Thoughts About The Omen (1976)

Mrs. Blaylock seems like such a happy person at the beginning of the 1976 version of The Omen. A trifle sad, perhaps, but still she looks like such a nice person.

So what could possibly happen to make her go from this...

...to this?

For that matter, why don't we ever hear about Mr. Blaylock? Is Mrs. Blaylock a widow? A divorced woman? Did Mr. Blaylock ever exist or was he just a figment of Mrs. Blaylock's imagination?

At the very least, Mrs. Blaylock seems to be a far better nanny than her immediate predecessor...

Apart from the whole "killing people to protect the Antichrist" thing.

R.I.P. Billie Whitelaw

English actress Billie Whitelaw -- best known for her role as Mrs. Blaylock in the original 1976 version of The Omen as well for such roles as Marie Antoinette in the 1970 French Revolution comedy Start the Revolution Without Me and Hetty Porter in the 1972 Hitchcock thriller Frenzy -- took her last bow on December 21, 2014, at age 82.

She will be missed.