The Omen (1976)

I loved it. Loved the music. I hope to have The Omen theme at my funeral. Loved part II as well. Just a great film. Classic.

It scared my siblings enough that they checked my scalp for 666 once I was born.

the Omen gave me nightmares for weeks.

It’s all for you!

Great movie. And I'm still haunted by that person drowning under the ice in part II.

It's entertaining but it's not as scary as I thought it would be. Billie Whitelaw was fantastic and appropriately creepy.

I also agree Part II is very good. Part III should have been better although Sam Neill does the best he can with a terrible script.

Of course, the music in all three films is superb. RIP Jerry Goldsmith.

I LOVED it. It's still one of my favorite movies. When I was in England we rented a car and went to see the house they used in the movie. It was empty. We snuck onto the property and looked all around

Its biggest freakout moment is near the beginning, with the suicide of Damien's nanny, and then it never gets anywhere near so scary again.

Where the hell is that zoo where all of the apes go haywire at Damien and his mother in the car?

one of my faves

achieved the scares without the cheap sentiment and fx of the exorcist...

[quote]Great movie. And I'm still haunted by that person drowning under the ice in part II.

Considering all the novel ways of killing people in those movies, that's the scene that sticks with me too. The way he's just under the ice and everyone can see him, but no one can get to him seriously freaked me out as a kid, although the elevator cable coming down and cutting the guy in two came a close second.

Both, OP. It was considered to be capitalizing on The Exorcist but respected for not blatantly ripping it off and being very good in its own right, as opposed to Exorcist II afterwards.

I was 13 years old and couldn't wait to see it! I begged my older sister to take me to the local mall theater the week it opened. It did not disappoint! But the creepiest thing happened. When we walked out of the theater and to our car, someone had left a religious pamphlet under the windshield wiper.

My next memory could be for the funniest lines you heard in a movie theater thread. When Lee Remick fell out of the hospital window and crashed onto the car, still bandaged and with a body cast from her previous accident, I asked my sister, "Is she dead?" My sister looked at me and responded, "I should think so!".

The sequel really wasn't very good, except for Lee Grant screaming, "DAMIAN!!!!!"

This was a brilliant horror flick. I think if one was lucky enough to see it in his youth, it still transports you back to that innocence, when you were afraid of the devil, or the possibility of a Satan! I agree two is even creepier in a more diabolical way. When Damian causes his brother's death it is quite disturbing. As R5 exclaims what a horrid way to drown.

SPOILER ALERT!!

Remember the end? He grows up to become POTUS. Hmm, remind you of anybody?????

Honestly R15, he reminds me of Jared! Another irony is Jared owns a newspaper, and 666 Park! Yikes!

Baron is actually Damian

All of them are evil. All of them. Old movies come true.

The scene where he peels his mom's fingers off the 2nd story stairway and she falls to her death always gets me!

Beware the creepy children on tricycles!

bump

Thorn and Trump both start wit "T's" and both have five letters! Argh!

[quote]Where the hell is that zoo where all of the apes go haywire at Damien and his mother in the car?

Windsor Safari Park.

R19, I don't think he actually peeled her fingers off. He just watches her as she loses her grip and falls.

The remake was HORRIBLE! Julia Stiles was way too young and Liev Schrieber was gross.

I think they just wanted something to release on 06-06-06.

Back to the original, the " It's all for you" scene still gives me the chills.

It's a funny mix of cheesy and good. There are elements that are really well done, but then there are complete misfires, like Lee Remick's demise. I guess my feeling is that the tone is wobbly, moving from A picture to B movie depending on the scene. The score is effective and the cast gives it pedigree. The other set piece that's a groaner involves David Warner's demise.

The puncturing of the priest was the most elegant and creepy death. The nanny's end was the most upsetting.

Wasn't Damien borne from a jackal?

Doesn't Peck go to a graveyard, open a stone topped casket and discover the bones of the jackal?

The David Warner decapitation is still terrific. Would be done today with unconvincing CGI. As for the priest getting impaled, I loved it, but I always wonder why he just stood there watching it coming toward him?

R30, you act like he was in his right mind. You did see his room, right?

It's all relative, R30. I've always imagined that at least half the posters here on DataLounge have rooms like that.

Me too R30. Run! Run!

Oh come on the devil as a child. Now between the two I chose the Exorcists. Lots of Catholic theme in that one - but when little Regan is possessed and tells her mother to lick her twat it's awesome.

Can you just imagine family get together affairs after the possession. "Hey Regan, remember the time you told me to lick your twat?"

The Exorcist II: Heretic is far superjkr than both films, OP!

superior, jeez

Great film. Scary with an actual story line. The kids a right cunt too. Horror films these days are not scary. Lazy plots and crap acting. And the hole horror prom night thing is just boring. Rosemary’s Baby is another favourite of mine.

Alwys found lee remick vanilla. Yet she was in so many good movies. Odd

The similiarities between Damien and Trump are astounding.

Yes, he was born of a jackel.

Anyone else see the similarities between Thorn Industries controlling the world's food supply and Monsanto trying to get the rights to every seed?

*jackal

Btw, I preferred Mia as the creepy nanny, because it didn't take much acting on her part. Her face in the blood tube/air bubble scene was quite unsettling.

This is what happens when you adopt children

Scared the hell out of me. Great show.

The music is tremendously effective. The only score that almost equals it is from Jaws.

Candyman has a fairly chilling score, too.

That son of a jackal!

My parents (foolishly) took me to see it when I was 10 or 11 (?). I couldn’t sleep for weeks. I guess that means it was a “good” movie.

R17 bash Trump all you want! But let's leave his kids out of it

Unless you're conflating Trump's kids with the Antichrist, you're on the wrong thread, numbnuts.

R47 is a Trump TROLL. You have been blocked, whore.

Straw man argument/attack.

Was Barron borne of a jackal?

Tell that to Amy Carter r47. In the White House even pets are fair game.

Couldn't Satan have just made some of these people's hearts just stop beating? Why did he have to impale them, decapitate them, hang them, etc?

R9, it was Windsor Safari Park.