I was looking through imdb.com today and was rading about "Rosemary's Baby". Roman Polanski's version is terrifying, many of character's actually seem like people I would see at my job any day of the week, yet they are evil, going so far as to impregnate a woman with the son of Satan. Back in high school, I was writing a paper on the short story "Where are you Going, Where have you Been" by Joyce Carol Oates and in my research I came across the book the "Son of Rosemary" by Ira Levin (the same author as "Rosemary's Baby") and I thought, "Wow, this should be interesting to read. Well it wasn't the worse piece of crap I've read but it kind of robbed me of my time. Not only do they continue the original book with the Rosemary coming out of a coma after the last thirty years, they totally threw away both books plots with Rosemary waking up from a dream right before the events in the first novel (WHAT THE HELL!!!! WHY DOES THIS SOUND LIKE A BAD TV SHOW!!!) That's fine. It can't ruin the movie that is legendary among horror fanactics (among a unoffical trilogy of "The Exorcist" and "The Omen").
This is before I saw a link for a film called "Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby?". All could think of at the time, was "Are you F'ing kidding me?" Turns out that the actress who won an Oscar for her role in the film (Ruth Gordan) also was in this one. Did she really want to do this or did she really run out of money. My hope is it was the latter. God help whoever decided to direct this piece of TV crap that has a 3 on imdb.com (actually it looks like he was an actor/director; guess that formula doesn't always work lol). And yes I am judging a book by its cover but considering it doesn't take a genius to realize this was a bad idea, then I think I am entitled to this error this one time.
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