Genre Studies - The Omen as a Horror Movie

In the 2006 video, The figure, Robert and Katherine Thorn befuddle and lost their child. Robert makes a cud to replace their son with an deprive child who they later named Damien. As the child grows, Katherine notices something weird with Damien, in which he never gets sick. As the film unfolds, horrible things ascertain and Robert Thorn discovers that his son is the Antichrist and he mustiness decide whether or not he must kill his only child.\nA film can be decided which genre it belongs to by seeing if it fits the generic conventions of a genre. Each genre has its own generic conventions. In which makes distributively genre unique and diagnosable in its own way. This is the comparable with the standoff genre. The Omen is a horror film and these argon the reasons why. The common theme of a horror movie is normally steady-going vs. nuisance. It is quite morose and white and there be no room for doubts as who is the villain in a movie. According to [Jos11], horror fi lms ar piss the most morals tabu of all the films out there, because it is the genre where you can conduct clear lines between good and evil, black and white, without the gray. In The Omen, it is perspicuous that the villain on the movie is Damien Thorn, who is believed to be the Antichrist. In Christianity, the Antichrist is believed to be the son of the devil, as oppose to Jesus Christ, who is the son of God. You plain cant be more evil than that. At this revelation, audience would root for the self-explanatory good, purge though evil came in a sort of a young boy.\nThe Omen is also heavy on religious themes, as it concerns the give birth of the Antichrist that will start the Apocalypse. produce Brennan would recite passages from the bible, even rede for Robert Thorn to take communion. In American horror film, even if the film is horror, it does not have to have religious themes. However, for the Malayan film industry, it seems fundamental to have religious themes in horror films. In fact, religion iconography would en...