The Omen (1976)
Storyline
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil. A classic horror film with Gregory Peck from 1976.
Directors
Cast
Bruce Boa, Burnell Tucker, David Warner, Michael Byrne, Billie Whitelaw, Robert Rietty, Don Fellows, Bill Reimbold, Robert MacLeod, Tommy Duggan, Nicholas Campbell, Harvey Stephens, John Stride, Harvey Bernhard, Sheila Raynor, Martin Benson, Leo McKern, Gregory Peck, Nancy Mannigham, Lee Remick, Patrick Troughton, Holly Palance, Anthony Nicholls, Roy Boyd, Patrick McAlinney, Dawn Perllman, Miki Iveria, Betty McDowall, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Guglielmo Spoletini, Freda Dowie, Ya'ackov Banai
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Reviews
100
Much scarier than fellow possessed child flick The Exorcist, which predated it by three years, The Omen contains some of the most memorable untimely deaths in cinema history.
80
The performance of Harvey Stephens as the young Damien has invested the film with the chill of genuine credibility.
80
This apocalyptic movie mostly avoids physical gore to boost its relatively unoriginal storyline with suspense, some excellent acting (especially from Warner and Whitelaw), and a very deft, incident-packed script.
80
Variety
Suspenser starring Gregory Peck and Lee Remick as the unwitting parents of the Antichrist. Richard Donner's direction is taut. Players all are strong.
63
The Omen takes all of this terribly seriously, as befits the genre that gave us Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist. What Jesus was to the 1950s movie epic, the devil is to the 1970s, and so all of this material is approached with the greatest solemnity, not only in the performances but also in the photography, the music and the very looks on people's faces.
