Gabrielle Bondi – The Omen (1976)
My grandma took a lot of pleasure of freaking me out as a kid. From her scary bedtime stories to making me watch ALL of the Alfred Hitchcock movies as a six-year-old, she really liked to test my limits. The one movie that she insisted I watch was The Omen (1976 version).
During the summer I was seven, we took two buses to the video rental store (Ha, remember those?) to get the movie. I was mostly just happy that she also let me rent Father of the Bride Part II and bought candy.
Anyway, seeing a man decapitated by a sheet of window glass is definitely the kind of thing that will scar a seven-year-old. What freaked me out too about The Omen was that a child was the villain. That someone like me or my little brother (and yes, I did check his head for a trio of sixes) could be so evil made me feel a little unsafe. It also didn’t help that I went to Catholic school, so being introduced to something called the “Antichrist” did a number on me as well.
Despite being freaked out, I did actually like the movie. It did give me a couple nightmares, but that didn’t stop me from watching The Omen a dozen more times later on in life.
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