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In order to delve into the big Damien reveal though, we need to go into some major spoilers, so look away now if you haven't seen The First Omen yet. As in The Omen, it's Father Brennan (Ralph ...
Spoiler alert! We're discussing important plot points and the ending of “The First Omen” (in theaters now), so beware if you haven’t seen it yet. How does one birth the Antichrist, anyway?
Towards the end of Richard Donner's 1976 horror classic The Omen, Robert Thorn discovers that his son Damien is the ...
But in five short years, The Omen had cemented a legacy within pop culture. The Antichrist, the number of the beast (666) and even the name “Damien” became fixtures in our lexicon. The Omen ...
In “The First Omen,” Damien’s mom isn’t actually a jackal, but young would-be nun Margaret (Nell Tiger Free) who is part of a long line of experiments — done by some of the Catholic ...
In Arkasha Stevenson’s hands, it can take us on a pretty fun ride. “The First Omen” is about everything before Damien (a.k.a. the Antichrist incarnate), following Margaret (Nell Tiger Free ...
There is no confusion. Damien was born of a female jackal who mated with Satan. So for The First Omen’s twist to occur—where it’s revealed Margaret is made the unwilling mother of the ...
Not exactly. Though Damien, the direct sequel to The Omen, picks up with the antichrist kiddo approaching adolescence as the moneyed adopted son of Richard Thorn (William Holden), only part of its ...