Evil has taken many memorable forms at the movies, be it Tim Curry covered in makeup for Ridley Scott’s Legend or the IT miniseries, Al Pacino’s sharply dressed villain from Devil’s Advocate, or far less humanized entities. But one of the most iconic, and most unsuspecting, has to be young Damian Thorne - the boy who would become the Antichrist, in Richard Donner’s horror classic The Omen. And we now have our first big look at the next chapter in that twisted saga.
The 2024 movie schedule has us returning to the demonic tale through the upcoming horror movie The First Omen, which is set to detail the story behind the doomed boy’s arrival. Rather than immediately filling the movie’s marketing with jump scares, the first trailer released by 20th Century Studios instead trades in actual dread and mystery. And to be honest, I’m actually kind of pumped for that.
