Police report filed over creepy ‘Omen’ press campaign
For #TheFirstOmen, 20th Century sent journalists strange drawings in handwritten envelopes with no explanation. One blogger, who also happens to be running for office, was convinced she’d been targeted by right-wing terrorists and filed a police report https://t.co/9vq7xfD8kI pic.twitter.com/EtRc6zXI4T
- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) April 13, 2024
20th Century Fox sent journalists anonymous letters with creepy drawings on them to promote ‘The First Omen’. “In the movie, there are these creepy drawings of little girls with their faces crossed out, so I got this idea to print them out and mail them to the press,” Marshall Weinbaum, the person behind the campaign, explains.
Amanda Taylor, a Missouri-based blogger - who also happens to be running for the state house on a pro-choice ticket - was convinced she’d been targeted by right-wing terrorists and filed a police report. “I was freaking out,” she says. “My husband touched it, so I’m screaming at him to wash his hands.”
Weinbaum says he regrets frightening anyone but notes that “most people had fun with it.”