“This is no dream, this is really happening!” And yes, it is really happening and this film paved the way to decadence. In this film, Roman Polanski exposes Satanic content to the world. He warned his audiences of an important cultural shift in the future that will dawn in a new age. The film is based on the novel by the same name. Rosemary’s Baby is about a innocent and vulnerable girl by the name of Rosemary Woodhouse (played by Mia Farrow) who is married to a struggling actor by the name of Guy (played by John Cassavetes) and she comes to believe that Satanists are scheming to steal her unborn baby for human sacrifice. Rosemary and Guy’s set up home is at the Dakota where John Lennon later lived with his wife Yoko Ono. It was disturbing to discover that her husband, Guy sold Rosemary and his unborn child to the Satanists to further his acting career. How far are people willing to go for this thing called fame? It makes me think that he was one of the most wicked husband’s in all of film. Roman Polanski demonstrates a drugged and unconscious woman being raped by the devil (as an offering to Satan as his bride) and also reveals that there were scratch marks on her body. It was even more troubling when her husband claimed, “It was kind of fun in a necrophile sort of way, I didn’t want to miss baby night,” it feels as if he was making a disturbing apology for raping his unconscious wife (even though it is not true, the devil raped Rosemary). But the truth, he is concealing is even more disturbing than what Rosemary realises. Rosemary tries to escape, but they catch her, and then she goes into labour. She falls prey to the suspicion that Satanists may have used her child in a sacrifice. She comes upon a crowd of familiar faces, standing around a black crib. Everyone watches as the innocent mother of the devil’s child sees the image of her baby not butchered as a human sacrifice but as something far worse, “Its eyes! What have you done to its eyes!” She hears Satanic praises of victory from the crowd: “Hail Satan!” “God is Dead!” “The year is One!” It seems that Roman Polanski manufactured this film to introduce a new belief, a new religion and a new era that will one day become an acceptable religion for all. Now, I understand why Roman Polanski made Rosemary hold onto the cover of Time magazine on their April 1966 issue, which asked “Is God Dead?” in bold red letters on a black background. When Rosemary (played by Mia Farrow) sings the Devil’s lullaby over the opening and ending credits, it is a hint that even innocence will submit to the new satanic wave. It is like the way Rosemary discovers the truth and opens the Pandora box, Polanski reveals the darker side of the human race, the carnal and bestial human desires that had been concealed for years and now is being normalized as we enter the age of decadence. Rosemary’s Baby explores the underground Satanist concepts in order to normalize their values to the world. It was an endorsement of eroticising Satanic ritual abuse so that mass numbers of youth (of the 1960s) may be interested in joining Anton LaVey’s church of Satan, which was founded two years before the initial release of the film and was also a guideline for how to practice Satanic rituals. Strangely, there are rumours that Anton LaVey played the devil who raped Rosemary in the film. This movie also predicted the rise of Satanism, such as the rise of Lucien Greaves (the co-founder of the Satanic Temple), and the fall of God. It also paved the way for Netflix’s Satanic TV themes as we can clearly see with the highly occult TV shows such as (just to name a few) the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Lucifer. @janmorrow1225 of the Teen Review Board at the Hamilton Public Library