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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 83% of 193 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7/10. The website's consensus reads: "Frequently frightening even as it plays within the confines of a nearly 50-year-old film series, this prequel is The First Omen of a bright future for the franchise in quite some time."
In the first “Omen” movie, the infant Antichrist, Damien — born at 6 a.m. on the sixth day of the sixth month — is given to an American diplomat and his wife to be raised as their own.
“The First Omen” underwent some trims involving graphic footage of childbirth, of a sort, filmed forthrightly by director Stevenson but in ways, at least as recut to avoid an NC-17 rating ...
The First Omen is really only held back by the fact it’s been ordained as a prequel. It’s set in 1971, and is forced to retcon a crucial revelation from the original film in order to rewrite ...
The Omen is a media franchise, centering on a series of supernatural horror films, which began in 1976.The series centers on Damien Thorn, a child born of Satan and given to Robert and Katherine Thorn as a child.
In exclusive interviews shared with ET, writer-director Arkasha Stevenson and the movie's stars open up about what fans can expect from the film, which serves as an origin story to 1976's The Omen.
In The First Omen, Damien was revealed to have been conceived as the result of experiments performed by a cult dedicated to turning the world back towards Christianity (specifically Catholicism) by creating the Antichrist to inspire religious fear-mongering. Their first attempt is to use a jackal (a supposed conduit for Satan) to impregnate ...
Directed with visual flair by Arkasha Stevenson, the prequel to the 1976 horror sensation is somewhat diminished by a forgone conclusion, but gets the job done.