Apartment 7A‘s First Trailer Digs Into a Satanic Horror Backstory

Paramount has released its archetypal trailer for Apartment 7A, its upcoming prequel to 1968’s Rosemary’s Baby. Have astatine it:

As elaborate successful the trailer, the communicative is acceptable successful 1965 New York and concerns an aspiring dancer named Terry Gionoffrio (Julia Garner) who suffers an ankle injury. After moving into the archetypal film’s cursed Bramford flat building, she meets a well-connected aged mates (Dianne Wiest and Kevin McNally) who committedness her a 2nd accidental astatine making her imagination travel true. By coincidence oregon design, a neighboring tenant (Jim Sturgess) just truthful happens to beryllium an influential Broadway producer. Unsurprisingly if you’ve seen the original, Terry has occupation remembering an evening spent with her caller friends and whitethorn present beryllium the unwilling parent of the Antichrist.

While it whitethorn look an unusual licence to physique a franchise from, Apartment 7A is either the third, 4th oregon 5th installment of the Rosemary’s Baby saga depending connected however you look astatine it. Following the archetypal film, a made-for-TV sequel titled Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby aired connected ABC successful 1976. In 1997, writer Ira Levin wrote a Son of Rosemary, a sequel to his archetypal caller 30 years later. In 2014, a two-part, 4 hr modernization of the original movie aired connected NBC. This caller film, which sees Wiest and McNally taking implicit the roles of Minnie and Roman Castavet from Ruth Gordon and Sidney Blackmer, respectively, volition seemingly chronicle their archetypal failed effort to commencement the lad of Satan.

If this each sounds silly and unnecessary to you, you’re not wrong, but astatine slightest the costumes and acceptable plan look nice. And we’re precise funny astir that sequin-encrusted demon astatine the extremity of the trailer meant to bespeak the folly of showbiz, oregon whatever. Judging by the trailer, the accumulation looks similar a cosplay of the archetypal film, truthful your mileage volition alteration connected whether oregon not that’s appealing to you. If you bask campy and fearfulness franchises for their ain sake, though, you’ll apt find thing to bask here.

In summation to Garner, Wiest, McNally, and Sturgess, Apartment 7A co-stars JMarli Siu, Rosy McEwen, Scott Hume, Andrew Buchan, and Koba Holdbrook-Smith—plus Kevin Swanton arsenic Satan and Amy Leeson arsenic Rosemary Woodhouse. It’s directed by Natalie Erika James (Relic), with a surface communicative by Skylar James and a screenplay by Natalie Erika James & Christian White and Skylar James.

It premieres this September 27 exclusively connected Paramount+. 

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