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–And Now The Podcast Starts! is a critical, fun journey with four informed fans of film and TV. Each episode will focus on a different topic for review or discussion, usually taking the horror genre as a starting point, but going in an unexpected direction, and often featuring special guests.
AKA Omen Trilogy Retrospective #2
Back in 2023, Dan, Stella, Ian and Howard recorded a chat about 1978's Satanic sequel Damian: Omen II to follow up their chat on 1976's The Omen. Ghosts (or demons) got into the machine, however, and caused most of the recording to be lost. In January 2025, though, Dan sat down with friend of the podcast Steve Timms to get a fresh perspective on the film, while including some of the surviving comments from the rest of the team. Will Dan and Steve agree with Howard that this example from the first golden age of the Hollywood sequel (released in the same year as Jaws 2 and the year before Rocky II) is a roaring romp, or with Ian that it's dull and deeply unmemorable?
APOLOGIES: Lots of us call it "The Omen II" when it's actually called Damien: Omen II. We know.
MORE APOLOGIES: Sorry for our first new episode of 2025 coming out in February rather than, as first announced, January. Sadly, it will be a while before we can get back to a weekly schedule, but we will be releasing bonus episodes now and then.
Works Cited
Damien: Omen II (Twentieth-Century Fox, US 1978, director: Don Taylor) is available on Blu-Ray from Scream Factory and is streaming on Disney+
Oliver Harper and Bad Movie Bible's commentary for the film is on YouTube
Our episode about The Omen
Our episode on The Unhealer (featuring an interview with Lance Henriksen)
Our episodes on Halloween, Halloween III and Suspiria (featuring contributions from Steve)
Artwork by Kirsty Worrow (Instagram: OneCrowLeft). Music by Greg Hulme.
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--And Now The Podcast Starts!
–And Now The Podcast Starts! is a critical, fun journey with four informed fans of film and TV. Each episode will focus on a different topic for review or discussion, usually taking the horror genre as a starting point, but going in an unexpected direction, and often featuring special guests.
