In 1967 Ira Levin became famous thanks to *Rosemary’s Baby*, his bestselling novel about the biblical Antichrist being born and raised in modern-day New York. A few years later Levin wrote *The Boys from Brazil*, another novel with a similar theme of apocalyptic evil being groomed in the modern world, although more grounded in hard science and real history. Like *Rosemary’s Baby*, it was quickly adapted for the silv…