A horror franchise prequel tops the DVD releases for the week of July 30.
“The First Omen”: An American nun (Nell Tiger Free) comes to Rome in 1971 to work at an orphanage and uncovers a church conspiracy to spawn the Antichrist as a twisted way to scare people back into the faith.
“I hate to call ‘The First Omen’ unexpectedly well-crafted and a little bit surprising, even,” writes Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips in his review. “But for an essentially unnecessary prequel to ‘The Omen,’ the 1976 hit about one satanically minded child, two unfortunate parents and three sixes, its virtues point to an auspicious feature debut from director and co-writer Arkasha Stevenson, a former Los Angeles Times photojournalist with an eye for sinister beauty.”
Also new on DVD
“Ted Lasso: The Richmond Way”: Contains all three seasons of the award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Jason Sudeikis in the title role as the unlikely American coach of a British soccer team.
“Sting”: A girl’s pet spider grows up all too fast in this horror thriller that finds a family fending off a giant arachnid.
