why the first omen failed at the box office

The First Omen is a masterpiece, it's scary it's creative and its fun, but it did not resonate as well with audiences, despite great reviews having 81 percent on Rotten Tomatoes with critics loving it calling it phenomenal, terrifying, frightening, a bright future for the franchise and audiences giving it a 70 which is decent audience reviews are calling it great, scary, a bit too slow paced but despite all of the positive reviews, it failed having an extremely huge budget for a horror movie costing 30 million dollars it only made 50 million which if you didn't know a film needs to make around twice its budget to make a profit since movie theatres take some of that money away and advertising taking some of the money away. and last year audiences saw The Exorcist Believer and thought it was terrible people have been thinking recently that these sequels to old movies are bad more often than good. It's really sad that the first omen failed because i was interested to see where this franchise to go next and excited for a sequel i know that it is super unlikely but i hope they make a sequel and give it a budget of 15-20 million so it could make a profit, but who knows maybe in 48 years they will make another omen movie, it could be like scream 4 where it failed but even though it failed 11 years after they made a scream 5

why it failed

some reasons it failed are it is 2 hours long and casual moviegoers won't want to see a 2-hour movie as much. audiences are sick of legacy sequels to old movies, especially after the exorcist believer. the movie held critics from reviewing it until the day before the movie was advertised as your average jumpscare horror movie and the trailers made it look bad. The Omen not being a super popular old horror movie, I know it has its fans but not a lot of people consider it a classic. The First Omen was meant to be a straight-streaming movie but after people reacted positively they released it in theaters. and a move named immaculate came out just two weeks before this one with an extremely similar plot, immaculate has had a slow box office but it was still a box office success making 2.5x its budget but people wouldnt really want to see the same movie again, even though they are very different in execution.