History Film / RosemarysBaby

* UnbuiltTrope: While it's the GenrePopularizer for ReligiousHorror, these days it almost plays like a [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] of it, since the genre would evolve in a more extreme [[SupernaturalFiction supernatural]] direction. The villains are BitchInSheepsClothing EvilOldFolks rather than sinister ObviouslyEvil types, the horror is more low-key and built around a slow burn, with few JumpScare moments, and--in contrast to the deadly serious tone usually associated with ReligiousHorror--there's a lot of wry BlackComedy. And ultimately, [[spoiler:Satan himself only has a brief cameo appearance, while we don't even get to see the Antichrist (in the film, at least; he is described in the novel)]].

** Guy's subversion to the dark side becomes subtly obvious right after the very first night he meets Roman Castevet and tells Rosemary he wants to go back to hear more stories.

%%* CharacterTics: Guy's nervous laughter.

* DeathOfAChild: What Rosemary thinks will happen to her baby once it's born. [[spoiler: It turns out to be quite the opposite]].

%%Doesn't explain the irony * IronicNurseryTune: "Rosemary's Lullaby," the wordless vocal theme that opens and closes the film, [[DoItYourselfThemeTune performed by an uncredited Mia Farrow herself]]. It's a soft, sweet heartwarming tune that is oddly placed in an ominous film about [[spoiler: devil worship]]. And ironic given that the mother [[spoiler: sings this to her infant child which is the Antichrist]]. It's also known as "Sleep Safe and Warm," and recordings with official lyrics can be found (for example, Claudine Longet's version).

* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:All of the witches are revealed in the end to have the exact same personalities as they displayed all along; they're just also worshipers of Satan. The Castavets, in particular, maintain their casual and friendly personalities]].

* MundaneHorror: Basically the gist of the whole Polanski "apartment trilogy". A seemingly ordinary apartment complex with friendly neighbors where the protagonist is increasingly disturbed, having strange medical symptoms and believing that the people around them are up to something. [[spoiler:Which turns out to be the truth]].

* SignificantBirthDate: Rosemary gives birth on [[spoiler:June 25 -- the Anti-Christmas -- in the sixth month of the year 1966 ([[NumberOfTheBeast 6/66]]). The movie begins in 1965 and during the New Year's Eve party, Roman says, "Happy new year, 1966! Year one!" [[spoiler: This is a nod to Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan, since Anton considered 1966 "Year One" because 1966 is when he established the Church of Satan.]] According to the novel, [[spoiler: an old Satanic prophecy pinpointed this date for the birth of the Antichrist]].

* DaylightHorror: Rosemary's attempted escape from the cultists and her birth all take place in bright summer daylight and stifling heat.

* AllThereInTheManual: At the end of the book Rosemary seriously considers killing Andy and then committing suicide for a few minutes, much like Terry did at the beginning of the novel under similar circumstances. She then takes pity on Andy, after seeing the terrified look on his face. After considering all the options she decides to raise Andy as her own. Even though he's a demon, she decides to love him and mother him and let her good natured human personality influence him, hopefully to do good ( "he's half Devil but half me after all!"). She also decides to report everything to the Pope and the Vatican, and to let them handle the issue as they see fit (whether that be executing Andy, forgiving him or trying to reform him). None of this is said in the movie; we just see Rosemary begin to rock the cradle and look at the baby inquisitively as the camera pulls back, the lullaby cues up on the soundtrack and the movie fades out and ends.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: After Guy receives the phone call about actor Donald Baumgart having gone blind, he leaves the apartment to go for a walk. In the novel, Rosemary sits on the living room window seat waiting to see Guy come out the main entrance, but never spots him. "He must have taken the exit towards 55th street." [[spoiler: This could symbolize that Guy instead has visited the Castevets, or it's a literal clue that Guy now has become unpredictable to Rosemary. In the film, moments after Guy leaves the apartment, we hear a neighbor's doorbell ring. In the very next scene Rosemary rings the Castevets' doorbell. This is a "tell" referring to where Guy went in the preceding scene --to warn the Castevets of Rosemary's planned meeting with Hutch, and to set in motion the hexing of him via the glove Guy had stolen from Hutch]].

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler:The deaths of Mrs. Gardenia and Hutch and the blindness of Donald Baumgart were apparently caused by spells cast by the coven but were assumed to be naturally caused]]. It is often debated if [[spoiler: Terry committed suicide or was murdered by the Castevet's for not cooperating. It is likely the latter, and they probably staged the scene to look like a suicide when it was a homicide, because she wouldn't be their surrogate for the Antichrist. This is probably when they figured they had to drug someone surreptitiously, that no one could be bribed to mate with Satan as they had obviously hoped.]]

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler:The deaths of Mrs. Gardenia and Hutch and the blindness of Donald Baumgart were apparently caused by spells cast by the coven but were assumed to be naturally caused]].

%%* PeopleInRubberSuits: {{Satan}}.

* SignificantBirthDate: Rosemary gives birth on [[spoiler:June 25 -- the Anti-Christmas -- in the sixth month of the year 1966 ([[NumberOfTheBeast 6/66]]). The movie begins in 1965 and during the New Year's Eve party, Roman says, "Happy new year, 1966! Year one!" [[spoiler: This is a nod to Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan, since Anton considered 1966 "Year One" because 1966 is when he established the Church of Satan.]] According to the novel, an old Satanic prophecy pinpointed this date for the birth of the Antichrist]].

* FaceHeelTurn: Unlike the original movie, where Rosemary seemed to be traumatized yet quietly resigned to protecting her infant from the cult, in the remake it's implied that she actually becomes at ease with what they have done and truly in love with the child with no revulsion. Enough so that she appears to be entrusted to walk him in the pram with no surveilance.