Warning! Contains spoilers for Apartment 7A.
The fact thatApartment 7Aserves asRosemary’s Baby’s prequel raises several questions surrounding its timeline compared to the parent film. Directed by Natalie Erika James of the Relic fame,Apartment 7Astars Julia Garner as its main character, Terry, who fatefully ends up inRosemary’s Baby’s central New York City Renaissance Revival apartment building. With what follows, she not only learns the dark truth about the building’s residents but also faces a dire choice that forces her to put her life on the line.
Long beforeApartment 7A’s release, Terry was portrayed as a secondarycharacter inRosemary’s Baby’s narrative. Although she is not among the leads in the parent film, her sudden death sets in motion a series of events that eventually lead to Rosemary’s gradual descent into paranoia and despair. Owing to these narrative connections between the two films, many might be curious about how their timelines overlap and extend beyond each other’s stories.
Apartment 7A’s Timeline Begins Several Months Before Rosemary’s Baby
BothRosemary’s BabyandApartment 7Aareset in 1965. However, sinceApartment 7AisRosemary’s Baby’s prequel, its narrative begins several months before the 1968 movie. InApartment 7A’s opening arc, its main character, Terry, breaks her ankle.The movie then cuts to four months in the future, highlighting how Terry struggles to land dancing gigs and make ends meet. This is when she eventually runs into the Castevets, who give her a place to stay in the central apartment building.
Rosemary’s Baby Ending, Explained
The unsettling final scene of the 1968 horror classic Rosemary’s Baby confirms the title character’s fears and solidifies the movie’s timely themes.
The day Terry moves into the apartment building, she gets invited to Alan Marchand’s home, where the cult performs a satanic ritual on her. Following the ritual, she gets pregnant with the Anti-Christ, and, only days later, Lily Gardenia attacks her to stop the Anti-Christ from coming into the world. However, before Gardenia can kill her, someone murders the rogue cult member. A few days after Lily Gardenia’s demise, Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse move to her home in the central apartment building.
How Much Of Rosemary’s Baby’s Timeline Does Apartment 7A Cover?
It Only Covers a Brief Segment Of Rosemary’s Baby’s Timeline
Although the two movies do not explicitly mention their timelines, it would be fair to assume thatTerry learns the truth about the Castevets' true motives a few days, or, at most, a few weeks after Lily dies and the Woodhouses move in. This would explain why she initially praises the Castavets when she meets Rosemary and even seems quite happy when she meets her in the basement’s laundry. However, within a few days after her second encounter with Rosemary in the basement, Terry seemingly realizes that the building’s residents are up to no good.
Since Rosemary’s pregnancy progresses unusually fast in the original book, it is hard not to believe thatRosemary Baby’s timeline extends a few weeks beyondApartment 7A’s.
As seen inRosemary’s Baby, Terry’s narrative ends with her death, and the Castevets only target Rosemary after Terry’s demise. Therefore, it seems likeRosemary’s Baby’s second arc begins somewhere aroundApartment 7A’s ending. Since Rosemary’s pregnancy progresses unusually fast in the original book, it is hard not to believe thatRosemary Baby’s timeline extends a few weeks beyondApartment 7A’s.
Rosemary’s Baby
Directed by Roman Polanski and starring Mia Farrow, Rosemary’s Baby chronicles the chilling tale of Rosemary Woodhouse, the wife of an actor who, after finding out she is pregnant, begins to suspect that her unborn child is something far more sinister than a normal baby. John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, and Maurice Evans also star.
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In this psychological thriller, a young woman is forced into a mysterious cult after moving into a seemingly ordinary apartment complex. As strange events occur there, she begins to question her sanity and the motives of her enigmatic neighbors.
