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on 'rosemary's baby' ONE CRACKED FACT | [View in Browser]( [03142022-header](www.cracked.com/article_32770_nasa-sent-a-lightsaber-into-space.html?newsletter-cat=science?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=15032022) ['Rosemary's Baby' Was Rated C For Condemned By The Catholic Church]( By: [RM Avatar] [Ryan Menezes]( • March 15, 2022 [03152022](www.cracked.com/article_32922_rosemarys-baby-was-rated-c-for-condemned-by-the-catholic-church.html?newsletter-cat=movies-tv?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=15032022) We're looking at a bunch of famous plot twists this week. It's the last thing anyone would expect! Many movie twists are some variation on the same idea: "None of this was real." It was all a dream, we learn in the end. Or, the main character's insane and just imagined the whole thing. The twist occasionally works well but otherwise deeply frustrates viewers, who end the story wondering what the point was. Then came Rosemary's Baby, which pulled off a double twist. Rosemary appears to have a terrifying dream, or might be losing her mind, but no—in the end, it was all real, and even more scary than she feared. This double twist would itself become a bit of a cliché in the years to come (now, when the heroine doubts her sanity when the movie's far from done, you know she's sane and her earlier fears were right). But if you were around in 1968, you might have watched Rosemary's Baby and been surprised. Unless you were an obedient Catholic, in which case you avoided the film, as it was forbidden. At the time, an organization called the Catholic Legion of Decency issued guidance on which movies Catholics could watch. If the Legion rated a movie "A," that meant it was fine. "B" meant that they objected to the movie, though only in part. Rosemary's Baby received the harshest rating, "C," which meant it was "condemned." Reading this now in the 21st century, you might imagine that this was one group of nutters, while the Pope in Rome instead said, "Why are you worrying about movies? Jesus had but one worldly commandment: Be excellent to each other." Actually, the Pope at the time told church leaders that they must review movies to guide the flock morally , and he personally laid out the three-tier rating system. Though a Cincinnati bishop started the Catholic Legion of Decency on his own in 1934, the Pope issued an encyclical in 1957 formalizing the rating system, advising all Catholics to avoid immoral films, and forbidding Catholic movie projectionists from screening condemned films. Initially, mainly foreign films got the C rating, but the Legion went on to condemn movies many of you have seen, from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. They rejected Rosemary's Baby for "mockery of religious persons and practices." Though, the religious people getting mocked were Satan worshippers. Hey, what if the Legion was secretly working for Satan all along? The proof was right in their name, how did we miss this? For more on that son of the devil, check out: - [Rosemary's Baby Explores How Women Are Conditioned To Doubt Themselves]( - [9 Awful Lessons Horror Movies Teach Parents]( - [Rosemary's Baby Grew Up Super Lame]( Top image: Pictures [Daily Digest]( [15 On-Screen And Behind-the-Scenes Tales Of Movie Farts]( [By Andres Diplotti / March 15th, 2022]( [4 Plot Twists That Were Originally Way Different]( [By Maxwell Yezpitelok / March 15th, 2022]( [15 Comedians Speak Out On Mental Health And Life]( [By Jay L'Ecuyer / March 14th, 2022]( [15 Nuggets of Knowledge To Keep In Your Back Pocket]( [By JhallComics / March 14th, 2022]( [We Were Idiots For Thinking Tom Brady Would Ever Retire]( [By Eli Yudin / March 14th, 2022]( [READ MORE]( [fb]( [tw]( [yt]( [flipboard]( [insta png]( [tiktok png]( [ARTICLES]( | [PICTOFACTS]( | [Videos]( Literally media Ltd. 190 West St, Suite 17B, Brooklyn NY 11222 COPYRIGHT © 2005-2021 Cracked is published by Literally media Ltd. [Unsubscribe](