The Omen (1976)

And now, to take a break from our Japanese film festival, I bring my thoughts on The Omen franchise.

This movie is trash, but it’s exceptionally well-made trash. I think Richard Donner, in his first assignment for a feature film outside of television, thought he was making another The Exorcist, but I also don’t think that Donner was particularly good at the whole narrative side of filmmaking. After the film, I read up on it a bit, and he apparently had a bunch of the supernatural elements...