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Hix Nix Stix Pix - Rosemary's Baby

Mike O'Meara, Robb Spewak, Josh Sroka

October 11, 2025 · 53 min

This week on Hix Nix Stix Pix, Josh and Robb invite you into the unsettling world of Rosemary’s Baby — and honestly, one of them might be part of a cult now. Josh can’t decide if the movie is terrifying or just…

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This week on Hix Nix Stix Pix, Josh and Robb invite you into the unsettling world of Rosemary’s Baby — and honestly, one of them might be part of a cult now. Josh can’t decide if the movie is terrifying or just a really weird way to make love, while Robb keeps insisting the real horror is the neighbors. They break down Mia Farrow’s haircut, devilish deals, and how to politely decline when your building starts worshipping Satan. It’s paranoia, pregnancy, and plenty of popcorn on this week’s spooky classic!

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[SPEAKER_01]: Michael Mera, Radio Entertainment.

[SPEAKER_01]: Hicks, Nicks, sticks, picks.

[SPEAKER_01]: A podcast about Rob's movies with your hosts, Rob's Buak and Josh Sroka.

[SPEAKER_01]: And now, ladies and gentlemen, let the show begin.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, welcome back to episode five.

[SPEAKER_02]: I see welcome back, but I I'm just assuming that they were with us and they've come back So I'll just have it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, there's four other for you to check out go grab them This is Hicks and X sticks picks.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm Rob Spuack along with Josh Sroker We're five in this one more than a month.

[SPEAKER_02]: Did you think we would last this many?

[SPEAKER_03]: I did, but I think that people outside of you and I thought, yeah, and after two episodes.

[SPEAKER_02]: And Robert, my son, he's even come around on the title.

[SPEAKER_02]: He hated the title and he likes it now, so it's okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: I love the title.

[SPEAKER_03]: I did not care for the title at the beginning, but now I think it's great, I love it.

[SPEAKER_02]: I like when we're talking like the serious business of doing the podcast and you just refer to it as Hicks Knicks.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, yeah, because you're being a cool guy is too hard to say it's not that it's hard to say it's too long to say and the abbreviations H and S P That doesn't look good either.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I just call it HX next or I think that's pretty good and this week is an exciting episode because we are in color.

[SPEAKER_02]: We were black and white last week.

[SPEAKER_02]: We're color this week and you know you're in for a treat because I am wearing

[SPEAKER_02]: My Turner Classic Movies T-shirt.

[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you, because this is truly a classic movie.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, as we continue to celebrate season.

[SPEAKER_03]: Spooky season, it's a new element.

[SPEAKER_02]: Every time we say Spooky season.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, oh.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I am loving Spooky season, because I have avoided so many horror movies for my entire life.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: There's types of horror movies I love.

[SPEAKER_03]: like the the late 90s slash or style like the late 90s slash or style like the late 90s style.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, going back to the 80s then when you have some of these that like inspired scream like Friday the 13th or Halloween.

[SPEAKER_03]: I have a thing now.

[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: Like I saw the late 90s early 2000s.

[SPEAKER_03]: genres of horror movies, and that's about it.

[SPEAKER_03]: I've avoided so many horror movies over the years.

[SPEAKER_02]: The screen, the scream of hers, I like very much.

[SPEAKER_02]: I like the first screen movies, and then I liked, they remade the screen movies, and I liked those too.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not big on slasher films, I've seen them, but that's not my go-to for scary, because I think you can only do a jump scare so many times.

[SPEAKER_03]: I enjoy, and then you know what, and this falls right into Rosemar's,

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: Of those modern horror movies, I love the final destination movies, because it's full slow build suspense.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: And that's kind of how I felt with Rosemary's Baby.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, let's discuss a little bit about this movie, Rosemary's Baby 1968 from Paramount Pictures.

[SPEAKER_02]: directed by Roman Polanski, great director, bad guy, based on a book by Ira Levin, and it is a William Castle production.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'll get into William Castle a little bit as we go after this.

