Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist, The Omen – sometime in the late ‘60s or early ‘70s, we all got real scared of our children. Gee, I wonder what that could be about? But whereas Rosemary’s Baby hinged on the conflicted nature of the visceral and alien experience of the less-frequently discussed parts of child-bearing, The Omen makes no bones about where its loyalties lie: the kid is a devil, the dad (Gregory Peck) is the hero, and he’s going to do whatever it takes to stop his son. The Omen wears its B-movie heart on its sleeve in a really endearing way, but the originality of its treatment and its enthusiasm for the material make it a timeless favorite.