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Damien: Omen II

Opinions? I've never seen it.

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by Anonymousreply 96April 6, 2021 3:26 PM

It was OK. Not as good as the original. The only thing I remember is a woman getting attacked by crows.

by Anonymousreply 1March 11, 2019 5:08 AM

Wonderfully camp. Watched it several times.

by Anonymousreply 2March 11, 2019 5:12 AM

[quote]r1 The only thing I remember is a woman getting attacked by crows.

That was actress Elizabeth Shepherd. She was also in a Vincent Price movie.

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by Anonymousreply 3March 11, 2019 5:13 AM
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by Anonymousreply 4March 11, 2019 5:14 AM

The crow scene was hilarious for what happens after.

by Anonymousreply 5March 11, 2019 5:15 AM

I thought Damien was a good looking teen, also his cousin Mark

by Anonymousreply 6March 11, 2019 5:16 AM

I thought all 3 were decent.

by Anonymousreply 7March 11, 2019 5:20 AM

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMIOOOOOOOOON!

by Anonymousreply 8March 11, 2019 5:24 AM

^tee-hee

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by Anonymousreply 9March 11, 2019 5:26 AM

I never laughed so much in my life!

Lee Grant as the godmother to Satan's spawn is hilarious!

by Anonymousreply 10March 11, 2019 5:28 AM

For you Designing Women fans:

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by Anonymousreply 11March 11, 2019 5:56 AM

Is this the one with a naked grown up Damien writhing on the floor?

by Anonymousreply 12March 11, 2019 6:08 AM

I liked it. I mean, the Omen movies are kind of ridiculous and preposterous. But they're extremely well made. And the Jerry Goldsmith scores are brilliant and iconic.

I thought the actor who played Damien did an excellent job. Sinister but charming.

by Anonymousreply 13March 11, 2019 6:38 AM

Definitely a fun movie to watch.

by Anonymousreply 14March 11, 2019 6:45 AM

I think it’s weird now how so many people think of the 1976 original as some kind of horror classic nowadays. It was always regarded a sort of limp, two-and-a-half-stars (out of four) misfire by critics and most horror fans when I was growing up in the 80s. I always cock an eyebrow whenever I read someone write something like, “Horror movies these days just aren’t what they used to be. Check out The Texas Chain Saw Masacre, Halloween, The Exorcist, THE OMEN...”

The Shining is another one. I distinctly recall it not getting very favorable reviews in the movie guide books, like Leonard Maltin’s or the Video Movie Guide by Mick Martin & Marsha Porter.

by Anonymousreply 15March 11, 2019 6:53 AM

[quote]Is this the one with a naked grown up Damien writhing on the floor?

Are you thinking of Sam Neill in Omen III: The Final Conflict?

Does anyone have a link to this hot nudity?

by Anonymousreply 16March 11, 2019 7:00 AM

Watch it, OP.

It is hilarious!

by Anonymousreply 17March 11, 2019 7:01 AM

[quote]r15 The Shining is another one. I distinctly recall it not getting very favorable reviews

That movie is so damn boring. And the cast is DRAB as all hell.

by Anonymousreply 18March 11, 2019 7:05 AM

I agree, R18.

by Anonymousreply 19March 11, 2019 7:11 AM

The Omen and The Shining are both horror classics.

by Anonymousreply 20March 11, 2019 7:13 AM

I had a crush on Damien and Cousin Mark when I was 11 years old.

by Anonymousreply 21March 11, 2019 7:17 AM

I was surprised the guy who played the second Damien is straight because he seemed like a bit of a prissy queen in the movie.

by Anonymousreply 22March 11, 2019 10:11 AM

I’ve watched it multiple times

by Anonymousreply 23March 11, 2019 10:41 AM

Wow, Barron is growing up fast.

by Anonymousreply 24March 11, 2019 10:48 AM

The confrontation of Damian and his teacher rattling off historical figures and their dates of passing seemed riveting at the time

by Anonymousreply 25March 11, 2019 10:55 AM

The Omen is a classic, compared to the retreaded crap they put on movie screens today.

