The Omen - The Most Cursed Movie Production of All Time?

This Paranormal Life

Improv, True Crime, Comedy

4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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When The Omen premiered in 1976 it caused a stir globally. While continuing the legacy of recent supernatural horror movies like Rosemary’s Baby, and The Exorcist, it almost went a step further by depicting the anti-christ himself in the character of little Damien. Religious leaders were worried that depicting the anti-christ and his work would invite chaos and destruction — and they weren’t wrong — the movie production would become one of the most disastrous and infamous with several deaths linked to what would eventually be known… as the curse of The Omen. Become a commune member to get access to bonus episodes:www.thisparanormallife.com Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join our Secret Society Facebook Community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Edited by Philip Shacklady ⁠⁠Research by Ewen Friers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's the mid-70s and we're on a movie set in London.
0:03.5	The director shouts.
0:05.0	All right, I think we got it.
0:07.0	Let's reset for one more before we lose the light.
0:09.5	Can we get the animal handler in here?
0:12.0	It's been a long day of filming with a star cast and crew and everything has been going smoothly so far.
0:17.0	The final scene of the day involved a couple of Rotottbiler dogs. These dogs were no exception.
0:21.6	They probably had more IMDB credits than Kamal Nanjani, and were very well behaved.
0:26.6	All right, lights, camera and rolling!
0:30.6	When all of a sudden something overcomes the dogs, they see red and snap and start savaging the stuntman on set Terry Walsh.
0:39.8	Ah, help!
0:41.4	He cries.
0:42.6	Someone yell cut!
0:44.3	This is good tape.
0:45.8	Keep rolling for a second, then cut.
0:47.6	The animal handler kicked into action and thankfully the stuntman survived, but he was extremely rattled.
0:54.8	Trainer said it was extremely unusual.
0:57.5	Special effects guy, George Gibbs later said,
1:00.1	the dogs actually bit right through everything, the padding, all the steel, the lot.
1:05.2	Terry passed out.
1:07.0	Unfortunately for the cast and crew, this wasn't an outlier event. This was the latest chapter
1:12.2	in the most terrifying and disturbing project any of them had been involved with and cemented
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