This article contains references to suicide.
Warning: This article contains spoilers forApartment 7A.
Paramount+’s newRosemary’s Babyprequel,Apartment 7A, finally debunks the biggest fan theory about Terry Gionoffrio’s mysterious death from the original movie, although not in the most obvious way. Terry is the young woman who was targeted by the Bramford’s Satanic cult before they turned their sights on Rosemary Woodhouse. She rented a room from Minnie and Roman Castevet, got impregnated with the Antichrist, and ended up being found dead on the street outside the Bramford.
Bythe end ofRosemary’s Baby, Terry’s cause of death is left curiously ambiguous, which has led to several fan theories about what might have happened to her. In the movie, Terry’s death is treated as an apparent suicide, having jumped from the Castevets’ seventh-floor apartment, butit has always been assumed that Minnie and Roman were involved in Terry’s death somehow.Apartment 7Afills in Terry’s unseen backstory, from her first meeting with the Castevets to her untimely death, so it finally confirms which one of those theories was correct, and which were wrong.
Apartment 7A Debunks The Theory That Roman & Minnie Castevet Killed Terry In Rosemary’s Baby
Apartment 7A Clears Up The Ambiguity Of Terry’s Death In Rosemary’s Baby
Since Terry’s cause of death is left vague inRosemary’s Baby, it has always been open to interpretation.The most common reading is that Minnie and Roman pushed her out of the window,or something along those lines, to make it look like a suicide, effectively clearing them of any suspicion. After the movie came out, this became a popular fan theory — so prevalent that it has practically been considered canon for over 50 years.
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Butthe ending ofApartment 7Aconfirms thatTerry did take her own life. After seemingly accepting her grim fate and performing a dance across Minnie and Roman’s apartment to entertain the Satanic followers, Terry unexpectedly leaps from the window and lands on a car parked on the street below. It shows that Terry would rather end her own life, and that of the unborn Antichrist, than give this Satanic cult what it wants. Sad as it may bealso gives Terry a bit more agency as a character, since she made the decision herself.
Roman & Minnie Are Still Responsible For Terry’s Death
When Terry confronts Minnie and Roman about their manipulative control, they reveal that they don’t intend to kill her. She’s pregnant with the Antichrist, so they need to keep her alive until at least the birth, and they’re hoping she’ll stick around to raise the kid after that, just like Rosemary eventually does. But if it wasn’t for the Castevets using her in their sinister Satanic plans inApartment 7A, then Terry wouldn’t have had to sacrifice herself to preventthe birth of the Antichrist. Minnie and Roman may not have wanted Terry dead, but they’re still responsible for it.
Apartment 7A
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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.
