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Posted on 11/14/2007 8:43:00 PM PST by EveningStar
Ira Levin, author of the best-selling horror and suspense novels "Rosemary's Baby," "The Stepford Wives" and "The Boys from Brazil," all later made into popular films, has died at age 78, according to media reports...
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Rosemary’s Baby..what a strange movie that was?!?
Fine movie. Fine book. The sequel, “Son of Rosemary,” released 30 years later, was disappointing.
Boys from Brazil, that was a creepy movie.
That’s because the sequel wasn’t made by Roman Polanski in his prime.
I was talking about the book, Son of Rosemary. I didn’t realize a movie had been made of it.
One of my favorites
Again? Must be having a bad week!
There was a made for tv movie sequel within a few years of the original: Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby (1976) (TV)
I went to see a lecture by Ray Bradbury about a decade ago. He saw Rosemary’s Baby when it came out and was soured by the ending. He’d done screenwriting too (as a script doctor, not just adapting his own works) and postulated his own ending.
He didn’t understand Rosemary suddenly “accepting” the coven and offered up his own ending where Rosemary grabs the baby, flees her apartment, and goes to a church to hold up the child. My recollection is now hazy, he had a succinct phrasing to encapsulate how Lucifer was a fallen angel and how God could redeem this child.
But “creepy” ending wins out over profound.
She sure wasn't ready to forgive her husband. She makes a statement early in the movie about not knowing what she believed about God. All along they try to develope her maternal instinct. She was in love with the baby and was so sad not to be able to keep it safe when the "witches" came and got her. So it's not really that much of a stretch for her to accept it. Personally, I wish she would have killed it.
I remember it. I saw it. Son of Rosemary was Levin's own sequel, written in 1997.
“Rosemary’s Baby,” book and movie, were great. The book he wrote as a sequel, whatever it was called, was embarrassingly bad. Really not even worth checking out if you liked the original.
Several years ago, I was in the library and spotted Son of Rosemary on the shelf. I wanted to read it, but I wanted to read Rosemary's Baby first. So I checked both books out and did just that.
For me, Rosemary's Baby was excellent, but Son of Rosemary was a huge letdown.
Terrific writer, able to write truly compelling suspense stories. He and Donald Westlake make the current bestselling “suspense” authors look so boring in comparison.
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