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.
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 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'. 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.
