With the prevailing rationale being that the horror genre gets way less scary the more you attempt to explain it, the work of a horror movie prequel is mostly devoted to justifying its own existence. The First Omen, which just hit Hulu, is not an outlier to this — it’s here to show you how we managed to get to the events of the classic 1976 film, The Omen. What makes it different is how effectively it turns what could be a rote set-up and unnecessary exposition into fantastic thriller material.