[SPEAKER_02]: But long time listeners of T.M.

[SPEAKER_02]: OS will know who William Castle is because he's been referenced many times.

[SPEAKER_02]: In the movie, we open with a beautiful sweeping shot of New York City, and we see a beautiful old school apartment building, looks to be right by Central Park, which it is.

[SPEAKER_02]: And Guy and Rosemary Woodhouse, who are John Casavetti's and Mia Farrow, are apartment shopping.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think they're newly wedged, and they're shown a great, but creepy apartment by a live-shook junior, or in this movie's just a live-shook cook.

[SPEAKER_02]: Um, he's an amazing actor.

[SPEAKER_02]: He goes back to, he worked with Humphrey Bogart.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's worked, uh, he works steady through his entire life, but he's a great old school actor.

[SPEAKER_02]: So they see this apartment and it's got a secret closet.

[SPEAKER_02]: And that's sort of something they don't pay attention to, but it's mentioned.

[SPEAKER_01]: Michael Mera, Radio Entertainment. [SPEAKER_01]: Hicks, Nicks, sticks, picks. [SPEAKER_01]: A podcast about Rob's movies with your hosts, Rob's Buak and Josh Sroka. [SPEAKER_01]: And now, ladies and gentlemen, let the show begin. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, welcome back to episode five. [SPEAKER_02]: I see welcome back, but I I'm just assuming that they were with us and they've come back So I'll just have it. [SPEAKER_03]: Welcome. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, there's four other for you to check out go grab them This is Hicks and X sticks picks. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm Rob Spuack along with Josh Sroker We're five in this one more than a month. [SPEAKER_02]: Did you think we would last this many? [SPEAKER_03]: I did, but I think that people outside of you and I thought, yeah, and after two episodes. [SPEAKER_02]: And Robert, my son, he's even come around on the title. [SPEAKER_02]: He hated the title and he likes it now, so it's okay. [SPEAKER_03]: I love the title. [SPEAKER_03]: I did not care for the title at the beginning, but now I think it's great, I love it. [SPEAKER_02]: I like when we're talking like the serious business of doing the podcast and you just refer to it as Hicks Knicks. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, yeah, because you're being a cool guy is too hard to say it's not that it's hard to say it's too long to say and the abbreviations H and S P That doesn't look good either. [SPEAKER_02]: So I just call it HX next or I think that's pretty good and this week is an exciting episode because we are in color. [SPEAKER_02]: We were black and white last week. [SPEAKER_02]: We're color this week and you know you're in for a treat because I am wearing [SPEAKER_02]: My Turner Classic Movies T-shirt. [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you, because this is truly a classic movie. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, as we continue to celebrate season. [SPEAKER_03]: Spooky season, it's a new element. [SPEAKER_02]: Every time we say Spooky season. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, oh. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, I am loving Spooky season, because I have avoided so many horror movies for my entire life. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: There's types of horror movies I love. [SPEAKER_03]: like the the late 90s slash or style like the late 90s slash or style like the late 90s style. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, going back to the 80s then when you have some of these that like inspired scream like Friday the 13th or Halloween. [SPEAKER_03]: I have a thing now. [SPEAKER_03]: Wow. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: Like I saw the late 90s early 2000s. [SPEAKER_03]: genres of horror movies, and that's about it. [SPEAKER_03]: I've avoided so many horror movies over the years. [SPEAKER_02]: The screen, the scream of hers, I like very much. [SPEAKER_02]: I like the first screen movies, and then I liked, they remade the screen movies, and I liked those too. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not big on slasher films, I've seen them, but that's not my go-to for scary, because I think you can only do a jump scare so many times. [SPEAKER_03]: I enjoy, and then you know what, and this falls right into Rosemar's, [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: Of those modern horror movies, I love the final destination movies, because it's full slow build suspense. