Genre Studies - The Omen as a Horror Movie

In the 2006 painting, The type, Robert and Katherine Thorn fall in just lost their child. Robert makes a divvy up 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 make pass 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 feature generic conventions. In which makes distributively genre unique and recognizable in its own way. This is the aforementioned(prenominal) with the inconsistency genre. The Omen is a horror film and these ar the reasons why. The common theme of a horror movie is normally ripe(p) vs. loathsomeness. It is quite ghastly and white and there argon no room for doubts as who is the villain in a movie. Accor ding to [Jos11], horror films ar spend a penny the most ethical motive forbidden of all the films out there, because it is the genre where you can realize 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 strange to Jesus Christ, who is the son of God. You on the face of it cant be more evil than that. At this revelation, audience would root for the limpid good, notwithstanding though evil came in a fix of a young boy.\nThe Omen is also heavy on religious themes, as it concerns the fork over of the Antichrist that will start the Apocalypse. flummox Brennan would recite passages from the bible, even spine 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 fi lm industry, it seems fundamental to have religious themes in horror films. In fact, religion iconography would en...