(actually the Dakota apartments - the actual locale in the film) Strange cult of Charles Manson followers in her Benedict Canyon home.Ī real-life tragedy also occurred when the Bramford apartment building Would be similarly played out a year later - Polanski's pregnantĪctress/wife Sharon Tate would be terrorized and murdered by the The incredible irony of the film was that the plot Of Rosemary's pregnancy as a sexually-transmitted disease, and theįilm's view of Satanism as the birth of the Anti-Christ. Pope made by Roman Castevet ('You don't need to have respectįor him because he pretends that he's holy'), the portrayal Guilt over her lapsed Catholicism, anti-religious references to the These criticisms were due in part to sequences depicting Rosemary's Made of fundamental Christian beliefs, especially surrounding theīirth of Christ, and its mockery of religious persons and practices'. The film, condemning it for 'the perverted use which the film

The National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures reviled The film was one of the first with the theme of SatanismĪnd the occult, before the onslaught of films such as TheĮxorcist (1973), The Omen (1976), and Demon The creepy filmĮnded with the devil's flesh-and-blood baby being cared for by the mother!

Paranoid and hysterical, she believed herself impregnated so that herīaby could be used by an evil cult in their rituals. In Central Park West, where the title character Rosemary Woodhouse (Miaįarrow) experienced a nightmarish dream of making love to a Beast. Newlywed couple who moved into a large, rambling old apartment building Polish director Roman Polanski's first American featureįilm and his second, scary horror film (following his first disturbingįilm in English titled Repulsion (1965)) - was about a young National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures reviled Polanski'sĭark horror classic for mocking religion and making 'perverted The 100+ Most Controversial Films of All-Time

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