A review by olafindisguise
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

3.0

The plot and premises have been recycled and milked so many times and the source material has been exhausted so often that, for a person in their 20s reading it for the first time, it was pretty predictable. You could smell every single twist and turn in the story from a kilometer away. And yet it did not make it any less enjoyable. The setups and foreshadowing were only obvious because a lot of the them have been used many, many times since. It's not exactly timeless, per se, but its influence on horror and pop culture is enough of a reason to pick it up and study all the interesting ways it has shaped the genre.