Apartment 7A (2024) review

This "prequel" to Rosemary's Baby is set in New York City in 1965 and involves dancer Terry Gionoffrio (Julia Garner) seriously injuring her foot during a production of Kiss Me, Kate, struggling to find employment (she can't pay her part of the rent) and then, by chance, offered a free apartment by deceptively kind couple Minnie (Dianne Wiest) and Alan (Jim Sturgess) where she experiences hallucinations and finds herself impregnated by the Prince of Darkness.  Anyone who's seen the original Polanski movie (or read the novel by Ira Levin) should be familiar with the premise already, and director James is too focused on the allegorical aspect of a woman raped and forced to bring the child to term - as of this writing, the Confederacy is creepily obsessed with controlling women's reproduction (currently, several Southern states have outright banned abortion) - to even attempt to be frightening or having Garner do anything but whimper or flutter her eyelids.  The final scene suggests the only "way out" for the fairer sex is to hurl themselves out of a window (and onto a parked car) which ends it on a defeatist note: why not slit the throats of your oppressors before you take that final plunge?