Rosemaries Baby [Rosemary's]

245 pp. German translation of the novel that inspired the 1968 Roman Polanski film starring Mia Farrow. "Rosemary's Baby is a 1967 best-selling horror novel by Ira Levin, his second published book. Rosemary's Baby is [also] a 1968 American horror/thriller film written and directed by Roman Polanski. The screenplay is based on the bestselling 1967 novel of the same name by Ira Levin. Whether directly or not, many subsequent novels and films are inspired by Levin's novel Rosemary's Baby... The Devil's Advocate (film) repeats Levin's plot-contrivances, in which another woman becomes a pawn for her husband's upward rise to fame; The Astronaut's Wife, is about a woman who is impregnated by an extraterrestrial-alien that has taken over the mind and body of her husband (Coincidentally, in both those films the subject wife is played by Charlize Theron). Similarly, the novels Lupe (1977) by Gene Thompson, and The Glow (1978) by Brooks Stanwood, share plot elements with Rosemary's Baby; the former story about a Hispanic hare-lipped boy who dabbles in the occult and reincarnates himself in the womb of his unwitting female host-victim, and the latter (in essence) about a coven of elderly New York City 'vampires' who prey on healthy thirtysomething joggers for their immortalizing blood serum. With the exception of Lupe (San Francisco, CA), the individual storylines of these aforementioned films and novels largely take place in New York City; the protagonist couples are young, upwardly mobile, and acquire choice residency near Central Park (as in Levin's novel, the spacious 'classic' floorplan of the Woodhouse couple's Bramford apartment)."