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The Omen (Paperback)
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The Omen (Paperback)
Series: Devil's Advocates
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Directed by Richard Donner and written by David Seltzer, The Omen
(1976) is perhaps the best in the devil-child cycle of movies that
followed in the wake of Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist. Released
to a highly suggestible public, The Omen became a major commercial
success, in no small part due to an elaborate pre-sell campaign
that played and preyed on apocalyptic fears and a renewed belief in
the Devil and the supernatural. Since polarising critics and
religious groups upon its release, The Omen has earned its place in
the horror film canon. It's a film that works on different levels,
is imbued with nuance, ambiguity and subtext, and is open to
opposing interpretations. Reflecting the film's cultural impact and
legacy, the name 'Damien' has since become a pop culture byword for
an evil child. Adrian Schober's Devil's Advocate entry covers the
genesis, authorship, production history, marketing and reception of
The Omen, before going on to examine the overarching theme of
paranoia that drives the narrative: paranoia about the 'end times';
paranoia about government and conspiracy; paranoia about child
rearing (especially, if one strips away the layer of Satanism); and
paranoia about imagined threats to the right-wing Establishment
from liberal and post-countercultural forces of the 1970s.
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