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Paramount shared a trailer for Apartment 7A, the prequel to ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ featuring Julia Garner and directed by Natalie Erika James. Apartment 7A focuses on Terry Gionoffrio (Garner), an aspiring

Siddhant Adlakha of Variety finds the movie overall entertaining, though sometimes torn between its pre-ordained tragedy and the flourishes it wants to bring to the universe. Either way, the flick has a card up its sleeve, the critic writes:

It doesn't blow open or reinvent the "Rosemary's Baby" mythology, but it's a decent primer to attract younger audiences back to the 1968 classic film. Terry is played by the ever superb "Ozark" triple Emmy winner Julia Garner,

The Natalie Erika James-directed feature, which counts John Krasinski among its producers, follows a struggling dancer whose relationship with an older couple takes a twisted turn.

While it has its moments, Rosemary's Baby prequel Apartment 7A is never quite up to its aspirations and unforgivable misses its marks.

Like this year’s The First Omen, Apartment 7A is a prequel to an iconic horror movie – in this case, Satanic classic Rosemary’s Baby (1968) – that fleshes out, to some degree, the world of its predecessor-slash-successor.