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The Omen (Special Edition, Widescreen)

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Kathy Thorn (Lee Remick) really wanted a child. Unfortunately, she lost her baby during the delivery. Not to worry! She's unconscious and knows nothing of the stillbirth. Her husband Robert (Gregory Peck) has just been offered another child by a priest. Robert accepts the infant boy, never telling his wife that he's not hers. Big mistake! They name the kid Damien. Little Damien starts growing up, and weird things begin happening! His nanny hangs herself on his 5th birthday. A new, creepy nanny named Mrs. Baylock moves in, seemingly from out of nowhere. A strange priest starts following Robert, talking about crazy prophetic stuff. Damien goes berzerk at a church. The baboons at the zoo go berzerk after catching a mere glimpse of Damien. A rotweiler (aka: devil doggy) is brought in by Mrs. Baylock to guard Damien. Ah yes, typical family life! Meanwhile, Robert meets a photographer (David Warner) who has some odd pictures to show him. The two join forces to get to the bottom of Damien's true identity. This leads to unexplained deaths and bizarre coincidences. Just who is Damien's real daddy? Will anyone survive Damien's teen years?? A definite classic of evil dread...

1976's "The Omen" has always been my favorite horor film of all time. I found it more frightening than "Halloween", "Friday The Thirteenth" or even "The Excocist", simply because it does not frighten you with blood and gore (despite bloodshed every now and then). It is meant to frighten you with the plot, which, while fictional, seems disturbingly realistic.

"The Omen" stars Gregory Peck and Lee Remick as Robert and Kathy Thorn, wealthy political figures who have everything they want... except a child. When Kathy unknowingly gives birth to a stillborn baby, Robert quickly adopts another child in place of the real child, which Kathy apparently never finds out about. Young Damien seems like the perfect child, but strange mortalities soon arise when Damien turns five. First, his nanny hangs herself at his 5th birthday. Next, a priest who tries to watn Peck about his son's birth mother is impaled by a lightning rod. These strange deaths attract the attention of a photographer, ably played by the grossly underrated David Warner. Together, Warner and Peck go looking for Damien's real mother. A new nanny, played with fervor by Billie Whitelaw, comes along, knowing who Damien really is. Remick's character soon suffers a miscarriage, and she and the photographer both meet an untimely end. Peck receives seven daggers from an aging archeologist named Bugenhagen. Peck then realizes his son's true identity, building up to a terrifying closing sequence.

Overall, "The Omen" is a horror masterpiece. The acting is superb, Richard Donner directs exceellently and Jerry Goldsmith's score is breathtakingly scary (I'm still haunted by the music played in the opening credits). Extras include a making - of documentary and trailers.

I know what people are thinking about this film. I don't want this film anymore. The film of The Omen is pure evil, but the music by Jerry Goldsmith is not. I know what'll happen one of these days, but I don't believe any of these prophesies in the film are true. There is no person like Damien Thorn. All the things in this film are bad as well as my turning to "the dark side of my heart" when I watched this film. This film of The Omen shouldn't have been sould or produced! ever. There is such a thing as the quote "when the jews return to zion"? Come On! What happens in the film isn't real. This film of The Omen is what it is. It is nonsense. There is one true thing about this film... no actualy there is 2 things about this film. 1. I should've been aware of the R rating, and so should've you all. 2. The person who plays the child Damien is a hipocrit. I don't mean to be so negative, but look at this film. This is all one true hipocracy after another. That's why I gave this film a 1 out of 5 star rating. If there is any children amung you! read this review. I hope that whatever I've said about The Omen will warn your children not to rent, watch, or purchase this film.

