The Omen

Carroll explains the different aspects of horror and the many ways horror can be portrayed. "If horror has something repulsive about it, how can audiences be attracted to it?" Why are we attracted to it? Many audiences enjoy the unknown and suspense a horror film may bring to the viewer. Perhaps it's the interesting fact that you may find The Omen very scary, suspenseful, disturbing, while your friend finds it slow, not scary and lagging. The many different avenues and ways people feel about horror can be so diverse.

In The Omen, life is good for Robert and Katherine Thorne, they are a happily married couple very much in love with a baby on the way. Mr. Thorne is the ambassador of Great Britain and is under the spotlight. After his wife gives birth to a still born he accepts a newborn from a priest at the hospital whose mother died during labor.... After the family moves to London many strange occurances begin to happen... At the child's birthday party I wondered why the nanny hung herself and the dog had a fierce staring contest with the dog.

The priest that was impaled tried to worn Mr. Thorne that his son was the anti Christ. His wife was also aware that there was something strange about their son but could not put her finger on it until it was too late. Mr. Thorne met a photographer in which he gained trust and traveled abroad to seek his son's true identity. There he meets Bugenhagen a reclusive priest who tells him his son Damien was born not of a woman but of a jackal. Then tries to persuade him with seven daggers to kill his so called son, the anti Christ. Mr.Thorne also discovers the grave of Damien's mother which has the body of a jackal and his so called still born child... This was all set up so the anti Christ would go to a powerful family. Mr. Thorne is executed in the end as he tries to execute Damien ... Damien then gets adopted by Robert Thorne's brother (head of Thorne enterprises) the most powerful company in the world.

This movie follows close to "The Book of Revelations" and the coming of the apocalypse. How the anti Christ from birth will rise to power through wealth, politics, greed, manipulation, envy and to be perceived as a savior,but really bring about all that is unholy and evil.