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Contains major spoilers for Apartment 7A.
This article contains mentions of suicide, violence against women, and murder.
Serving as aprequel toRosemary’s Baby,Apartment 7Abegins a few months before its parent movie.
InApartment 7A’s ending arc, Terry even threatens the Castevets that she will stab herself.
With this, Terry initially seems to accept her fate and agrees to conform to the coven’s expectations.
The two characters' narratives differ significantly because Terry never wanted to have a baby in the first place.
Therefore, she took the drastic step inApartment 7A’s closing moments.
Sensing her desperation, Marchand sees her as the perfect target for the coven.
In the original book, Rosemary, much like Terry, considers killing her child and dying from suicide.
The demonic figure inApartment 7Aseemingly serves a different purpose.
Terry even falls for Satan’s trap after initially agreeing to keep the child.
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It also subtly dabbles with ideassurrounding female autonomy and reproductive rights with its portrayal of Rosemary’s struggles.
Ira Levin also published a sequel to Rosemary’s Baby, titled Son of Rosemary, in 1997.
Both books were adapted into the NBC miniseries Rosemary’s Baby, which starred Zoe Saldana.
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To highlight its narrative intersections withRosemary’s Baby,Apartment 7Afeatures blink-or-miss scenes where Rosemary and Terry cross paths.
She claims that she must prevent the cult’s plans from coming to fruition.
However, before she can kill Terry, someone else seemingly murders her.
John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, and Maurice Evans also star.
As strange events occur there, she begins to question her sanity and the motives of her enigmatic neighbors.
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Directed by Roman Polanski and starring Mia Farrow, Rosemary’s Baby chronicles the chilling tale of Rosemary Woodhouse, the wife of an actor who, after finding out she is pregnant, begins to suspect that her unborn child is something far more sinister than a normal baby. John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, and Maurice Evans also star.
In this psychological thriller, a young woman is forced into a mysterious cult after moving into a seemingly ordinary apartment complex. As strange events occur there, she begins to question her sanity and the motives of her enigmatic neighbors.