I mean, did you actually sit all the way through Hereditary?

by Anonymousreply 26March 11, 2019 2:58 PM

Yes, I did, R26, and it was good up until that absolutely ridiculous ending.

by Anonymousreply 27March 11, 2019 3:18 PM

I actually read this book in jr. high when I found a copy at a thrift store. It was a fun, quick read.

by Anonymousreply 28March 11, 2019 6:35 PM

One scary scene, someone trapped under ice, when I saw that as a kid it terrified me. But it's not as good as the first which had a demonic nanny, the brilliant Billie Whitelaw, a doomed priest, gothic goings on in Israel etc. And Lee Remick getting pushed off a balcony by her beloved tot.

by Anonymousreply 29March 11, 2019 6:54 PM

R29 The beheading by a sheet of glass really bothered me. It’s one of the few horror movie scenes that ever deeply disturbed me.

by Anonymousreply 30March 11, 2019 6:56 PM

Fun fact: “Mark” is the son of actress Michael Learned (THE WALTONS).

by Anonymousreply 31March 11, 2019 7:04 PM

The first one has one of the great genuinely scary moments in film: the nanny killing herself off the roof of the Thorns' mansion after saying, "It;s all for you, Damien" ecstatically. And it has Billie Whitelaw, who is great. But the problem with all the Omen films is that it's the same structure over and over again: someone slowly learns the truth about who Damien is, and then meets with an extremely gruesome death. The whole point of the films is so we can see each death and say, "Oooh! Cool! That was particularly disgusting!" It's a lot like giallo in that way.

The upshot of Elizabeth Shepherd being attacked by the raven is pretty hilarious, as is Meschach Taylor's end with the elevator cable (depicted in the photo above). You can't even take those deaths seriously.

by Anonymousreply 32March 11, 2019 7:04 PM

R32 I never found the nanny thing scary. The direction of the original movie overall is eerie though.

by Anonymousreply 33March 11, 2019 7:07 PM

[quote] [R32] I never found the nanny thing scary.

You're rare in that, then.

by Anonymousreply 34March 11, 2019 7:08 PM

For really terrible, try the Omen IV, a TV movie in which Faye Grant and Michael Woods adopt a female antichrist.

by Anonymousreply 35March 11, 2019 7:09 PM

During that ice scene, one of the boys, does a somersault while running to help. It's so obvious he's trying to stand out & look like a real action hero. It makes me laugh every time I see it.

The whole movie is rather silly, but still fun to watch. 70's horror is the best.

R31 "Mark" is also responsible for those terrible eHarmony commercials.

by Anonymousreply 36March 11, 2019 7:15 PM

The first film was slightly campy. The second one was an all out campfest The ending with bad acting from Lee Grant and Bill Holden was Razzy worthy.

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by Anonymousreply 37March 11, 2019 7:17 PM

To be honest, I'm surprised they haven't tried remaking this.

by Anonymousreply 38March 11, 2019 8:38 PM

The trailer!

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by Anonymousreply 39March 11, 2019 8:46 PM

I liked part 2 better. I was very attracted to Damien when I was a young gayling.

by Anonymousreply 40March 11, 2019 8:48 PM

Jonathan Scott-Taylor, who played Damien in this one, stopped acting almost immediately afterward and his whereabouts are unknown.

There are a lot of creepy people online looking for him.

by Anonymousreply 41March 11, 2019 9:14 PM

[quote]To be honest, I'm surprised they haven't tried remaking this.

Which one? THE OMEN had a shitty remake featuring Julia Stiles, Liev Schreiber, and Mia Farrow. That was more than enough fuckery. 🤮

by Anonymousreply 42March 11, 2019 10:27 PM

R42, I remember the somewhat clever ad campaign for the remake of The Omen because they released it on 06/06/06. I'm surprised they haven't remade Damien: Omen II.

by Anonymousreply 43March 11, 2019 10:31 PM

It's worth checking out for the fantastic Jerry Goldsmith score and Sylvia Sydney as campy old Aunt Marion. Cardiac arrest by a crow!!

by Anonymousreply 44March 11, 2019 10:39 PM

R16: thank you - yes that’s what I was thinking of.

by Anonymousreply 45March 11, 2019 10:52 PM

Agree with r37 that O2 is just straight out camp but still quite watchable. I remember that there’s a party Damien and all of cadet buddies are attending, and all the other teen boys look on sourly as every girl in the room is crowded around Damien, who looks like he should be holding a snifter of port.

by Anonymousreply 46March 11, 2019 11:00 PM

I had the hots for Damien too! I imagined homoerotic overtones in the scene where he ends up killing Mark.

by Anonymousreply 47March 11, 2019 11:12 PM

We would "sing" the creepy choir type music on the playground in grade school and get into trouble for doing so. The teachers knew what we were doing.

