Social media platforms like TikTok are always looking for new viral content. Because people want to share the latest trend online, they continue to look to the past to see if they can bring something back into popularity. Now, the iconic gothic horror film Rosemary’s Baby by Roman Polanski has been making a resurgence thanks to social media activity online – and today’s young audience can not handle how horrifying the movie is.
Although director Roman Polanski has since been disgraced due to his sexual misconduct, the cult film from 1968 remains at the top of the list of best classic horror films of all time as ranked by Forbes. The film makes it to number two on that list. The movie that reached the top ranking on that list was the classic film by Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho.
In Rosemary’s Baby, actor Mia Farrow plays Rosemary Woodhouse. She’s a young woman who is forced to give birth to the son of the devil as she is drugged, abused, and tortured by people in a Satanic cult that ultimately aims to steal her newborn baby and worship it as an anti-God.
Now that Rosemary’s Baby has been making a resurgence on social media thanks to people sharing the content on platforms like TikTok and Instagram, the scary movie has been watched by a whole new generation of viewers who are admittedly a bit too chicken to finish the entire film.
Users turned to Twitter to share their reactions to the Polanski cult classic horror film, and the consensus is clear – today’s generation of youth is not as strong-stomached as their elders.
One Twitter user wrote, “To this day, I cannot watch Rosemary’s Baby. It freaks me out way too much.”
Other young social media users shared, “Rosemary’s Baby. Just disturbing,” while another person wrote, “Rosemary’s Baby, even more disturbing now.”
Another person expressed their fear surrounding the movie by writing, “Yep, Rosemary’s Baby is still a very disturbing film; after seeing it again, I can see Ari Aster used it as the inspiration for Hereditary; maybe it’s just the Satan stuff, in general, I find creepy.”
Rosemary’s Baby has made a resurgence on social media during a time in American history when people are forcing women to undergo pregnancy, like the main character in the movie. Women in some states are denied their right to an abortion because of pro-life advocates who believe that the state should be in control of a woman’s choice to go through with a pregnancy or not.
In the movie, Mia Farrow expertly depicts the ordeal of a woman undergoing a forced pregnancy as she gets manipulated and abused by her on-screen husband, Guy, who was played by John Cassavetes. The rest of the Satanic cult also abuses the Rosemary character throughout the movie.
Because so many women in states where abortion has been made illegal are forced to go through an unwanted pregnancy, the movie is hitting home to an entirely new generation of viewers.
