Film· 1968· Horror

Rosemary's Baby

by Roman Polanski

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Hereditary

Film · 2018

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Ari Aster has named it among the films he was working from, and the structure is the same trick: a family tragedy that the audience explains psychologically for most of the running time, and a final scene that says the coven was real and organised all of it. Both films spend their length letting you believe the woman at the centre is unwell, then reveal she was the only one paying attention. Both end with a coronation rather than an escape.

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Rosemary's Baby

The film stars Mia Farrow as Rosemary, a newlywed living in Manhattan who becomes pregnant, and begins to suspect that her neighbors have sinister intentions regarding her and her baby. The film's supporting cast includes John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy, Patsy Kelly, Angela Dorian, and Charles Grodin in his feature film debut.