Apartment 7A
While theRosemary ’s BabyprequelApartment 7Alooks exciting , it is difficult to ignore the motion picture ’s resurgence of 2024 ’s most bizarrely specific revulsion style . Released in 1968,Rosemary ’s Babywas a successful adaption of Ira Levin ’s bestselling novel of the same name . The foxily satiric supernatural repulsion narrative follow Rosemary , a newlywed who go into a creepy New York apartment building with her self - centered actor husband . Rosemary becomes pregnant and , as strange happening pile up , she begins to realize that something is very awry . TheupcomingRosemary ’s BabyprequelApartment 7Awill flourish the original moving-picture show ’s story .
The most obvious trouble with Rosemary ’s Baby prequel Apartment 7A is that audience know how it ends – but that could be its greatest strength .
flat 7Afocuses on Julie Garner ’s dancer Terry Gionoffrio , who move into Rosemary ’s apartment construction shortly before her . After Terry ’s bright dancing career is derail by an injury , she finds that her elderly neighbors Minnie and Roman Castevet begin taking an insalubrious interest in her . viewing audience intimate with the story ofRosemary ’s Babywill already know how Terry ’s story ends , but the motion picture ’s dawdler promise sight of panic before the large climax . AfterAmerican Horror Story : DelicaterevisitedRosemary ’s Babyearlier this year , Apartment 7Ajoins a longsighted line of 2024 repugnance movies exploring one popular topic .
Rosemary’s Baby Prequel Apartment 7A Is 2024’s Latest Pregnancy Horror
Immaculate, The First Omen, Alien: Romulus, and American Horror Story: Delicate Shared This Twist
try by its promotional materials , Apartment 7Ais the latest in a bowed stringed instrument of major 2024 horror releases about deadly pregnancies . This is somewhat surprising since , before 2024 , pregnancy horror movies struggled with critics and audiences alike . 2023’sBaby Ruby , 2023’sUnwelcome , 2022’sBed Rest , 2021’sFalse Positive , and 2016’sVisionsall failed to win over reviewers , leaving the sub - musical style seeming like a particularly speculative bet for Almighty . However , 2024 thoroughly reversed this trend . Many of 2024 ’s biggest repulsion movies center on gestation , and most have earned stellar reviews by interrogating the theme .
WhileAmerican Horror Story : Delicate ’s reception was n’t particularly stiff , The First Omen , Immaculate , andAlien : Romulusall succeeded as pregnancy repugnance movies . The latter sci - fi horror seemed like an unlikely gestation horror , butAlien : Romulus ’ worst death scenefocused on a gestation that go horrifically awry . Meanwhile , The First OmenandImmaculateboth focused on young women who were inadvertently impregnated with the Antichrist . Judging by both its trailer and the story ofRosemary ’s Baby , Apartment 7Ais likely to revisit this specific eccentric of gestation repugnance . However , the prequel will necessitate to make some alterations .
Apartment 7A’s Prequel Story May Subvert This Horror Trend
The Rosemary’s Baby Spinoff Can’t End With A Successful Delivery
UnlikeThe First Omen , American Horror Story : Delicate , andImmaculate , Apartment 7Acan’t conclude with its heroine reach birth to the Antichrist . After all , there would be noRosemary ’s Babyif Terry ’s impregnation by the devil was successful . This could be a job for the prequel , as a passing knowledge ofRosemary ’s Babymakes its plot pretty predictable . To quash this , flat 7Amay make a wild change to horror account by having Terry not only live , but even save Rosemary . This would be a fun twist , but it would lead toApartment 7Adefanging the plot ofRosemary ’s Baby .
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