'The Omen' Is Everything That Makes '70s Horror Great

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'The Omen' Is Everything That Makes '70s Horror Great
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With its signature score and nerve-shredding suspense, Richard Donner's 1976 film is every bit the equal of its contemporaries

The Big Picture The 1970s unleashed a wave of classics upon the movie-going world. Indisputably a momentous era in the history of cinema across the world at large, the decade's abundance of creative horror outings is similarly undeniable. Some of the movies hailing from the timeframe became overnight, epoch-defining sensations — instant classics lapped up by casual audiences and discerning cinephiles alike.

The film charts the Thorns' journey and Kathy's gradual realization that Damian is not hers so skillfully, that the sense of loss which courses through the film marries up with the visceral frights to deliver an experience wholly impactful.

And at the film's midpoint, after events have escalated beyond the easily explainable, a sequence wherein Thorn attends photographer Keith Jennings' apartment is given a singularly creepy treatment. Jennings informs Thorn that eerie harbingers may be appearing in the photos he is taking, perhaps even preempting deaths.

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