The Cherry Hill Chainsaw Massacre

"I came here for one reason: to make something of myself. To be on stage. To see my name in big lights. But dreams don't always come true." These are the achingly relatable and sobering words of Terry Gionoffrio, the young protagonist of Natalie Erika James' sophomore directorial outing, Apartment 7A . You may recall Terry as the ill-fated recovering drug addict first introduced in Roman Polanski's 1968 psychological supernatural horror classic, Rosemary's Baby . Originally portrayed by Angela Dorian, Terry was doing her laundry in the basement of the eerie "Black Bramford" New York City apartment building at the same time as newly arrived tenant Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow). The two ladies engaged in a friendly conversation in which Terry divulged that she was living across the hall from Rosemary with an elderly married couple, the eccentric but disarmingly kind and giving Castevets, who picked Terry up off the sidewalk and opened their door to h...

Pregnancy. It can be a blessing, a nightmare, or something in-between. Not that I can attest to the reality of the situation given that I'm a man, but living in a society where women are naturally expected to procreate and feel grateful for the opportunity to bring a unique, whole life into existence, I can only imagine the immense pressure and conflicted emotions faced by every woman as soon as they learn they're with child. As if that wasn't terrifying enough, imagine being a young, expectant mother who just moved into a new apartment with your husband and realizing that your excessively friendly neighbors are part of a plot to get you impregnated by the Devil so that you can give birth to his only living son. Oh, and by the way, your own husband pimped you out to said Devil for the sake of advancing his career.  A quick word of caution for any woman either trying to have a baby or already in the process, I would avoid watching Rosemary's Baby until after you've ...