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The Omen

April 2024

  • Nell Tiger Free and Nicole Sorace looking skywards.

    The First Omen review – horror prequel has its creepy moments

    Director Arkasha Stevenson can’t match the scares of the 1976 classic, but her decent chiller can still make the skin crawl
  • Two possessed girls with scarred faces and creepy eyes stare up at the camera as they sit back to back, their heads resting on each others' shoulders.

    ‘Good and evil are at war, and the battlefield is the female body’: how Satanic horror has returned to haunt the age of Trump

    The devil and his minions crop up in a rash of new horror films, from Deliver Us and Immaculate to reboots of The Exorcist and The Omen. What does this tell us about our current anxieties?
  • THE FIRST OMEN<br>Nell Tiger Free as Margaret and Nicole Sorace as Carlita in 20th Century Studios' THE FIRST OMEN. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2024 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.

    The First Omen review – stylish horror prequel is damned by its franchise

    This 70s-set prelude to the classic satanic horror has flair but struggles with the weight and familiarity of what came before

February 2024

  • Deliver Us film still

    Deliver Us review – delirious baby antichrist horror smothered in surreal visions

    A nun pregnant with a devil twin! A murderous one-eyed priest! This film had all the right elements, but the plot just drags on

October 2023

  • Final Destination, The Omen, The Mummy, Suspiria, and It Follows.

    ‘Viscerally terrifying’: writers on their scariest movie moments ever

    For Halloween, Guardian writers have looked back at their biggest movie nightmares, from The Omen to It Follows

25 July 2022

  • Peter Bradshaw

    David Warner: a fiercely charismatic actor who raised the IQ of his movies

    Peter Bradshaw
    From Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment to one of movie history’s most shocking death scenes, Warner’s classical training, style and fine voice gave character to any role
  • David Warner in King Lear in Chichester in 2005.

    David Warner: a life in pictures

    The British actor has died at the age of 80. His long career spanned Shakespeare on stage to Star Trek on screen – here we look back at the highlights
  • David Warner, actor

    Veteran British actor David Warner, star of The Omen and Tron, dies aged 80

    The stage and screen veteran’s multifaceted career included roles in Titanic, Time Bandits and Straw Dogs, as well as a renowned Hamlet for the RSC

July 2021

  • Richard Donner - 1992<br>Editorial use only. No book cover usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Columbia/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (5869772c) Richard Donner Richard Donner - 1992 Columbia On/Off Set Radio Flyer

    Richard Donner obituary

  • Peter Bradshaw

    Film blog
    Richard Donner, master of macho blockbusters with a human touch

    Peter Bradshaw

January 2017

  • Harvey Spencer Stephens

    Actor who played The Omen's Damien sentenced on Friday 13th for road rage

    Harvey Spencer Stephens, 46, handed suspended prison term after punching two cyclists in confrontation last year

September 2016

  • Heather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project

    Bad omens: Blair Witch and the trouble with the horror franchise revival

    Reboots are big business: The Omen, The Ring and Carrie have all been adapted by studios keen to cash in. But the new sequel to The Blair Witch Project will struggle to replicate the impact of the original

April 2016

  • Harvey Spencer Stephens as Damien in the original film.

    Devil's early work: The Omen prequel heading to the big screen

    The First Omen will explore events before Damien’s birth and marks another attempt to revive the franchise following remake, TV show and three sequels
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