Trivia for Omikron

The film's title has actually nothing to do with the film's content. The title actually is the fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. Director Quantic Dream said that he heard the word 'omikron' several times during spooky tales at night, and it reminded him of "demonic, surrealistic creepy things".

The film was a financial and commercial bomb, however a lot of critics consider the film to be a cinematic masterpiece. Richard Schickel said that he thinks this to be "The Lost Highway Version of Evil Dead".

The film is listed in the "Top 10 most mixed received movies of all time" by the AFI.

Director Quantic Dream said that with The Nomad Soul (1996) he wanted to create a non-conventive slasherfilm, with The House Of Somebody (1999) he wanted to create a non-conventive psychological horror drama and with Omikron (2003) he wanted to create a surrealistic, suspenseful movie led by suggestive imagery which cannot be non-conventive because nobody has ever done it yet.

The film was so unsuccesful at the box office, that director Quantic Dream was considering to stop making movies, but his wife said that he had to "make a new start". This made him direct the next Nomad Soul sequels which were both shot back-to-back.