#sharrontate

In August of 1969, Sharon Tate, Roman Polanksi's wife, was brutally and infamously murdered by Charles Manson's cult followers. Tate was pregnant at the time, and  two weeks from giving birth. The murders were savage, demonic and alluded to a belief in devil worship and the occult. 

A year previously, In June of 1968 Roman Polanski directed Rosemary's Baby, a horror film in which a young woman [played brilliantly by Mia Farrow] is raped and impregnated by the occult in order to give birth to Satans child. 

The film is a masterpiece, expertly acted, brilliantly shot and uses suspense and surrealism rather than blood and gore to evoke fear. However, watched with the benefit of hindsight the film becomes even more terrifying as we are all grimly aware that, tragically, life eventually came to intimate art and the horrors Polanski committed to film came to be his reality. Watch below: