Style Guide: Theoretical Rosemary’s Baby 2024
Rosemary and Guy in 2024 Manhattan. Can you believe this Renaissance Revival apartment? On a stage actor’s salary no less. Surely Rosemary must have some passive income source. And what about those charming older neighbors next door? That Minnie sure is a kook, but so sweet.
And as it turns out there's a prequel series due out on Paramount+.
Themes: doomy, gloomy, witchy, hex-the-patriarchy, hallucinatory, claustrophobic.
Death Valley Girls "Abre Camino"
Opening the way with this ritual.
Siouxsie "Melt"
Suitably sensual and stifling for the after-effects of Minnie's chocolate mousse
King Woman "Entwined"
Haunting and powerful, although the quieter parts are probably more suitable.
Chelsea Wolfe "Unseen World"
Ethereal and slightly paranoiac
The Soft Moon "Black Sabbath"
This is an occult film, afterall. This is an excellent contemporary update from a Sacred Bones collection of Black Sabbath covers.
LA Vampires Meets Zola Jesus "Bone Is Bloodstone"
Equal parts hallucinatory and claustrophobic.
Sonic Youth "Hallowe'en"
Quietly seductive but also ominous, ritualistic. Perfect for Rosemary and Guy's "special night".
Meg Baird "Ashes, Ashes"
Might be risking crossing the stream here by also including Meg Baird *and* a Heron Oblivion track, but I think this song lends a somberness initially and then etherealness to the selections. Also ties in a bit with the Thom Yorke track.
Dean & Britta "Knives from Bavaria"
Slinky and a little bit eerie. Bonus: the la la la's echo Krysztof Komeda's lullabye from the original film.
Heron Oblivion "Rama"
Solid slow tempo psych voyage to set a slightly dark but ethereal feel and majestic build.
SPELLING "Afterlife"
Need to have a little lightness to contrast the darkness.
Worm Ouroboros "(Was It) The Cruelest Thing"
Mournful and elegiac, for when Rosemary begins to understand what might be happening.
Thom Yorke "Olgas Destruction (Volk Tape)"
Reference for scoring. Setting an ominous air.
Dean Hurley "Night Electricity Theme"
Reference for scoring. Setting an ambient foreboding tone.
The Last Dinner Party "Feminine Urge"
Theatrical and steamy, possibly suitable for the closing credits.
Anton Lavey "Satan Takes a Holiday"
An ironic comic turn for interactions with Minnie and Laura-Louise