The Battle of B: Rosemary’s Baby vs. It’s Alive!

Rosemary's Baby

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Rosemary's Baby = Roman Polanski's first American feature film, released the year of my birth (an event all in itself that would make the year go down in history) that was based on Ira Levin's book of the same title released in 1967.

This psychological horror flick features Mia Farrow as Rosemary, who along with her husband Guy, move into a New York apartment building that seems to be inhibited mostly by the elderly. One elderly couple in particular begins to take a shine to the young couple, and meddle their way into the young couples lives.

Soon after, Rosemary and Guy decide they want to start a family. It's at this time that Rosemary is visited by the elderly couple and given a celebratory chocolate mousse that seemingly drugs Rosemary and causes her to hallucinate that she is being raped by a "beast."

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