by Anonymousreply 48March 11, 2019 11:13 PM

The kid who played Damien in part two was good but again kinda gay.

by Anonymousreply 49March 11, 2019 11:16 PM

Love the different estates/homes! Love that Damien doesn't seem remotely scary - in fact, he is charming and I think aunt Marion came off as a huge bitch. Love the campy deaths. Creepiest characters are the pervy guys watching over Damien: white afro guy and lance henrickson. Also, Damien...gay or just fey brit? Both?

by Anonymousreply 50March 11, 2019 11:18 PM

The kid who played Damien played a hot prep school bully in Tales of the Unexpected.

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by Anonymousreply 51March 11, 2019 11:19 PM

In the first one, I always loved the story of how they got the baboons to react. They took the alpha baboon into the car and filmed the reaction of the rest of the group.

by Anonymousreply 52March 11, 2019 11:24 PM

R52, was that zoo a real place, btw? With people driving in cars and the wild animals roaming all around them?

by Anonymousreply 53March 11, 2019 11:25 PM

I'm not sure, R53. I assume it's a place similar to what Great Adventure used to have. I recall going when I was a kid in the 80s. I think they used to drug the lions when the cars went through. I always recall them sleeping when we drove through.

by Anonymousreply 54March 11, 2019 11:27 PM

I love the way Lee Grant yells "DAMIEN" at the end.

Though I never understood why she then kills herself.

by Anonymousreply 55March 11, 2019 11:28 PM

She didn't kill herself. He burned her alive.

by Anonymousreply 56March 11, 2019 11:30 PM

Damien kills her by making the boiler explode with his demonic powers.

by Anonymousreply 57March 11, 2019 11:31 PM

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by Anonymousreply 58March 11, 2019 11:32 PM

Why does he kill her?

by Anonymousreply 59March 11, 2019 11:50 PM

R59 He didn't want her to kill the uncle.

by Anonymousreply 60March 11, 2019 11:52 PM

I just don’t get this movie. I mean, it’s so unlikely something like this could ever really happen...

by Anonymousreply 61March 11, 2019 11:53 PM

Love this one. ore than the first! I even have the DVD.

CAMP CLASSIC and great gore.

And its beautifully shot, actually.

I am a huge Lee Grant fan, so it makes it even better.

by Anonymousreply 62March 11, 2019 11:55 PM

Is this the one where some guy was cut in half by falling elevator cables?

by Anonymousreply 63March 12, 2019 12:01 AM

I was sorry that "Ave Satani" (from he first Omen) lost the Best Song Oscar to "Evergreen" (from A Star is Born). It would have been to imagine scores of high school choirs singing it in their Spring Concerts.

by Anonymousreply 64March 12, 2019 12:22 AM

When the doctor gets cut in half, it immediately cuts to a shot of Damien's aunt reading about it in a newspaper and saying how horrible it is - it's a direct copy of the scene in the first movie when the priest is speared with Lee Remick reading about it immediately afterwards (with a photo of the speared priest which I'm sure a British broadsheet would definitely publish on its front page).

by Anonymousreply 65March 12, 2019 12:52 AM

R42 I must have been the only one on the planet who enjoyed the Liev Shrieber / Stiles / Farrow remake. I thought it was a ton of fun. Loved the scene where Mia jumps on Schriebers back like a crazy banshee.

by Anonymousreply 66March 12, 2019 1:34 AM

The remake wasn't terrible but like a lot of remakes it's just kinda dull and pointless.

I thought Mia was good though.

by Anonymousreply 67March 12, 2019 1:49 AM

Hysterical.

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by Anonymousreply 68March 12, 2019 1:57 AM

If he was raised in America by his uncle, why did he still have a strong British accent? In fact, it was even stronger as a teen.

by Anonymousreply 69March 12, 2019 2:36 AM

R68 On the bright side, he would be a fantastic jeopardy contestant.

by Anonymousreply 70March 12, 2019 2:39 AM

R69 Perhaps it was a Madonnaesque affectation.

by Anonymousreply 71March 12, 2019 2:40 AM

R71 Well, his mother WAS a jackal, after all.

by Anonymousreply 72March 12, 2019 3:08 AM

I remember watching it on TV while babysitting: the kids loved it, but I was scared shitless.

by Anonymousreply 73March 12, 2019 3:14 AM

I was only attracted to Damien when I was a kid. Not Mark or anybody else. Maybe it *was* because he gave off a gay vibe that my gayling gaydar picked up on.

by Anonymousreply 74March 12, 2019 3:18 AM

Omg.

by Anonymousreply 75March 12, 2019 3:41 AM

Hands down, the best Damien scene of all the films is the surprise anal scene in Omen 3!

