The Rosemary's Babyverse expands with a prequel!

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Ambivalent feelings about this. I like Julia Garner and especially Dianne Wiest and the film looks to be, at minimum, stylish and reasonably entertaining.

Prequels like this usually feel more like archaeology than creativity. Not once have I ever even pondered what happened prior to ROSEMARY'S BABY; that's a thoroughly self-contained story. On top of that, this looks like a quasi-remake. Unless the creators are bold enough to invalidate ROSEMARY, it feels like the ending here is already foregone.
 

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Is it a prequel?

It looks like it would be post-Baby. But the terror of the movie was that we didn't know if it was just a paranoid mother or if it was truly Satan's baby.
 

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Is it a prequel?

It's been reported as a prequel. Presumably the Castevets attempted to demonically impregnant other young women before being successful with Rosemary. Seems like the story would be even more unnecessary as a sequel, since the Castevets were successful in ROSEMARY.
 

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Prequels like this usually feel more like archaeology than creativity
I can understand the temptation to play with a certain universe but it usually doesn't amount to much more than fan fiction. Apartment 7A is going to rely heavily on atmosphere and production values, I guess.
Unless the creators are bold enough to invalidate ROSEMARY, it feels like the ending here is already foregone
As they did in The First Omen, which makes it more like a remake than a prequel (and they did remake The Omen's most memorable scene, which makes the project look kinda insecure).
How "sacrilegious" the prequel/sequel/remake looks depends on my personal emotional attachment, and I didn't dislike The First Omen for that particular reason.
 

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To my surprise, I found the movie was shockingly good; darn near on par with ROSEMARY. It follows the beats of the original, but with enough originality to not feel derivative. The story is even more entwined than I expected and might even enhance the original. My biggest surprise is that the movie totally avoids cheap, modern scares and sticks with atmosphere and weird creepiness.
 

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Lenny Bernstein's apartment in The Dakota -- it seems lovely:

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But is The Dakota haunted, or scarred by evil? Joan Crawford made a lobby cameo in the first film (excised from the final cut) and then Lennon was gunned-down by an anti-Christal figure (horoscopically).

And their top floor refuses to sell, despite being on the market for ages and the price being slashed to 40% of the original asking price.
 

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But is The Dakota haunted, or scarred by evil? Joan Crawford made a lobby cameo in the first film (excised from the final cut) and then Lennon was gunned-down by an anti-Christal figure (horoscopically).

And their top floor refuses to sell, despite being on the market for ages and the price being slashed to 40% of the original asking price.

Should Crawford's cameo have been cut out of the final edit? Was it filmed just to generate publicity, Mommie Dearest exploited for cheap media coverage?

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