{"id":16934,"date":"2024-10-26T20:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T00:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16934"},"modified":"2024-10-26T17:26:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T21:26:45","slug":"the-first-omen-2024-arkasha-stevenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16934","title":{"rendered":"The First Omen (2024, Arkasha Stevenson)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The only movie this year that I’ve begun at 4:00am. I was sick and unable to sleep, and when the rooster next door started crowing I thought “might as well put on the longest, slowest movie I’ve got.” The new nun in town is NT Free of that M. Night TV series that I can’t figure out whether I would enjoy or not, and the wide-eyed elder nun is Aquarius<\/a><\/em> star Sonia Braga. NT discovers her new convent to be as suspicious as that Cuckoo<\/a><\/em> hotel, as the movie brings Rosemary’s Baby<\/a><\/em> (or more generously The Sect<\/a><\/em>) into its Omen<\/em> backstory and impregnates the youngest nun with the devil.<\/p>\n

All movies set in Italy involve a dramatic encounter with an art restoration:<\/em>
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Bilge called it “actually good<\/a>” and Nayman qualifies “never quite great<\/a>.” But I have prequelphobia, and as much as I love quoting “it’s all for you” from the original, the callbacks here annoyed me more than the high-quality performance and hair stylings of NT pulled me in. Also appreciate the ally priest being recast as the dad from The VVitch<\/a><\/em>, and the opening-scene death of the U.S. President of Rumours<\/a><\/em>, anyway.<\/p>\n

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The only movie this year that I’ve begun at 4:00am. I was sick and unable to sleep, and when the rooster next door started crowing I thought “might as well put on the longest, slowest movie I’ve got.” The new nun in town is NT Free of that M. Night TV series that I can’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,3335,842,332,2019,1251],"class_list":["post-16934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-arkasha-stevenson","tag-devil","tag-nuns","tag-pregnancy","tag-prequel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16953,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16934\/revisions\/16953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}