The First Omen

After seeing "Exorcist: Believer" last year, I was worried this film would follow in its footsteps. Fortunately, it does not. Aside from a few pacing issues, this film is incredibly well acted, filled with terrifying imagery, and blood-soaked in body horror. Great prequel to the classic original. 8/10

I do not get the hype. The start of the movie I loved and felt it was setting up for an exciting movie. After that it went downhill and it was slow and boring and painful to watch. It picks back up towards the end but not enough to save the movie for me.Preferred Immaculate more.

A great movie but a “make-it-make-sense-yourself” prequel that should have just been its own thing that later could have led into an omen remake..

What I mean by that is that for anyone who has seen the original movie they’d know Damiens mother was a jackal and Brennan was present for his birth yada yada which can be explained that Brennan got the gender of the burned jackal confused or that he was trying to cover up for the fact that the mom survived with Clarita and the daughter but thats just kinda meh to have to do that thinking in your head when the established lore could’ve just worked better

It seems like they’re just setting it up to lead into a future sequel involving Clarita and the daughter (sister of Damien) but thats besides the point let me stop rambling

With all that out of the way I really enjoyed this movie — it isn’t a typical in your face with scares horror but neither was the original Omen which heavily leaned on the sadistic and twisted nature of how evil everything around the antichrist is and is why when I see some people leave reviews comparing it to something subpar like Immaculate which consisted of two gore scenes and the typical loud jump scares that have been beaten to death since Insidious I laugh at how ignorant to the movie they were

Its got some great visuals, they used good practical effects for the jackal and all the actors killed it for the most part

Highly recommended if you are a fan of the original Omen but prepare for the retcons/mental gymnastics you’ll have to do at the end for the tie in to make complete sense

Great addition to the franchise. So much gore. They really didn’t hold back.

Erm. I won’t watch again and wouldn’t really recommend. I think this is one of those acceptable background films you don’t concentrate on or really watch properly. The vast majority of the film is boring, quite uneventful and very slow. When something does happen, granted it is creepy or gruesome, but it really needed more frequency for those bits. Right at the end, and I mean maybe the last 15 minutes ish, it ramps up and it goes a bit mad. Everything seems to happen in this bit. What does happen is okay, but doesn’t make up for the rest of the film. Ralph Ineson was 100% not the right choice for his character though. His voice is obviously crazy deep, but it’s so off putting for the role he plays and it just doesn’t work. I also found, because he tries to speak quietly and gently, that some of his lines were difficult to understand and found myself trying to decipher what was said.

Could happen irl?