Genre Studies - The Omen as a Horror Movie

In the 2006 word-painting, The herald, Robert and Katherine Thorn dumbfound nevertheless lost their child. Robert makes a count to replace their son with an orphan 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 obtain and Robert Thorn discovers that his son is the Antichrist and he must 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 possess generic conventions. In which makes to each one genre unique and specifiable in its own way. This is the said(prenominal) with the plague genre. The Omen is a horror film and these argon the reasons why. The common theme of a horror movie is commonly pricy vs. aversion. It is quite unforgiving and white and there be no room for doubts as who is the villain in a movie. According to [Jos 11], horror films be bring on the most ethical motive proscribed of all the films out there, because it is the genre where you can watch clear lines between good and evil, black and white, without the gray. In The Omen, it is translucent 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 unlike to Jesus Christ, who is the son of God. You plainly cant be more evil than that. At this revelation, audience would root for the intelligible good, thus far though evil came in a blueprint of a young boy.\nThe Omen is also heavy on religious themes, as it concerns the extradite of the Antichrist that will start the Apocalypse. aim Brennan would recite passages from the bible, even goading 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 Malaysian film industry, it seems fund amental to have religious themes in horror films. In fact, religion iconography would en...