Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it Again, Sam." Charles Boyer never said "Come with me to the Casbah". And O Fortuna from Carmina Burana, also know as the Omen theme -
was not in any of the Omen movies. Instead, there was a kind of similar but not really original score by Jerry Goldsmith. The vibe is similar, but you couldn't confuse the two.
In fact, unless you count Salo and Natural Born Killers (which I don't), the only horror feature it's ever been used in that I could find is 2002's miserable Thai film 999-999. How did the piece become associated as a horror movie cliche, and specifically as the theme song of the antichrist?
Hard to say. It's been used plenty of times in a non-horrific, dramatic context, probably most notably in Excalibur. Like most of these kinds of things, the association probably comes from parody - commercials, comedy skits, etc.
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