The Omen: True to the Bible?

Richard Donner’s 1976 horror is fabulous hokum but how does it compare to the book?

Credit: 20th Century Fox

Warning: Contains spoilers.

In 1976, when Richard Donner made satanic panic horror The Omen, there was much hype and publicity around the film as being 20th Century Fox’s terrifying answer to The Exorcist (1973). Is it terrifying? Not really, especially almost forty years later. Instead, The Omen belongs to the paedophobia subgenr…