The Omen
The Omen is a 1976 film from the USA and the UK, directed by Richard Donner, running 106 minutes. reelscum files it under occult & satanic panic.
- Year
- 1976 · 1970s films
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Director
- Richard Donner
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- canon (6/100)
- Also known as
- Omen I · Omen I: The Antichrist · Omen I: The Birthmark · The Antichrist · The Birthmark
Defined in the glossary: Occult & satanic panic
Studio horror with a Goldsmith choir and four very memorable deaths.
Studio horror at its most polished. A diplomat's son may be the Antichrist, the evidence mounts through a series of elaborate deaths, and Jerry Goldsmith's Latin choir won an Oscar for making the whole thing feel damned.
It is the respectable end of the occult cycle, expensive and restrained where the imitators were cheap and lurid, and the set-piece deaths, the nanny, the pane of glass, are staged with real craft. Gregory Peck lends it a gravity it might not otherwise earn.
Handsome, effective, and the template for prestige horror.
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