Baby Rosemary

1976

Drama / Horror

43
IMDb Rating 5.4/10 10 298 298

rape nightmare knife police officer sexual repression occult

Plot summary

After the death of her father, a beautiful, though sexually traumatized, young woman enters an erotic nightmare while awaiting his funeral.

Director

John Hayes Photo
John Hayes

Top cast

Tino Costello Photo
Tino Costello as
Melba Bruce Photo
Melba Bruce as Marsh
Dale Meador Photo
Dale Meador as Thomas Price
Monique Cardin Photo
Monique Cardin as Kate
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666.79 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 19 min
Seeds 4
1.26 GB
1920*1024
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 19 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lazarillo

A "feel-bad" roughie porno movie

This is one of those 1970's porno films that achieves a level of nihilistic misanthropy and general malaise rarely seen outside of an Italian cannibal film (which is actually why I watched it--it sure wasn't for the thoroughly unattractive performers and unappealing sex scenes). It's kind of hardcore version of the ultra-depressing sexploitation film "Toys Are Not for Children". They should show it to sex offenders because it will make them want to castrate themselves with a rusty kitchen knife (or at the very least put them off sex for awhile).As in "Toys" the movie is about a young woman who is obsessed with the father who abandoned her to a brutal orphanage. This leads her as an adult to seek out sexually abusive relationships with men including an associate of her father's who violently rapes her the first time they meet. Meanwhile, she neglects her nice guy boyfriend, who takes up with a skanky prostitute and turns into quite a misogynist himself. But this film isn't only about misogyny, it's also about necrophilia, including, not just one, but two orgies set in a funeral home. The ending is not as much of a surprise, but is every bit the brutal punch-to-the-gut of "Toys" or its most famous hardcore contemporary "The Devil in Miss Jones". The violence towards women is pretty disturbing frankly, but it's obviously meant to be disturbing, which actually makes it LESS disturbing than true sicko porn films like those of Sean Costello or Zebedy Colt. And the audience sympathy here is always with the woman rather than the abusive males.If you're like me and you really hate "feel-good" romantic comedies, you should seek this out as it is the EXACT opposite--a "feel-bad" roughie hardcore porno movie. God knows, the world needs that sometimes too.
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Reviewed by golden_muse 1 / 10

Awful

I may not be qualified to review this title, as I only made it through the first ten minutes. Yet in that time, I saw the heroine being humiliated by a man who supposedly cared for her and then raped at knifepoint.

Granted, I didn't go in expecting The Color Purple. Yet I was expecting an intelligent adult film, not a horror movie. And while I'm definitely not a censorship maven (indeed, I work for an adult magazine), I really wish that filmmakers would stop confusing rape with sex.

No offense to Candida Royalle and John Leslie, both of whom I adore. I'm just glad they've bone gone on to bigger (and better) things. This movie, for its part, needs to go in the trash.

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