![]() ![]() the “number of the beast,” as predicted in the New Testament’s Book of Revelation. He plopped every would-be parent’s feelings of anxiety atop an imminent historical moment: June 1966, or 666-a.k.a. In 1965, struggling as always for his next big idea, Levin looked no further than his pregnant wife in their New York apartment. Like all good scary stories, this one starts out very ordinary. Did Levin’s tale of lapsed-Christian Rosemary, who unknowingly carries and births the devil in return for her actor husband’s stage success, really jinx all those who got near it? And if so, why did Levin himself stay so seemingly unscathed? But with every hit came a flop, and success always seemed to come with a cost-a theme rooted deeply in all his best works, especially Rosemary’s Baby.Ī hit novel turned iconic film, Rosemary’s Baby was a massive success that, according to half a century of pop-culture lore, is also cursed. At 21, he’d sold two TV scripts to NBC soon after, a Broadway play garnered a Tony nod and his first novel-in which a ruthless young man murders his pregnant lover-won the 1954 Edgar Award. ![]() Dismantling the system of this socioeconomic experiment unravels through David Desola and Pedro Rivero's knotty, exposition-packed script.In 1967, Ira Levin was already, by most anyone’s standards, a very, very successful writer. Those on the top get first dibs on a giant platform of food that descends from the ceiling everyday those on the bottom get the scraps-or nothing at all. Instead of a train, The Platform takes place in a prison-like structure called the "Vertical Self-Management Center" where inmates live two to a floor. It's difficult to watch The Platform, a cannibalistic prison freak-out from Spain, and not imagine a producer sitting in a conference room or a coffee shop and musing, "What if Snowpiercer but vertical?" The debut feature from Spanish filmmaker Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia boasts an appealing high-concept premise, an oddly affable leading man in actor Iván Massagué, and a series of brutal twists that should intrigue anyone currently watching the news and thinking about the possible end game of rampant inequality. ![]()
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