued, so uploaded it to my kindle. Incredible read, but ultimately for me still horrifying. I think that the blending of religion with horror is a very deep creepy. Book and movie are excellent, but I’m grateful that they end. One of my top 5 all time flicks, by the way, is Polanski’s Chinatown. Thank you for addressing movie and book.

First, I loved the latte scene. It was very creative. I am a book person and typically read the book prior to the movie. I appreciate you doing a compositing and contrasting. You have a new subscriber 😀

I saw somewhere that they originally wanted Robert Redford to play Guy, but they couldn't get him.

Have you ever seen "The Inside?" I consider that film a much more grounded exploration of the horrors of pregnancy.

That was a funny, beautiful and deep review I fully enjoyed. Niw I want to read the book!

enjoyed your review. Oddly, I saw this at age 10 and it set up strange issues, especially when my siblings started announcing their pregnancies. And that harrowing trumpet was just traumatic. Guy always seemed sleazy, as if he was in on the conspiracy since the marriage. And its interesting how filmmakers force porn on viewers. When Rosemary asks to "make love" Guy is like "oh well, I've got nothing better to do, and the way he throws off his shoes...lol. Don't think I'll be able to watch the reveal scene with a straight face after watching this. Became a fan of Ruth Gordon after this... "Harold and Maude", worth a watch.

You got me in the intro, I just read the book and i love it, and then your video pop up so now i feel watched by the KZfaq algorithm. But i love the video so I'm not complaining.

QUESTIONS ABOUT ROSEMARY'S BABY: 1. HOW could a,struggling actor afford a fancy apartment in a building in the same category as The Dakota, The Osbourne? Those apartmenrs are catered to the very rich in the million dollar price range? No way-even with royalties-could Guy buy a home in a building like The Bramford. 2. WHAT exactly is the guy who shows Guy and Rosemary the apartment in the beginning? He's a real estate agent I get, but then later in the film we see him outside The Bramford in his bathrobe at night. So he's a real estate for the Bram, but he also lives in the Bram in addition to selling apartments there? Huh??? Or is he like the building manager? 3. WHY are most of Rosemary's girlfriends glamorous model types?? 4. WHY didn't Hutch just tell his friend Grace to tell Rosemary :"Roman Castevet is a devil worshipper."? 5. Uh... wouldn't Rosemary get suspicous right away at dinner, when Roman says that he's seen Guy on stage and already knows of him?? A struggling unknown actor? Wouldn't Rosemary find that a big coincidence?

Great review!

One of the great things about Rosemary's Baby, is that the story leaves two major plot points totally unexplained. 1. Did Terry commit suicide (when she learned from one of the coven-per the conversation we over hear Minnie having with one of the coven members through the wall-that she was to carry Satan's baby) or was she murdered? That's never explained. Nor do we ever learn what Terry wrote in her suicide letter. 2. We never find out what Roman secretly told Guy after dinner that night in Roman's apartment (no doubt Roman was probably telling Guy a few interesting tidbits about the coven and how the coven could help Guy get acting jobs), nor do we learn when Guy actually joined. I like how Ira Levin doesn't spoon feed his audience, but leaves it up to them to figure things out (like how the camera doesn't focus in on the witches breaking into Rosemary's apartment, or when Hutch is suspicous about Tannis Root, and in the background we can see that Roman has become equally suspicous of Hutch from the look on his face, but the camera doesn't zero in on the horror scene, but simply let's the audience spot it for themselves in the background, nor do we actually get to see the baby. Universal and Hammer horror used to always spell (no pun intended) out everything plot wise in big, neon letters but Rosemary's Baby leaves things up to the audience. Opinions???

Amazing! Really liked the editing

Rosemary's Baby has many autobiographical elements. Ira Levin lived in a gothic apartment -the Osbourne-in New York, his wife was pregnant at the time, he had an interest in the occult (he once said in an interview that he would get fan letters asking if he knew of real witch clubs that they could join!)

I lived in a condo building in arlington va , built in 1970, some of the older people gave me rosemarys baby vibes, they were very nosey and a little creepy, a older man that lived above me jumped to his death, a lady on my floor the 10th, would sleepwalk screaming for her dead husband. I felt the building was cursed. I finally moved.😳

thank you for this!!

A few more questions about Rosemary's Baby: 1. What is the point (no pun intended!) of the minor plot angle about Hutch being wrong about where in the Bramford, Marcato was attacked by a mob? ("Outside, not in the lobby," Rosemary). 2. The scene where Guy says:"I didnt know Marcato lived there " at the dinner table, is that supposed to mean that Guy has already heard of Adrian Marcato before the conversation? 3. Wouldn't Rosemary get suspicous of the Castavets when they put on that wine celebration in her home when she annouces that she's pregnant? Wouldn't she wonder WHY this couple that she doesn't know very well would be so happy that she's having a baby? The couple who lived in the apartment across the hall from me were having a baby but I didn't barge into their home in the middle of the night wanting to celebrate! (and I knew them very well too!). 4. Why did Guy lie to Dr. Hill about moving to California? Why not just say that they're switching to Dr. Sapirstein who we learn is known as the biggest doctor in all of New York!!?? There's no way Dr. Hill would question that! (we learn later in the film that Hill even considers Sapirstein a mentor).

