Episode 26: The Omen (1976)

Theme: Creepy Kids in Movies
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis wrap up “Creepy Kids in Movies” Month with The Omen — the 1976 classic that asks the important questions, like:
“What if your kid was the Antichrist… and also a five-year-old who rides a trike indoors?”

Join your two favorite honorary exorcists as they break down:

• How The Omen is basically One Hour Photo meets Problem Child meets Beethoven — except with a far higher priest-skewer count.

• Why Mrs. Baylock is the true villain of the film… and also the movie’s best linebacker.

• How Gregory Peck acts like being the U.S. Ambassador means never having to check references, question random nannies who appear out of thin air, or ask, “Hey, why is this snarling demon dog in my child’s bedroom?”

• Why Father Brennan shows up like a one-man doomsday podcast shrieking, “Repent! Your kid’s the Devil!” before even introducing himself.

• How every London photographer apparently shares one camera, one scarf, and one destiny.

• Why baboons are the original film critics — and also the only characters in this movie who have a normal, healthy reaction to Damien.

• And perhaps the greatest moral of all: never leave your wife alone in a hospital when there’s a satanic nanny in town.

From Latin chanting to decapitated David Warners, from lightning-rod kabobs to tricycle homicide, Oz and Curtis explore this 70s “comedy” (as Curtis likes to call it) that brought us the most adorable hellspawn since… well, since the sequel.

Final Verdict:

Oz — 7 monster-truck-crushed cars
Curtis — 71 airborne David Warner heads
Both — Still refusing to adopt any child born anywhere near Italy on June 6th at 6 AM.