# Rosemary's Baby: How does it hold up? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 18, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosemarys-baby-how-does-it-hold-up/661290 "2013-06-18T17:31:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosemarys-baby-how-does-it-hold-up/661290/41 "2013-06-19T20:56:59Z")
> [@MovieMogul](#): > > Interesting. I find _Repulsion_ the best of the three–a nightmarish window into the gradual erosion of sanity, and one of the best (and most disturbing) final shots in all of cinema. A vivid fever dream of a film, and the one most dependent on his skills as a director. > > _The Tenant_ I enjoy, but find the most dissimilar of the three, though it owes quite a lot to Kafka, making it more surreal and divorced from the real world (which is what makes the other two more effective, to me). Plus, Polanski’s choice to cast himself in the lead is a little problematic, IMHO. Yeah, Polanski did okay as the lead (Trelkovsky?) but a real actor would have been better. Plus, the production values were weaker - I’m guessing because of his recent legal troubles at the time the movie was made? I’ll have to give “Repulsion” another try. The other two movies I’ve seen many times, but I’ve never bothered with “Repulsion” again because it just didn’t click with me. But Polanski movies tend to be like that: “Knife in the Water” was terrific; “Fearless Vampire Killers” didn’t do much of anything for me. “Chinatown” is fantastic, but doesn’t feel like a Polanski film somehow. “The Ghost” from a few years ago was no masterpiece, but achieved something like the quality I enjoyed in “Rosemary’s Baby” and “The Tenant.” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosemarys-baby-how-does-it-hold-up/661290/42 "2013-06-19T20:59:27Z")
It was shocking back in the day when it came out. My favorite part of it, though, was walking out afterward and hearing someone telling her boyfriend that “that could never happen.” As I walked by, I asked “But you believe that god impregnated a virgin, right?” The look on her face was worth the price of admission. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosemarys-baby-how-does-it-hold-up/661290/43 "2013-06-19T21:00:28Z")
I think the movie _per se_ holds up well. What is a little harder to get over is that it was set in the late 60s, and here it is forty years later - where’s the Devil’s son and what has he been up to? The other thing that spoiled it for me is that I read the sequel. Which was awful. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosemarys-baby-how-does-it-hold-up/661290/44 "2013-06-19T21:34:05Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > I think the movie _per se_ holds up well. What is a little harder to get over is that it was set in the late 60s, and here it is forty years later - where’s the Devil’s son and what has he been up to? He changed his name to Andrew Davenport. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosemarys-baby-how-does-it-hold-up/661290/45 "2013-06-20T13:49:35Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > He changed his name to Andrew Davenport. About half-way thru the sequel, I began to mentally label him “the Andy-Christ” and think of him as physically resembling Woody Allen, except with vertical pupils. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosemarys-baby-how-does-it-hold-up/661290/46 "2013-06-20T14:03:54Z")
I haven’t seen it for many years but it was a classic and I don’t know why it wouldn’t be good today- much like the classic The Omen. I can’t think of Rosemary’s Baby without thinking of this [Mad Magazine cover.](http://www.madcoversite.com/mad124.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosemarys-baby-how-does-it-hold-up/661290.md?page=2)