The Omen

Name: The Omen
Genre: Horror
Released: June 25, 1976
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 63
Cast: Billie Whitelaw, David Warner, Gregory Peck, Harvey Stephens, John Stride

1976

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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: June 25, 1976 | R

Starring: Billie Whitelaw, David Warner, Gregory Peck, Harvey Stephens, John Stride, Lee Remick, Martin Benson, Patrick Troughton, Robert Rietty, Tommy Duggan

Summary: Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?

Director: Richard Donner

Genre(s): Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 111 min

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The Telegraph Anna Baddeley

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. Read full review

Time Out London Staff (Not Credited)

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. Read full review

Empire David Parkinson

The performance of Harvey Stephens as the young Damien has invested the film with the chill of genuine credibility. Read full review

Dave Kehr

Ambassador Gregory Peck finds that he's adopted the Antichrist (and he's a cute little feller too), in the slickest of the many demonic thrillers that followed in the wake of The Exorcist. Richard Donner directs more for speed than mood, but there are a few good shocks. Read full review

Richard Eder

It is a dreadfully silly film, which is not to say that it is totally bad. Its horrors are not horrible, its terrors are not terrifying, its violence is ludicrous—which may be an advantage—but it does move along. There is not a great deal of excitement, but we manage to sustain some curiosity as to how things will work out. The Omen is the kind of movie to take along on a long airplane trip. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

This silly and bloody, but at times very effective, horror film takes The Exorcist one step further by concentrating, not on possession by the Devil, but on the Antichrist himself. Read full review

David Ansen

The Omen is a dumb and largely dull movie. No true connoisseur of kitsch will confuse the work of writer David Seltzer and director Richard Donner with the masterpiece of psychic manipulation contrived by William Peter Blatty and William Friedkin in The Exorcist, not to mention what the diabolical Roman Polanski made out of Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby. [12 July 1976, p.69]

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imthenoob

Feb 19, 2020

With a cast lead by Peck and Troughton plus fantastic directing by Donner, The Omen more than exceeds expectations as an all-time great horror movie. If you haven't seen it, You are truly missing out.

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Rick-Cast

Feb 8, 2020

The Omen, directed by Richard Donner (director of The Goonies and Superman) and starring Gregory Peck as Robert Thorn and David Warner as Jennings, is an absolutely fantastic promoter not alone for the supernatural-horror genre, but for the film industry itself. Due to a fabulous duo andThe Omen, directed by Richard Donner (director of The Goonies and Superman) and starring Gregory Peck as Robert Thorn and David Warner as Jennings, is an absolutely fantastic promoter not alone for the supernatural-horror genre, but for the film industry itself. Due to a fabulous duo and supporting cast, all who perform exceptionally, the visually stunning violence is encapsulating and completely unpredictable.

The film is a supernatural, horror film, centered on the Anti-Christ/Spawn of Satan, who takes the form of a human boy. Off the synopsis alone, you know it'll be hard to get it wrong.

The film is renowned for its enlightenment on the number of Satan, the triple-six (666). Based off readings in the bible, The Omen captures the pure essence of supernatural-horror, and, despite the antagonist being a small child, it can become truly terrifying thanks to a great psychotic demon-bodyguard One of the best finale sequences I've yet to witness and should (if it even can) not disappoint… Expand