re: #5 Dr Lizardo

Before The DaVinci Code, there was The Omen (not the unnecessary remake from 2006, mind you). The screenwriter, David Seltzer, unintentionally helped popularize what had been, up to that time, the fringe concept of premillenial dispensationalism. He borrowed a few ideas from that, a heaping helping of made-up “quotes” from the Book of Revelation, a little bit of fundamentalist Protestant conspiracy theories regarding Catholics and pretty much straight-up invented the idea of the Antichrist being the literal son of Satan (an idea that’s still very prevalent to this day). The Omen also popularized 666 as the “number of the Beast”…there’s a reason that’s explicitly mentioned in the script, as many audience members wouldn’t have been all that familiar with that notion in the mid-1970s.

All propelled by a great score from Jerry Goldsmith. IIRC, he won an Oscar for it.

Crazy that a theological belief is based on a 70’s horror movie.