10 Recent Movies NOBODY Expected To Be Good
9. The First Omen
It was tough not to groan when a prequel to legendary horror film The Omen was first announced, because did anyone outside of the studio actually ask for this? The Omen is a fantastic self-contained story that really didn't beg for elaboration.
Couple this with the film being filmmaker Arkasha Stevenson's feature debut, and it was tough to muster even a shred of enthusiasm for this glorified exercise in cynical brand reinforcement.
But oh, how wrong we all were.
The First Omen isn't just a competent horror prequel - it's one of the most well-made and brilliantly acted horrors of the entire year.
Girded by Stevenson's tense, unsettling direction and an astounding central performance from the great Nell Tiger Free, this is a rarest of horror prequels that truly justifies its existence.
It's clear in every frame of this film that all involved cared about making something memorable and impactful, rather than a mere bucket of genre mulch to feed the unrelenting content algorithm.