the original The Omen,with Gregory Peck and Lee Remick,is for me, a
masterpiece of pure terror.possibly the most terrifying film ever
made.Gregory peck stars as Robert Thorne,a high level diplomat and Lee
Remick stars as his wife Katherine.i don't want give anything away
here,but lets just say that Peck is brilliant as the atheist whose
beliefs are challenged until he can no longer deny the truth.but it's
the events leading up to this point which are the focus of the
movie.Lee Remick is great as Thorne's wife.the musical score done by
the late,great Jerry Goldsmith is brilliant,adding a feeling of
foreboding and doom throughout the movie,which sends chills up your
spine.no other movie in recent memory can match The Omen for sheer
terror.it should be noted that The Omen did not rely on gore or
computer effects to achieve this level of terror but rather on pure
psychological suspense and emotion.in my opinion this movie is nothing
short of brilliant. 5+++/5

i did not find good i thoght it would be better

One of the most successful horror films of all time in the mid-70s was "The Omen", starring Gregory Peck & Lee Remick as Mr. and Mrs. Thorne who are desperate to have a child. They adopt and decide to name their little boy Damien. Little do they know that Damien is more than what he appears to be. A sweet child on the outside, but on the inside all hell is about to break out! After numerous "accidental" deaths, Robert Thorne (Peck) investigates in order to find a solution to Damien's evil powers. And that's where I'm going to stop cause I don't wanna spoil it for you. Just watch it! And be sure to also see "Damien: Omen II" (1978), it's a lot better than this one!

...But its no Exorcist. Gets three stars from me for decent cinematography, Gregory Peck's performance and the scene with the mad baboons in the zoo attacking Damien and Lee Remick. The score by Jerry Goldsmith whose music I usually love is just awful. The direction is so so. Richard Donner still has not been able to top his work in Superman and the first two Lethal Weapon movies.

I consider "The Omem" the third of the "Great 3 Horror Films" of all time. The other two being "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Exorcist." Like the other two films, "The Omen" is a religiously based horror film. It's based on the coming of the anti-Christ.

THe story-line revolves around a US ambassador to Great Britain whose wife gives birth to a supposed stillborn baby, so out of desperation, he secretly adopts another newborn. The baby is normal until his fifth birthday when his nanny hangs herself at his birthday party *in a very disturbing scene.* Another nanny takes her place who happens to be the nanny from Hell *literally!* Death ensues in some of the goriest death scenes of the time period. The film closes with one of the most downer endings of any other film.

Highly recommended horror film. The cast, story, and haunting musical score work together to create a truly creepy and disturbing film.

Even though "The Omen" spawned countless copycats and its own less than perfect sequels, it is one of the eeriest and most suspenseful films of this genre. Director Richard Donner uses extremely moody and malevolent atmospherics to form the backdrop for this tale of the birth of the Anti-Christ. One of the scariest and most disturbing is the death of Patrick Troughton, who plays the errant priest who tries to warn Robert Thorne of his disastrous son. The wind howling in the park, the intensity of Troughton's manic performance and the final impaling is outstandingly filmed. Other classic moments: the look on Lee Remick's face when she realizes what her nanny has done; the terror in Damien's fear of going to church; the attack of the baboons in the drive through park; the awful moment when Remick tumbles off the second story of her house, and even more in her fall from the hospital window; Billie Whitelaw's animalistic attack on Peck to preserve the Antichrist; and of course, the awful fate awaiting David Warner via a plate glass. And the scene in the graveyard with its music and ferocious barking Rotweiler's---wow, this is suspense at its finest.
Jerry Goldsmith's Oscar winning score is perfect, and the cast is superb. Gregory Peck and Lee Remick bring a professional dignity to their performances; never overacting, never underacting; their class is evident and it's a shame we've lost these two brilliant performers.
The Omen is a thriller I have high on my list of favorite "horror" movies.

The whole plot of THE OMEN revolves around the idea of the anti-Christ growing up and living amongst us, unknown to anyone until it's too late. The premise of the film is somewhat interesting, and was a farely new concept when the movie was released, but has become common place nowadays. The "scariness" of THE OMEN isn't in blood and guts, but in the shock value: we barely see a nanny hang herself outdoors from a window, but it is shocking; we've been told that Damien's mother was a jackal so when his adopted father searches the grave, we shouldn't be shocked, but we are; the newspaper photographer already showed us how he would die, but when it happens it is a bit shocking. The film really is dated now, but it contains a couple of gems, mainly the soundtrack and Gregory Peck. The movie probably isn't as spooky as it was originally, but it's still an interesting film to watch.