I was very much around in 1968, and read the book long before I saw the film. I could go on forever. :) However, I couldn't agree more that I didn't like John Cassevetes version of Guy. For all that Guy did the unspeakable later, in the beginning there is a lot of humour, warmth, and playfulness in the book. In the film, Guy is not anywhere near as handsome and charming, and seems nasty and sarcastic all along. (I doubted Guy was all that good an actor, though he was fortunate to be able to live on his residuals from Anacin - I remember when handsome blokes appeared in such commercials. I laughed, from my first reading, at the scene where Roman tells Guy he was SO impressed by his performance in Luther - 'there was a gesture you made...' Then Guy tells him what it was, and believes Roman was impressed. :D Roman may never have even seen Luther, and would never have noticed him, but Rosemary announces "Luther" to everyone she meets.)

Great video! This is one of my favourite books and favourite movies. I just love how Rosemary takes the power back at the end of it. Regarding the closeness of the movie to the novel. I read that as this was one of the director's first feature films, and as it was new territory, he kept close to the source material as he thought he had to! There's some amazing audiobook adaptations out there for this.

Crazy how this movie didn't get nominated at the Oscars

I think what you're hearing is a clock ticking, like the little alarm clock on the headboard of the bed.

Excellent review

I think movie Guy's charm was downplayed to increase Rosemary's isolation and wifely submission. Movie Guy did subtly what Movie Jack Torrance did in a big way.

I love the movie. I am going to order the book now. I like your hat.

I thought the ending was freaking funny, you can just imagine how life is gonna be for her with a little child who can do a gutural demonic voice when he's angry and the kind of asshole he would turn into in his teenage years in the 80s listening to Heavy Metal, with Rosemary telling him to clean up his room or else. Ugly Americans did a good spin on this with Callie and her family, can't help but bust a laugh everytime i remember her mother complaining to her exhusband for doing stupid crap or remembering the fact that a Satanic cult drugged her and had her rap*d by the devil in an otherwise wholesome scene

Just subscribed because I enjoy your observations and editing skills -- many of your funny additions made me lol -- and this was way more cohesive and composed than the sh!tfest that is Room 237, a documentary that disappointed me after I watched The Shining on the big screen for the first time last week. If you crave a different kind of book and movie adaptation, I highly recommend "Original Bliss," which is a very prescient novel from the late 90s that was made into a film entiled "Gleissendes Glück" nearly two decades later...book by female Scottish author, film directed (and screenplay co-written) by male German director. There are devices in the film that I found inventive, and the differences between the novel and movie are interesting choices.

Love this review!!

I just watched this movie for the first time the other day. I was hooked and disturbed throughout, but I truly felt like the ending was rushed in a way, even though the rest of the movie was a slow burn, so the ending didn’t affect me like the rest of the movie. When I saw her with that knife I thought she was gonna go Michael myers on the cult for her baby back, that’s how I imagine the ending in my head :)

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The movie for me wasn’t so much “scary”, as it was disturbing and haunting. Great video by the way! I’ll have check out some more of your stuff

whoa, was that a nod to American horror story with that Emma Roberts clip?

Hi, thank you for this video it is so interesting, as I am in the middle of re-reading and re-watching. I don't know if I'm reading too much into this too BUT, is it implied that Guy is the Castavets son? The way Minnie uses her fork to get guy another slice of cake. Was the whole thing planned, the way he uses reverse psychology on rosemary all through the movie, and that Roman has been to her hometown. Was she targeted? They are such an odd couple. Did they kill Mrs gardenia especially for the woodhouses to move in to the adjoining apartment (the way they hexed Baumgart and Hutch) Did they get a brand new carpet because they killed Terry in their apartment and use the other exit rather than the main one to leave and come back to find Terry. She gets depressed every 3 weeks or so as stated by Roman, because she doesn't get pregnant? Does the pope represent organised religion so all of this was set up to correspond with his visit to NY as he is involved in the cult? I don't know, theres just so much subliminal messaging. Or maybe I'm reading too much into it 😅 anyway I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thank you

Hey what's up, which did you like better the novel or film

There's a terrible made for TV sequel to this called Look What Happened to Rosemary's Baby. Pretty sure it's on KZfaq somewhere.

I love the book. The movie I just like. It’s really dated and that kinda kills it for me. I didn’t find it scary at all whereas the book was and that was probably because you’re 100% in Rosemary’s place and mind. As a whole, I respect the movie but it’s a tad bit overrated IMO especially when it’s compared to movies like The Exorcist and The Omen. Side note: it’s weird how great Ira Levin was in his earlier works like Rosemary’s Baby, The Stepford Wives, A Kiss Before Dying, and The Boys From Brazil then you read something like Sliver and it’s like night and day how bad it is.

I like John Castavetts as Guy, but see what you mean about the actor looking bored. Castavetts was used to ad libbing in his roles and was constantly at odds with the director telling him off for trying to do his own thing.

If i didnt like the novel would I like the movie? The book didnt do anything for me

I`m glad the movie isn`t supernatural. Really about madness

the ONLY movie that was better than the book it was based on was Jaws...the movie was so much better than the novel

Gaslighting: The Movie.

Charles Grodin is completely wasted in Rosemary's Baby. Charles Grodin was a very talented performer as we saw in his other films, but in Rosemary's Baby he's given a part that any Tom, Dick or Harry could play. But then again that's the film that jump started his film career (as it did Mia Farrow's who was mainly just a tv star at that time. Studios were always leery at that time of casting tv stars for leads in major motion pictures, being studio mentality is why will audiences pay to see someone they can see for free? The film also put Ruth Gordon's languishing career back on track)

The book is inferior to Polanski masterpiece..

I think this is actually a case of the FILM being better than the novel !