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: And that's kind of how I felt with Rosemary's Baby. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, let's discuss a little bit about this movie, Rosemary's Baby 1968 from Paramount Pictures. [SPEAKER_02]: directed by Roman Polanski, great director, bad guy, based on a book by Ira Levin, and it is a William Castle production. [SPEAKER_02]: I'll get into William Castle a little bit as we go after this. [SPEAKER_02]: But long time listeners of T.M. [SPEAKER_02]: OS will know who William Castle is because he's been referenced many times. [SPEAKER_02]: In the movie, we open with a beautiful sweeping shot of New York City, and we see a beautiful old school apartment building, looks to be right by Central Park, which it is. [SPEAKER_02]: And Guy and Rosemary Woodhouse, who are John Casavetti's and Mia Farrow, are apartment shopping. [SPEAKER_02]: I think they're newly wedged, and they're shown a great, but creepy apartment by a live-shook junior, or in this movie's just a live-shook cook. [SPEAKER_02]: Um, he's an amazing actor. [SPEAKER_02]: He goes back to, he worked with Humphrey Bogart. [SPEAKER_02]: He's worked, uh, he works steady through his entire life, but he's a great old school actor. [SPEAKER_02]: So they see this apartment and it's got a secret closet. [SPEAKER_02]: And that's sort of something they don't pay attention to, but it's mentioned. [SPEAKER_03]: No, but it's really trendy right now on TikTok that'd be like I never knew this door was in my basement. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, people do that. [SPEAKER_02]: And this is this is hidden behind a huge piece of furniture. [SPEAKER_02]: They call it a secretary, but I think actually I'm the chest of drawers. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I would give it our more. [SPEAKER_02]: And they also find out that their place that they're moving into is called the Bramford. [SPEAKER_02]: And it has an evil past. [SPEAKER_02]: There's been cannibalism, there's been murders, and they find this out from their friend Huch, who was played by Mori 7's, and this is, you won't know this, but in the 1966 Batman, Mori 7's played one of the worst villains on Batman, he was the puzzler. [SPEAKER_03]: I can't believe that's the first guy they get with for a TV show for a movie. [SPEAKER_02]: But, well, no, I mean, he's a better actor than he was as the puzzler, but what happened? [SPEAKER_02]: I think what happened with that, if I'm not mistaken, they had written a script for the ridler, and they were in contract trouble with Frank Burrish and so they rewrote it as the puzzler. [SPEAKER_02]: But despite these warnings, they move in anyway, and they have sex, which I know you mentioned, [SPEAKER_02]: And down in the laundry room of the Bramford, Rosemary meets another person who lives there. [SPEAKER_02]: Her name is Terry, and they have a nice conversation down in the laundry room. [SPEAKER_02]: And they talk, and this seems like Rosemary's finally made a friend, except it doesn't last very long. [SPEAKER_02]: In the laundry room, Terry reveals that she's living with an old couple in the building named the cast of it. [SPEAKER_02]: and they're sort of like a parent figures to them, but soon their after Terry is found dead of an apparent suicide outside of the Bramford and while everyone is gathered around to see her body that's when we actually meet the cast events and they're named where we can see the body. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we do. [SPEAKER_02]: They do show it. [SPEAKER_02]: They do. [SPEAKER_02]: Many in Roman that Sidney Blackmer and a Academy award winning nod to Ruth Gordon, who won best supporting for this movie, and they sort of strike up a conversation, and they decide to have dinner with the older couple, and Guy seems really taken with them. [SPEAKER_02]: Even though Rosemary's a little put off, and to thank Rosemary for saying nice things about them to the police when they found the murdered body, they give Rosemary a charm. [SPEAKER_02]: that has a weird smelling herb in it called tennis, but it's identical to a charm that Terry was wearing. [SPEAKER_02]: Very sort of peculiar. [SPEAKER_02]: Now, Guy is an actor. [SPEAKER_02]: That's his job. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no. [SPEAKER_02]: Most of that. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: They told her that it was from Terry. [SPEAKER_03]: The term they gave her was because she knew Trit Terry. [SPEAKER_02]: Right, and she had left it before she knew it. