Oblivious.

Well after indulging on horror films this Halloween weekend I finally caught up with A History Of Horror with Mark Gattiss and was suddenly struck with realisation! How had it not occurred to me before!? While Gattiss was discussing 'The Omen'  and mentioned how the photographer, Jennings' images hinted at the forthcoming doom I was reminded of 'Final Destination 3'! In that film photographs also hint at the deaths to come. I watched 'The Omen' several times before seeing 'Final Destination 3' so you'd think I'd have picked up on this. For shame.


It was a great excuse to watch the films again to get relevant screen shots though ;)

The Omen

Final Destination 3





























I also realised that I'm not scared of the little demon boy in 'The Omen' but I am terrified of the demon girl in 'The Exorcist'. How odd. Maybe it's because you expect little boys to be a nightmare but little girls are meant to be all sugar and spice and everything nice and Regan's definitely not that! It could be that Damien's very underplayed, he's a quiet subdued boy (very much like Danny in 'The Shining' actually) but Regan physically transforms into the stuff of nightmares. We first see her as a nice cute girl and watch with disgust as she becomes a spitting, vomiting, rotting corpse of an old woman *shudders*. Maybe it's because we see her on the cusp on death when she's so young that it disturbs us. Human's see death as an ugly, evil thing and it physically manifests itself in a young girl just like that and we don't like to be presented with it so starkly before us.

   EDIT: The only way to make me like Regan... Crochet! D'awww