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Behold, an Actually Good Omen Movie
It’s also, not unlike the very-similar Immaculate, surprisingly topical, reflecting back societal fears in the form of genre thrills.
At some point, we should probably have a conversation about how our culture has now given us, within the span of two weeks, two separate horror movies in which young American nuns arrive in Italy only to discover a sinister plan by a demonic faction of the Catholic Church to impregnate women — with a biological heir to Jesus Christ in Immaculate and, now, with the Antichrist in The First Omen. The First Omen, directed by Arkasha Stevenson from a screenplay by herself, Keith Thomas, and Tim Smith, even makes a point of incorporating what’s happening in the society at large into its genre tale of creepy occurrences behind cloistered walls. When a rogue priest (Ralph Ineson) warns her that Carlita might well be marked with the sign of the Beast, and that she might have been bred by the Church specifically to give birth to the Anti-Christ, Margaret is in denial.
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