The Whorrors!

#168: The Omen (1976)


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Happy Mother’s Day!  Make sure you water your plants on stable ladders, avoid unnecessary globe-trotting, and check your kid for birthmarks before tuning in to our coverage of the poster-child for being child-free by choice in 1976’s The Omen.


***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of suicide, infanticide, religion 


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Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ([email protected])

Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd

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Sources: 

  • Balanzategui, Jessica. “The Child and Adult Trauma in American Horror of the 1980s.” The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema: Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, Amsterdam University Press, 2018, pp. 35–66. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv80cc7v.5. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.

  • Berlatsky, Noah. “Hell Is for Children: The Revolutionary Politics of ‘The Omen’”. https://wearethemutants.com/2020/10/30/hell-is-for-children-the-revolutionary-politics-of-the-omen/ 

  • The Omen (1976) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omen 

  • Nosferatu (2024) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075005/  


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