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I missed that detail. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry about that. [SPEAKER_03]: I believe she was wearing it when she jumped. [SPEAKER_03]: They took it off her body and got her back from her and then proceeded to pass it on. [SPEAKER_02]: It's a cool necklace, it's like a globe, like maybe a sterling silver globe that had the tennis route in it. [SPEAKER_02]: We find out Guy is an actor and he's mostly making a living by doing ads for Yamaha motorcycles. [SPEAKER_02]: But out of the blue, after a bad or audition, Guy gets a call that the actor that he wanted the role of the actor that got cast is struck blind and can't do the play. [SPEAKER_03]: It instantly reminded me of the natural where it's like suddenly oh, he ran into a wall and killed himself It's the same thing where it's like how do we make this as seamless and as easy as possible? [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, he goes blind So this comes back later Meanwhile, they have decided to have a baby the woodhouses Josh are going to have a baby and on the night they set aside for romance Many cast of Ed shows up [SPEAKER_02]: with chocolate mousse, chocolate mouses. [SPEAKER_02]: She calls it for a dessert. [SPEAKER_02]: And if you watch very carefully, they have different garnish on the top of the chocolate mousse to make sure they're not confused. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_03]: So you know which one is chalky? [SPEAKER_02]: The chalk precisely. [SPEAKER_02]: So they give it to them and they eat it. [SPEAKER_02]: And Guy loves it. [SPEAKER_02]: And Rosemary says it does taste chalky. [SPEAKER_02]: There's a chalky aftertaste. [SPEAKER_02]: But she still eats a few good bites and then throws it away. [SPEAKER_02]: After that, she passes out. [SPEAKER_02]: Like almost immediately, she passes out. [SPEAKER_02]: And the guy blamed alcohol, apparently she had champagne and wine, or something like the hard cocktail and wine. [SPEAKER_02]: And she has this weird semi-conscious dream, where there's a whole bunch of creepy people around her, and among the people there is guy. [SPEAKER_02]: And this is a dream sort of, I guess, and we don't really know if it's a dream yet. [SPEAKER_03]: And he's part of it's a dream because she's on a boat off a boat in a room. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but it results in her being raped by a guy with very scary eyes and when she comes to. [SPEAKER_02]: And very hands and hairy hands and when she comes to, [SPEAKER_02]: she says this happening says no, no, no, no, that must have been some sort of hallucination scratches scratches and then he sees she sees the scratches and he says, oh, yeah, after you passed out, we had sex last night. [SPEAKER_02]: By the way, not okay, but that's a problem. [SPEAKER_02]: That's a problem. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's like this is a less important rape. [SPEAKER_02]: This is not as bad as the first rape, but still at this point, you got the point here that guy is really self-centered. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, that's just one thing about him that he likes to do things for him. [SPEAKER_02]: So he says, yes, we made love last night. [SPEAKER_02]: And so she goes to see the OBGYN who is Charles Groden as Dr. Hill, I think, and it's Charles Groden's motion picture debut. [SPEAKER_02]: And she is indeed pregnant. [SPEAKER_02]: They announced it to the cast of that. [SPEAKER_02]: So they celebrate by drinking wine. [SPEAKER_02]: Don't give wine to a pregnant woman. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, they don't put in no this patch, man. [SPEAKER_03]: I guess. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but do you think she was telling everyone? [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we were decided we wanted to have kids and I got raped so now I'm pregnant. [SPEAKER_02]: I was twice raped and now I'm pregnant, exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: Um, the cast ofettes who are very connected in New York know the best doctor in New York City, the best OB. [SPEAKER_02]: It's a doctor's sapperstein. [SPEAKER_02]: and they get her in to see him and he goes through his recommendations for health including like a smoothie that is made for rosemary every day instead of vitamins. [SPEAKER_02]: And these are made by the cast of that's these smoothies. [SPEAKER_02]: Now I don't know if it's the smoothies that are do

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