Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976)

Please don't spend money on this.

Just perfect...

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Pretty lousy made-for-TV sequel to the Roman Polanski classic. Rosemary's son Adrian has grown up and is embodied by creepy Stephen McHattie. After eliminating Rosemary (here played by Patty Duke) a coven of witches, again led by Minnie & Roman Castevets, preps Satan's son for world domination. It's not really scary and light years less macabre than its predecessor. Instead, writer Anthony Wilson and director Sam O'Steen opt for a Satan-worshiping thriller full of a lot of chanting, plenty of candles, and Ruth Gordon trying to act daffy and nasty at the same time. Gordon's the sole holdover from the original. George Maharis replaces John Cassavetes as Guy and a very hammy Ray Milland plays Roman Castevets, subbing for the late Sidney Blackmer. Newcomer McHattie is the film's only real saving grace. He's very off-kilter and looks really sinister without even doing anything. The music by Charles Bernstein is suitably creepy, but so over-used, it's ends up being intrusive rather than effective. O'Steen, who edited the earlier Polanski masterpiece, shows no flair or subtlety whatsoever.

Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976) BOMB (out of 4) It's funny to think that one of the most popular films ever made has a sequel yet very few know about it and even lesser actually remember it. I'm really not sure what type of drugs were being passed around at Paramount when this film got the green light but let's hope those taking eventually recovered. The now adult Adrian (Stephen McHattie) is having growing pains as he keeps getting the urges to do evil things. Little does he know the truth behind his birth but soon his real dad, Satan of course, is getting ready to give him full control of his powers. This made-for-TV flick is bad, really bad but I guess that happens when you have Patty Duke taking over for Mia Farrow. This film has very little real connections to Polanski's classic so it's really unfair to compare the two as both films were obviously created for different reasons. Even when you don't compare this thing to the Polanski movie you're still left with something truly horrid and I still can't believe they even attempted something like this, although I'm going to guess THE OMEN being a big hit helped push this movie along. We have Ruth Gordon back in her role from the previous movie but Ray Milland takes over as her husband and we even have Broderick Crawford in a small role. It's a shame so many talented people put their name on this thing but I guess we can't blame them too much for trying to make a living. Director O'Steen, who edited the original movie, really doesn't have too much to work with as the screenplay offers up on bad scene after another and the level of dumbness just grows worse and worse as the movie goes along. The entire idea of this guy being split to do good or evil is nothing original and the way it plays out here is just extremely lame and boring. Within fifteen-minutes I started to grow tired and the bad pacing didn't help but next eighty-minutes. The screenplay follows one cliché after another and one really has to ask what any of it was suppose to mean. The film changes small items that were put in place by the first film but the entire third act is just mind-blowingly stupid. The performances really aren't anything better as both Gordon and Milland seem bored out of their minds and McHattie just has nothing in the lead. Even worse is Duke who really stinks up the scenes she's in as she overacts something terrible. This film has slipped into obscurity and I'm sure it will never be rescued from it, which is understandable. I would like to hear or read something as to what the producer's were thinking when they made this thing but I'm sure everyone connected to this thing would rather just pretend it never happened.

One of the most unique prospects for making a sequel to a beloved horror flick: a *made-for-TV* horror flick??? "Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby" was delivered in the middle of the doomy 70s, when TV movies were actually considered scary. Just ask anybody who watched Karen Black fall to the ferocious attack of an ugly wooden doll. Just like its predecessor, "LWHTRB" attempts to leave most of the supernatural happenings hinted at rather than brought out into the light. By now you've heard all about this movie's bad rep, and indeed, look at that low rating here on IMDb. It's hard to deny that the film suffers from a number of chronic illnesses, like a small-screen budget, a number of lazy performances, and a lack of special effects.But expectations for the sequel to "Rosemary's Baby" could be the real reason this movie does not succeed. Instead of a clockwork Ira Levin plot, which was so effectively dramatized by Roman Polanski and his brilliant cast, Sam O'Steen's sequel is a full blooded 70s freak-out, complete with hallucinogenic images, an untraditional narrative, and a downbeat tone that never lets up. At times it's ludicrous and amateurish, and other times it can be engaging in spite of itself.Divided into three chapters, the first segment deals with Rosemary and her attempts to instill a sense of good in her son, Adrian. She insists his name is Andrew, something she tells him in private, and she tells him he is good and that he should not believe the evil things the coven tells him. Although she lives with the coven and bides her time, she makes a break when they decide it's time to indoctrinate the boy by performing a ritual with him. Rosemary escapes with him and gets him away from the coven, only to wind up stranded in a desert town. A hooker named Marjean takes her in, but Marjean winds up controlled by the coven, who see fit to dispatch with Rosemary by luring her onto a driverless bus. As she's carried away, pounding in panic at the windows, the film's most compelling moment takes place, a child separated from his mother and left in the care of a stranger.From there, the final two segments deal with Adrian as an adult, and the coven is out to activate his evil side in any way they can. Adrian feels the good qualities that Rosemary instilled in him, however, pulling him in the other direction. An attempt to endow him with the spirit of Satan fails when Adrian's friend foils the ceremony, and Adrian sees his dead body in a Christlike hallucination. Following the incident, Adrian is confined to an institution, awakening from an undetermined period of catatonia to find that he's been blamed for his friends death and locked up. A seemingly sympathetic nurse helps him to escape, but of course she has motivations of her own.This is not a great film, but it's definitely an unusual one. I can't think of many other hit films that were sequelized on television, although I'm sure it's been done before. But the real reason I love "Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby" are the doomy elements and the intriguing story, which really comes from left field. It avoids being obvious by being absolutely nuts.

I saw this long ago and wanna see it again!I need to find a video.Anyway,this movie was a hoot!Ruth Gordon worshipping the devil again and plotting domination or something.Another terrible Patty Duke TV movie that works for me.