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by Anonymousreply 76March 12, 2019 4:09 AM

I had no idea there was an Omen III. Adult Damien?

by Anonymousreply 77March 12, 2019 6:26 AM

It's not bad r77. It's kind of the same story, though, as the first two. Someone learns about Damien and they are killed in some grisly way. But Sam Neill is very well cast, very sexy and sinister.

It kind of loses its way for me near the end but it's worth checking out.

by Anonymousreply 78March 12, 2019 6:37 AM

R78, thanks. I'll have to check it out.

Well, the original Omen sure scared the heck out of my older brother and sister. When I was a toddler, they kept checking my scalp for the sign of the beast as they claimed I always cried when my parents took us to church. 😂

by Anonymousreply 79March 12, 2019 6:46 AM

I thought Lee Remick was so classy when I saw the original as a kid.

I was like, "Wow, that's a LADY."

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by Anonymousreply 80March 12, 2019 6:50 AM

Damien's hair looks devilish in that last picture.

by Anonymousreply 81March 12, 2019 7:39 AM

The films became increasingly worse: THE OMEN > O II > O III

by Anonymousreply 82March 12, 2019 8:16 AM

Omen 3 suffers from a lack of apocalypse.

by Anonymousreply 83March 12, 2019 3:14 PM

The actor who played Damian was such a smug little shit. Yeah, I guess that' s what they wanted. Regardless, I found him annoying and as we all know his future in film was non-existent.

by Anonymousreply 84March 12, 2019 3:58 PM

Watch your tongue, or the ravens will poke out your eyes! Queue the demon music

by Anonymousreply 85March 14, 2019 3:23 PM

As Lee Grant says in her autobiography, "I SAID YES TO EVERYTHING"!

by Anonymousreply 86March 14, 2019 3:33 PM

He's apparently married but the actor who played Damien seemed kinda gay.

by Anonymousreply 87September 13, 2019 3:28 PM

Loved the crow attacked on the woman. At first it's pretty horrifying but they ruined it by throwing a dummy to smack into the truck and it's hilarious.

by Anonymousreply 88September 13, 2019 3:37 PM

I looked like Omen II Damien when I was a little kid. I had a cousin named Mark too.

When Trump is finally out of office, I'm going to post the last scene of The Final Conflict on all my social media.

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by Anonymousreply 89September 13, 2019 4:08 PM

Chilling, but only because I had been exposed to fundie loons as a child. Ugh. Little did I know at the time I watched it that it was the Drumpf family story!

by Anonymousreply 90September 13, 2019 4:43 PM

I found it kind of trashy. The editing is all over the place and most of the cinematography looks like a TV movie. It's also a complete retread of part 1, they even do the sudden death/immediate cut to front page story about it in the newspaper trick they did in part 1 when the priest dies.

by Anonymousreply 91September 13, 2019 5:10 PM

Was Damien the real-life story of Jared Kushner?

by Anonymousreply 92September 13, 2019 5:50 PM

Very scary at the time, when I was a wee lad of nine years, but doesn't quite hold up. It does seem quite campy as an adult.

by Anonymousreply 93September 13, 2019 6:19 PM

I watched this again the other night and yes, it's ridiculous, but it's so damn entertaining.

I love Joan Hart. Fashion queen. She's so determined to tell William Holden his nephew is the Anti-Christ, yet she has time to put together a fabulous red ensemble. The dummy in her death scene is hilarious.

But I noticed the film ditches the crows halfway through.

Also love when Damien learns he is the Anti-Christ, he runs to the pier and then he's like, "Yeah, whatever".

I love watching Holden and Grant together. He looks so embarrassed but she's like, "yay, I'm getting paid".

by Anonymousreply 94April 6, 2021 6:45 AM

“Who wants a corned beef sandwich?”

by Anonymousreply 95April 6, 2021 7:46 AM

Well, along with The Sentinel and The Manitou, Damien: Omen II is one of my favorite bad 70's possession pictures.

by Anonymousreply 96April 6, 2021 3:26 PM
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