The First Omen (2024)

Released April 5th in the US.

Filmed in Italy and Serbia.

The story : Rome , 1971.

Young , American nun Margaret Daino has come all the way from her hometown of Pittsfield , Massachusetts to begin a new life , living and working at a Catholic orphanage.

She is very excited to be there, brought into the church by a wise Cardinal who she loves and trusts and has known all her life.

Soon she meets even younger Carlita , who is an orphan the nuns keep locked away in a room by herself.

Margaret has much sympathy for Carlita and cannot imagine she could do anything wrong enough to be locked away from the world.

When the nuns notice Margaret taking a liking to Carlita , they try to sway her from paying much attention.

All of this confuses poor Margaret and soon she is approached by a priest who asks her to get the birth records of Carlita , who he claims is a child the church helped bring into the world as the Antichrist.

Margaret believes the priest to be out of his mind but after finding said files and realizing he was right , she begins plotting her and Carlita's escape.

Stars Nell Tiger Free , Bill Nighy , Sonia Braga , Maria Caballero , Ishtar Currie Wilson , Dora Romano , Eugenia Delbue , Donatella Bartoli , Tawfeek Barhom , Nicole Sorace , Federica Santoro , Ralph Ineson , Andrea Arcangeli , Charles Dance , Guido Quaglione , Anton Alexander , Michelangelo Dalisi

Directed by Arkasha Stevenson

Rated R
PREQUEL/HORROR/SCIFI