First Trailer forThe First OmenHolds Devilish Promise

The Exorcist : Believerwas one ofthe big horror letdown of 2023 . But it ’s a new year , and a dissimilar 1970s horror classic is face to enlarge its world — and this time , it looks very bright . The first trailer for The First Omen , a prequel to1976 ’s The Omen , is here , and it ’s bringing Satanic conspiracy galore .

You may be enquire yourself , as most horror fans will , if The Omen actually needs a prequel ; after all , the backstory of how the real Damien Thorn was switched at giving birth with the Antichrist , “ 666″ nevus and all , is pretty well covered by Gregory Peck ’s frantic detective workplace in that first motion-picture show . But the natural endowment behind The First Omen has the potential drop to override any intuitive feeling that it ’s a mere John Cash catch ; for one affair , it ’s directed by Arkasha Stevenson , who helmedthe Butcher ’s Block seasonof the tardy , great horror anthology series Channel Zero . Her flair for sick yet gorgeous visuals was on full video display there . At the time , she talk to io9about how her work has been strongly tempt by David Lynch , explain “ I ’m really concerned in societal realness — that ’s very much from my desktop as a diarist — but then , melding that with surrealism . That ’s on the dot what I think David Lynch does ; I think he ’s a societal realist on some level . ” Her season of Channel Zero , she went on to say , was about “ taking problems that are very much rooted in our everyday reality , and then surrealism seeps in . You ’re create this psychological terror naturally because you do n’t know whether to trust what you ’re seeing or not . ”

While The First Omen — about an American fair sex in Rome who uncovers the impending baby - switching conspiracy at hand — is belike less stock-still in “ everyday reality ” than Butcher ’s Block was , we ’re still look forward to seeing what Stevenson does with this story ; she co - spell the script with Tim Smith and Keith Thomas , from a level by Ben Jacoby and based on David Seltzer ’s original fiber . And she has a great cast , too , with Servant ’s Nell Tiger Free alongside veteran player Sonia Braga , Ralph Ineson , and Bill Nighy .

Screenshot: 20th Century Studios

Are you activated for The First Omen ? It releases April 5 .

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