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The Omen at 50: The Story Behind the Crown Jewel of Religious Horror

June 25, 2026 by admin

Hasitha Fernando on the story behind The Omen as it turns 50…Religious horror is a subgenre that is not meant for weak minded viewers. From the get-go you are drawn into an unholy world of profanity and darkness that challenges your very beliefs. Over the years different filmmakers have given us many unforgettable religious horror […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Hasitha Fernando, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: billie whitelaw, David Warner, Gregory Peck, Harvey Spencer Stevens, Lee Remick, Patrick Troughton, Richard Donner, the omen

10 Essential Movies from 1976

January 27, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a look at a great year for cinema with ten essential movies from 1976…A stellar year in cinema can sometimes be judged by the strength of the Best Picture nominees. Then you could look again in a decade or two and see which films have accrued a loyal cult following and been more […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: 1900, All The President's Men, Assault on Precinct 13, Carrie, Death Among the Pines, God Told Me To, In the Realm of the Senses, Kings of the Road, Marathon Man, network, Obsession, Rocky, Taxi Driver, The Killing of A Chinese Bookie, The Man Who Fell to Earth, the omen, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Tenant

10 Great Horror Movies with Villainous Protagonists

August 24, 2025 by Vanessa Maki

Vanessa Maki with ten great horror movies centring on villainous protagonists…In the world of horror, typically we’re meant to root for the protagonists like the final girl or boy, the character who endears us the most, and so on. Occasionally those characters aren’t antagonistic or villainous, as many tropes follow particular formulas. However, there are […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Top Stories, Vanessa Maki Tagged With: Angst, Brighburn, Excision, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, pearl, Sissy, Spree, The Devil's Rejects, the omen, Tragedy Girls

Essential Demonic Horror Movies To Send Shivers Down Your Spine

January 31, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Grab your Holy Bible and rosary beads as we look at ten essential demonic horror movies that will send shivers down your spine…As Flickering Myth takes a leap into independent film with The Baby in the Basket, our own little slice of demonic horror (releasing on DVD and Digital this February!), maybe now is a […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Demons, Evil Dead 2, Hellraiser, Hereditary, Rosemary's Baby, The Baby in the Basket, The Entity, The Exorcist, the omen, The Wailing, the witch

Godzilla x Kong crushes Dev Patel and the Devil at the box office

April 7, 2024 by Matt Rodgers

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire continued to leave a Kaiju-sized footprint at the worldwide box-office, and in the process crushed new releases Monkey Man and The First Omen.Warner Bros. and Legendary’s Godzilla x Kong stomped its way to a sophomore weekend of $31 million, lifting the domestic total to $135 million, which already surpasses […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: Godzilla, Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, king kong, monkey man, MonsterVerse, The First Omen, the omen

Movie Review – The First Omen (2024)

April 4, 2024 by Robert Kojder

The First Omen, 2024.Directed by Arkasha Stevenson. Starring Nell Tiger Free, Ralph Ineson, Sônia Braga, Tawfeek Barhom, María Caballero, Charles Dance, Bill Nighy, Nicole Sorace, Ishtar Currie Wilson, Andrea Arcangeli, Guido Quaglione, Dora Romano, Michelangelo Dalisi, Anton Alexander, Mia McGovern Zaini, and Rachel Hurd-Wood.SYNOPSIS:A young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life […]

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The First Omen brings forth a terrifying new trailer

March 11, 2024 by EJ Moreno

For decades, The Omen franchise has brought religious-tined scares to audiences. The long-running horror movie series is back with a prequel to the classic film.20th Century Studios has released a terrifying new trailer and poster for The First Omen, their upcoming psychological horror film. Check out the poster and trailer below…The film is directed by […]

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Arkasha Stevenson, Bill Nighy, Nell Tiger Free, Ralph Ineson, Sonia Braga, Tawfeek Barhom, The First Omen, the omen

Horror prequel The First Omen sets April release with first-look image

November 18, 2023 by Gary Collinson

20th Century Studios has released the first official image from The First Omen, the upcoming prequel to the iconic horror franchise, which is set to release in cinemas in April 2024.Directed by Arkasha Stevenson (Legion, Brand New Cherry Flavor), The First Omen stars Nell Tiger Free (Servant) as Margaret – seen in the official image […]

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Seven Famous Cursed Movie Productions

October 8, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Disasters, terrible luck, radiation poisoning and death. We look at some famous cursed film productions…With Flickering Myth’s first foray into movie-making on The Baby in the Basket now underway, we’ve found ourselves faced with a number of problems throughout pre-production as recently covered in our pre-production update. We’ve dealt with unavoidable dropouts, unexpected costs and […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Atuk, Poltergeist, Stalker, The Baby in the Basket, The Crow, The Exorcist, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, the omen

Servant’s Nell Tiger Free to lead horror prequel The First Omen

September 2, 2022 by Ricky Church

Servant’s Nell Tiger Free has landed another horror project as Deadline reports she will star in The First Omen, a prequel to the 1976 classic The Omen.The Omen, which starred Gregory Peck, Lee Remick and Harvey Stephens, followed an American ambassador who came to believe his 5-year-old son was the Antichrist as mysterious and supernatural things […]

Filed Under: Movies, News, Ricky Church Tagged With: Arkasha Stevenson, David S. Goyer, First Omen, Nell Tiger Free, the omen, Tim Smith

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