Rosemary's Baby
Rosemary's Baby is a 1967 horror novel by Ira Levin, adapted into a celebrated 1968 film directed by Roman Polanski.
The story follows a young woman who comes to suspect her neighbors are Satanists with designs on her unborn child.
The title has become shorthand for demonic or sinister pregnancies in popular culture: Every horror movie about evil babies owes something to Rosemary's Baby.
- PolanskiControversial European filmmaker
- SatanJudeo-Christian arch-enemy of God
- pregnancyCarrying developing offspring
- cultFervent fringe group
- covenAssembly of witches
Mia Farrow · witches · Manhattan · horror · devil · occult · paranoia · lullaby · nightmare · apartment · conspiracy · dark secret · ritual · infant · demonic · cradle · Black Mass · motherhood
- 1968 FilmsPlanet of the Apes, Romeo and Juliet, Night of the Living Dead, The Producers, Bullitt
- Horror FilmsThe Exorcist, Halloween, The Shining, Friday the 13th, Night of the Living Dead
- Cartoon BabiesMaggie Simpson, Bamm-Bamm, Stewie Griffin, Tommy Pickles
Rosemary's BabyMary Poppins
Rosemary's Babyimmaculate conception
Flawless origin or beginning
Son of God · Jesus of Nazareth · Ben-Hur · Madonna and Child · The Ten Commandments
Rosemary's BabySteel Magnolias
Southern women's friendship drama