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Summary: THE EXORCIST IS SO MUCH SCARIER
Review: And that's saying a lot! This film is definately a scary movie! Ver scary, unbelievably scary. It is so good. Scares me each time I think about it. I also recommend Rosemary's Baby along with this. While this is superior to Rosemary's baby(which is also extremely scary) it pales in comparison to The Exorcist. Just wanted to clear all that up.
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Summary: SCARY!!
Review: This is a really scary movie. Me and my friends watched it, and it was on our minds for weeks! This is very scary! Awesome! Also recommended is The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby. Rent or buy all 3 of them and watch them in this order: Rosemary's Baby, The Omen, and The Exorcist. Turn out the lights and get by yourself and prepare for one heck of a night!
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Summary: Great!
Review: While this film doesn't even compare to The Exorcist or The Other (1972), it is still one of the scariest movies ever made! Not for people who just like gore and men in mask. While I love those films, I more open minded and appreciate all horror. This is one of the greatest. Has some pretty good sequels, but the 4th one [is weak]! Definately see this psychological film if you are into that. If you just want to get scared and not have to think, rent Halloween, The Exorcist(The Version You've Never Seen), Nightmare on Elm Street, The Amityville Horror, or The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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Summary: SCARY!
Review: This movie is very scary. Scary sound track and everything. Great acting, and authentic scares! This is great! One of the scariest movies ever made!
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Summary: Scary!!!
Review: This is a great psychological Horror movie. Definately one of the scariest movies ever made! It's about these parents who real child is dies, and the Mr. Thorn Decides to adopt a boy without his wife knowing. Now Years later, weird and bizzar happenings are a foot, and a priest has informed Mr. Thorn that his adopted son could be the son of the devil, or The Anti-Christ! This is great, has two decent sequels, but the 4th one sucks. This is much better than Rosemary's Baby or The Seventh Sign. This isn't some idiotic slasher film, so those looking for a good horror movie should get this. It's good. Watch it alone without the lights, and make it the perfect atmosphere to get scared. The Biblical version is scarier though.
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Summary: 666--The Mark Of The Beast; THE OMEN--The Mark Of A Classic
Review: One of the most commercially and artistically successful horror films of modern times, the 1976 thriller THE OMEN cagily rode the wave of Satanic thrillers spawned by ROSEMARY'S BABY and THE EXORCIST. Indeed these three films form a devilish cinematic trinity of terror. Although often compared to THE EXORCIST, which it followed by two and a half years, THE OMEN differs from that 1973 shocker by being propelled more by narrative invention than by elaborately disgusting special effects. It is a very disturbing film even to this day, more than a quarter century since its June 1976 release.Gregory Peck and Lee Remick lend an air of respectability as the U.S. ambassador to England and his wife who adopt a baby boy named Damien, following what would appear at first to be a miscarriage. Five years later, however, things take a rapid and bizarre turn. Damien's nanny (Holly Palance) hangs herself during the child's birthday party; and not long after, she is replaced by a Satanic nanny (Billie Whitelaw) and a vicious mastif dog. A seemingly manic priest (Patrick Troughton) gives Peck scriptural warnings about Damien, which Peck disbelieves; not long after, Troughton is impaled by a church spire during a storm. Only when a journalist (David Warner) shows him pictures in which these horrible events seem to have a connection does Peck begin to realize that the child he has may not even be real. His suspicions are heightened when Remick suffers a suspicious fall at home and is laid up in bed. And later on, when Whitelaw engineers her death, he comes to realize that Damien is in fact the Antichrist (Devil's Child) as foretold in the Book of Revelations. An exorcist (Leo McKern) tells him he must kill Damien in a church, but his conscience won't let him; and only after Warner is killed in the film's infamous decapitation scene does Peck attempt to go through with it. The result is a suspenseful and disquieting conclusion. Brilliantly directed by then first-timer Richard Donner (who later made SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE and LETHAL WEAPON) and ingeniously scripted by David Seltzer, THE OMEN was, like ROSEMARY'S BABY and THE EXORCIST before it, a very controversial movie amongst the religious Right in America for its alleged advocation of worshippers of Satan. Such is hardly the case for either three movies, of course; and the controversy only helped boost their box office might. THE OMEN, for instance, made for just over $2 million, has since grossed close to sixty million dollars. The reasons for this are clear. Peck and Remick, fine actors both, are highly credible as the parents of a child they don't know anything about. Harvey Stephens is chilling as Damien, as is Whitelaw as his sinister nanny. Warner is also good as the journalist. As mentioned before, THE OMEN is more a matter of plot than of shocking effects. The decapitation scene, however, is still quite horrific and gruesome after all these years; and Troughton's impalement is just as jarring. All of this is elevated further by Jerry Goldsmith's sinister and Oscar-winning choral/orchestral score, which sounds like a combination of many different elements; Gregorian chants, Berlioz, Stravinsky, Bernard Herrmann, and even Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana." Although followed by three increasingly ludicrous sequels, THE OMEN is still a highly-charged horror masterpiece at a time when horror films were still made with terrifying an audience, as opposed to mortifying them. If classic horror is your bag, THE OMEN is as good a place as any to start.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: My 3rd horror movie. I first saw Stephen King's It back in 1990 and it scared me silly. I took a while for me to get over it then I saw The Others. I had the courage to watch scary movies again, so I rented this cause I liked the cover. It was scary! The sound track is really awesome, but it pales in comparison to The Exorcist, but blows Rosemary's Baby out of the water. This is a very good story, great acting, some shocks, lots of scares, lots of psychological scares and thrills, and a very scary soundtrack. This is a good one. The Biblical version is alot scarier though. In this one a few people get killed. It the Biblical version most everone gets killed! This one is very good, and stays somewhat true to the Biblical version, and is the best anti-christ movie ever made! Rent it, Buy it, See it!
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Summary: "It's All for You, Damien!"
Review: 1976 spawned two horror classics: Brian DePalma's "Carrie" and "The Omen." The latter film is one third of the "trinity" of the antichrist movies which also includes "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Exorcist." While "The Omen" lacks the subtlety of "Rosemary's Baby" and some of the intensity of "The Exorcist," it's still a pretty creepy and engaging affair. Gregory Peck and Lee Remick play Robert and Katherine Thorn who, it is later revealed, are the "parents" of who turns out to be the son of Satan. "The Omen" can get over the top, but it works wonderfully as a thriller that will no doubt tap religious nerves. Even better, the music, composed by Academy Award winner Jerry Goldsmith, underscores the film's tension. Though slightly flawed, "The Omen" is a landmark in horror that shouldn't be ignored.
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Summary: A Genuine Horror Classic
Review: Comparing THE OMEN and THE EXORCIST is like comparing Baseball with Football, so there's really no point. While THE EXORCIST hits you with a traumatic realism, THE OMEN gradually overwhelms you with a deep, lingering dread--both are classics. What I really loved about THE OMEN--and it's mentioned in the DVD's interviews--is that this is not just a horror movie but the tragic story of one man caught up in a future he can't stop. And Gregory Peck plays it perfectly. He was just trying to give his emotionally-fragile wife a child...and everything, quite literally, goes to hell.
The cast was perfect, the direction superb, the music won an Oscar: the film remains one of the great supernatural thrillers of all time.
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Summary: The Omen
Review: This was a great movie. I saw it a few times on American Movie Classics and then bought it on DVD. Gregory Peck gives an excellent performance as the adoptive father of the Anticrist. The little boy who played Damien also did an excdllent job. I was surprised that he didn't go on to act in other films. This is also a great DVD. It offers all sorts of special features and the theatrical trailer. It also has a great soundtrack. If you haven't seen it yet, it's defenately worth a rent.
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