Let’s face it, most prequels are unnecessary and bad, answering questions we didn’t need answered while stripping the mystery out of our favorite stories. But horror might be the exception to the rule. In the last few years, horror prequels like Pearl, A Quiet Place: Day One, and The First Omen have all expanded the world of their source materials and made the original story all the more gripping — in most cases by offering a fresh look at a minor character from the original — and one recent horror prequel is taking that trend even further.
Streaming now on Paramount+, Apartment 7A is the Rogue One of horror prequels, cleverly redefining an all-time classic film. It offers an unflinching look at the characters who sacrificed themselves to make the first movie possible while bringing us all the way up to the opening moment of the original film. For Rogue One, that movie is Star Wars: A New Hope. For Apartment 7A it’s Rosemary’s Baby.
