I decided to watch 'Rosemary's Baby' tonight to complete the demon child movie cycle and here is a commentary of my thoughts throughout it:
"Why is the baby not dead?"
"Why hasn't she stabbed the baby?"
"Oooh, is that tea like boiling hot? Pour it on the baby!"
"Kill it already!"
"Look they're distracted, stab it!"
"Why hasn't she killed her baby?"
"Gawd I sat through all that and I didn't see a baby death?!"
This film actually just annoyed me more than anything. Why didn't she slap them all and stand up to her husband and stab that goddamn baby?! Gah! I like that the Satanists were protrayed as normal people though instead of the typical goths or mentalists, they were just annoying busy bodies that grinned too much. Their chant of "HAIL SATAN! HAIL SATAN!" at the end must've been what Tenacious D are referencing in their song 'Double Team' I always wondered why they said that and figured it was just Tenacious D being weird but it makes more sense now, thanks intertextuality! And Rosemary yelling "It's alive!" when her baby was born reminded me of his Frankenstein when his similarly monstrous child was brought to life. And Rosemary spitting in her husband's face reminded me of the delightful Regan from the other demon child film 'The Exorcist'.
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