
Rosemary's Baby(1968)
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.


“If you believe, no explanation is necessary. If you don't believe, no explanation is possible.”
An upper-class Manhattan divorcee comes to believe that her brother is possessed by the spirit of a serial killer who beheaded young women in Spanish Harlem.

Shirley MacLaine
Norah Benson

Perry King
Joel Delaney

Michael Hordern
Justin
David Elliott
Peter Benson
Lisa Kohane
Carrie Benson

Barbara Trentham
Sherry
Lovelady Powell
Erika

Edmundo Rivera Álvarez
Don Pedro

Teodorina Bello
Mrs. Pérez
Robert Burr
Ted Benson
The Possession of Joel Delaney is a horror film released in 1972 exploring themes of new york city, based on novel or book, possession, satanism, class differences, mental illness. Directed by Waris Hussein, it stars Shirley MacLaine, Perry King, Michael Hordern. An upper-class Manhattan divorcee comes to believe that her brother is possessed by the spirit of a serial killer who beheaded young women in Spanish Harlem.
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