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‘The First Omen’ Review: The Devil Is In The Details In Gory Nun’s Story Prequel To 1976 Original
A review of 'The First Omen' is hardly the "first" in the franchise but serves as a prequel to the 1976 classic by inventing a story of Damien's debut
So far the past few months have been quite ripe for the devil, incarnating with the boxoffice disappointment reboot, The Exorcist: Believer, the clever and fresh Late Night With The Devil which imagines a network talk show being possessed by Satan, Immaculate(which offered tickets for $6.66 in a box office promotion this week) with Sydney Sweeney as a nun caught up in a demonized immaculate conception, and now First Omen which shares some similarity with the latter in that it centers on a novitiate targeted for pregnancy and caught up in dark and mysterious circumstances surrounding several pregnancies in the Roman orphanage where she goes before becoming a nun.. Margaret ( Nell Tiger Free) is at the center of this particular universe, an American woman, once an orphan herself, who comes to Italy to begin her service to God, but gets caught up in circumstances that will eventually explain just how – and why – Damien would emerge. It is stylish, scary at times, and quite familiar as it takes on those in the catholic hierarchy who feel they are losing the younger generation and need to find a way to change the trajectory with an extreme exercise that becomes a dance with the devil.
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