Episode 184: The Omen (1976) and The First Omen (2024)
The Hello, Sidney Podcast
Sidney
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 128 minutes
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In this episode, Sidney breaks down one of the most classic religious horror films, The Omen (1976) and its prequel The First Omen (2024).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello? Hello, Sydney. What is up, you spooky bitches? We are back with another episode of the Hello Sydney podcast, your podcast for horror lovers where we discuss any and all things horror. it's me your girl sydney happy wednesday happy |
| 0:23.0 | end of april pretty much already this is just this is the time of year when it flies by which like |
| 0:28.1 | this is the time of year i'd like to slow the fuck down you know it's finally getting nice out i'm not |
| 0:33.5 | freezing i have a will to live again like maybe that's why it's speeding by. That's probably why. How is everybody? What's been going on? What have you all been up to? What have you been watching? I went and saw Lee Cronin's The Mummy yesterday. And it was fine. I mean, I feel like it was fine. I do feel like it was just literally another evil dead rise because it's the same director same |
| 0:54.7 | universe but it was literally just evil dead rise with like an Egyptian element added to it |
| 0:59.7 | which is fine again like I didn't dislike it but I'm like okay I've seen this before and it's also |
| 1:06.3 | like two hours and 14 minutes long which I just think absurd. I think it was dragged out a bit much. |
| 1:11.6 | Could have been shorter, but I'm all for making movies shorter. Unless it's something like |
| 1:15.6 | sinners, where you fill that two hours and you fill it well and it doesn't feel like it's two |
| 1:20.9 | hours, do not make a two hour movie. It's usually not necessary. But yeah, I watched that and then what other |
| 1:26.5 | new movie did I watch? This movie Hive on Tobe, which is definitely a FTK movie. It's about these kids, like these killer kids, but it's like the playground possesses them to be killed. It's kind of a unique and different concept. It's one of those movies that's like low-key, so bad it good so i actually didn't mind hive it was a fun |
| 1:45.6 | watch it was entertaining other than that i have just been watching omen after omen after omen because |
| 1:50.8 | i'm prepping for next week's episode too because i'm going to be away next week because i leave on sunday |
| 1:56.0 | to go to manchester u k to film winnie the poo blood and honey three which i am so excited about but i'm getting everything in order so i got to film Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey 3, which I am so excited about, but I'm getting |
| 2:02.5 | everything in order. So I got to film next week's episodes first, including the first episode for next |
| 2:07.8 | month, which I will give you guys the theme for next month in this month's last episode. I think you |
| 2:13.4 | guys are going to like it, so I'm excited to tell you, but we'll see. But today, we are talking |
| 2:18.4 | about a religious horror movie that is very highly regarded in the horror community. It's a staple |
| 2:24.7 | in the horror community. This is a movie that I think everybody needs to see at least once if you're |
| 2:28.8 | a horror fan. And of course, I'm talking about the original Omen from 1976. And the Omen is directed by |
| 2:35.8 | Richard Donner, written by David Seltzer. And it's starring Gregory Peck and Lee Remick. And Gregory |
| 2:42.2 | Peck, when he was in this movie, it was kind of shocking for a couple reasons. One, |
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