Mediocre TV movie is not
quite as awful as its reputation, but it’s nothing special either. What’s unfortunate
about it is not that it fails to live up to Polanski’s original classic – (what
film could?) – but that it bothers being a sequel at all. The elements are interesting enough, and
removed from the Polanski film enough, to warrant a whole separate film. But the prospect of a sequel is always preferable
in Hollywood to an original work. No one
from the original, save a highly distracted Ruth Gordon, is back in their
various roles; which makes it all the sillier that the characters return at all.
Little Andrew (aka Adrian), played by
Stephen McHattie, is all grown up and at approximately 30 is some sort of rock
star. Inexplicably, the evil coven leaders Minnie and Roman Castavet (Gordon
and Ray Milland) don’t appear to have aged much at all. The power of witchcraft,
or mere lazy writing? You'd imagine that
if they could keep themselves from aging they might’ve started doing so
sometime before their 80s… like maybe their 20s? Except for veterans Milland and Gordon and
star McHattie, the cast is pretty lousy, especially Patty Duke as a perpetually
hysterical Rosemary Woodhouse. Directed
by Sam O'Steen for no apparent reason than because he was (get this) the editor
of Polanski's Rosemary's Baby.
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