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The First Omen (Stevenson 2024)

The First Omen is a long slow burn. It is beautifully constructed, well acted, and intellectually terrifying. If you can see this in a theater, please do!

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SPOILERS IN THIS EPISODE

Proxy (Parker 2013)

Inside (Bustillo & Maury 2007)

TOPIC INDEX – The First Omen (Stevenson 2024) (times are approximate)

0:30 – Introductions

5:00 – Film discussion begins

6:00 – Laura has submitted a short horror film to festivals!

11:00 – Spoilers begin

12:00 – opening scene as mise en abyme

14:00 – plot overview and discussion topics

20:00 – mothers and babies

25:00 – unethical aesthetics

28:30 – critique of the Catholic Church?

31:00 – 1960s social movements in Rome

38:00 – emotional experience and antichrist baby

41:00 – representation of difficult decisions

56:30 – grading the film using the Collective Nightmares Evolving Rubric of Social Responsibility

1:04:00 – outro

1:05:00 – Laura submitting to film festivals!!! and winning awards!!!

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Keywords

horror, podcast, sociology, gender, bodies, male gaze, menstruation, period, mise en abyme, abortion, devil, children, pregnancy, incest, rape, sexual assault, cult, Church, Christianity, nunnery, convent, orphanage, misogyny, gaslighting, infanticide, prequel, motherhood, mothering, women, antichrist, infanticide

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