Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976) BOMB (out of 4) It's funny to think that one of the most popular films ever made has a sequel yet very few know about it and even lesser actually remember it. I'm really not sure what type of drugs were being passed around at Paramount when this film got the green light but let's hope those taking eventually recovered. The now adult Adrian (Stephen McHattie) is having growing pains as he keeps getting the urges to do evil things. Little does he know the truth behind his birth but soon his real dad, Satan of course, is getting ready to give him full control of his powers. This made-for-TV flick is bad, really bad but I guess that happens when you have Patty Duke taking over for Mia Farrow. This film has very little real connections to Polanski's classic so it's really unfair to compare the two as both films were obviously created for different reasons. Even when you don't compare this thing to the Polanski movie you're still left with something truly horrid and I still can't believe they even attempted something like this, although I'm going to guess THE OMEN being a big hit helped push this movie along. We have Ruth Gordon back in her role from the previous movie but Ray Milland takes over as her husband and we even have Broderick Crawford in a small role. It's a shame so many talented people put their name on this thing but I guess we can't blame them too much for trying to make a living. Director O'Steen, who edited the original movie, really doesn't have too much to work with as the screenplay offers up on bad scene after another and the level of dumbness just grows worse and worse as the movie goes along. The entire idea of this guy being split to do good or evil is nothing original and the way it plays out here is just extremely lame and boring. Within fifteen-minutes I started to grow tired and the bad pacing didn't help but next eighty-minutes. The screenplay follows one cliché after another and one really has to ask what any of it was suppose to mean. The film changes small items that were put in place by the first film but the entire third act is just mind-blowingly stupid. The performances really aren't anything better as both Gordon and Milland seem bored out of their minds and McHattie just has nothing in the lead. Even worse is Duke who really stinks up the scenes she's in as she overacts something terrible. This film has slipped into obscurity and I'm sure it will never be rescued from it, which is understandable. I would like to hear or read something as to what the producer's were thinking when they made this thing but I'm sure everyone connected to this thing would rather just pretend it never happened.

I usually seek to find good in movies, even the bad ones.Unfortunately this movie is one where I fail miserably-and the fact that there's barely one positive review on this board shows many IMDb reviewers share my pain.I don't usually watch sequels but I just had to see this since I love "Rosemary's Baby" so much. What a mistake that was. It simply reaffirms my belief in the fact that most sequels are lousy-though thankfully, very few are as bad as this. In fact in my mind this isn't even really a sequel, it's a satire on how bad a sequel can be. Movie recommended very highly for not viewing-at any time-ever.

You might want to see this tepid movie of the week out of morbid curiosity, but please, don't go out of your way. First off, Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby didn't need a sequel--the haunting, ambiguous ending is supremely creepy and leaves you with something to think about. And if it did need a sequel, it certainly didn't need one as poor as this. Note the numerous inconsistencies with the original: If Adrian/Andrew was born in 1966, why is he in his twenties by 1976? Why is the Manhattan apartment building now sitting on a huge lawn? Minnie and Roman are present, but where are the other members of the original coven? And why have they now decided to refer to the coven as "the tribe"?And of course, a talented cast is entirely wasted. Ruth Gordon, who won an Oscar as Minnie in the original, is reduced to a braying cartoon character. A semi-recreation of the Satainic rape scene is really lame. This may have been made to cash in on The Omen, as it bears more resemblance to that film than it does to Rosemary's Baby. If you want to see better execution of a similar theme, see The Devil's Daughter (1972). Cult film reviewer Michael Weldon summed up this disaster with the sarcastic question, "How about a TV sequel to Repulsion, too?" Indeed.

If you thought "ROSEMARY'S BABY" was bad, this one isn't much better. Easily one of the worst movies ever made, like it's lame predecessor, it goes nowhere fast. Rating: 1/2* out of *****