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Amy West

Upcoming The Omen horror movie prequel director says trying to avoid the NC-17 rating "weirdly made it more intense"

Nell Tiger Free as Margaret in The First Omen.

The First Omen director Arkasha Stevenson says she spent 18 months fighting for one particularly violent scene to be included in the horror prequel, despite 20th Century Studios pushing for its R-rating. Actively trying to avoid an NC-17 rating, in fact, made the more movie "more intense", says producer Keith Levine.

Starring Servant's Nell Tiger Free, the follow-up follows Margaret, as she travels from the US to Rome to start a new life of religious servitude. Once there, though, she finds herself wrestling with a darkness so great it causes her to question her faith. 

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