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Summary: Days after I saw this, I couldn't get it out of my head.
Review: "The Omen" is one of the scariest movies I've seen by far. A few days after I saw this movie, I couldn't get the music or the ending out of my head. I won't spoil the ending for those who hadn't seen it, but I will tell you that it is an ending you won't forget. The movie stars Gregory Peck and Lee Remick as a couple living in London, England who adopt a 6-year-old boy who is thought to be the son of Satan. He kills a lot of people by using his powers or his evil smile. He has a number called 666, which is the mark of the Anti-Christ. His parents are unaware at first that he {Damien} is evil, but Robert Thorne {Peck} soon sees and hears many deaths to come and then realizes Damien's true identity. Gregory Peck is always a fine actor, and here he gives one of his most thought-provoking and real performances. His character, Robert Thorne, loves his wife, Kathy {Lee Remick} so much and is worried about her. He has many tender moments with her, and also some moments of terror. There are many moments in this movie that I will never forget. The music is the thing that scares me the most. Jerry Goldsmith won a richly deserved Oscar for his score in 1976. Try to find some time to watch a serious horror movie like this one. I garrantee it will stay with you for a while.
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Summary: Score Tactics, or, How Music can Make or Break a Movie
Review: What do Jaws, Star Wars, and The Omen have in common? It's easy. I dare you, DARE you, not to hum a little music when you start thinking about your favorite scenes in these movies. It's almost impossible isn't it? The musical scores for these three movies are so fresh and effective that they are inseparable from the action on the screen.Jerry Goldsmith won a much-deserved Oscar for his original score on The Omen. It was the only win out of 17 nominations. One of the best segments on the DVD version is Goldsmith's commentary on certain scenes and how the music affected each one. I found it very educational and (if you'll pardon the pun) a revelation. The music is addictive, but think twice before mouthing the words to the title theme: the choir is chanting a High Black Mass in Latin. You would basically be walking around the house hailing Satan in front of your family. Unfortunately, the DVD does not offer a separate musical track, or the option of viewing the movie without music. It would be an interesting experiment, because I feel the score is so good it effectively saves the film from its pedestrian visual style and uninspired acting. Gregory Peck gives the sensational plot much-needed weight, but it seems his face never changes expression throughout the movie. He can even shout without moving his lips. The British actors are better. David Warner (obsessive fashion-challenged photographer) and Billie Whitelaw (evil nanny channeling Dynasty-era Joan Collins) are the most memorable. Another aspect of the DVD I enjoyed was Richard Donner's commentary. He spends most of the time trading one-liners with his editor Stuart Baird on the voice-over track. Great fun, and if you've ever wondered how they made Lee Remick appear to fall from a 20-foot balcony, you will find out if you watch the "making-of" featurette. Once you see how they did it, you'll have a real "duh" moment. I warn you: knowing the trick ruined the scene for me. The Omen DVD edition is slick, well-packaged and rather silly; much like The Omen itself. Put it on the shelf next to your collection of 'Left Behind' books, and keep the nite-lite handy.
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Summary: one of my favrites
Review: this movie is a great movie.i watch it alot .i think the whole omen collection is great .some horror fans might not like this movie because you really got to listen to what there saying and u got to understand what there talking about.i think everybody thats reading this should buy it or rent because its a good movie
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Summary: Scary and entertaining!
Review: Gregory Peck delivers a smashing performance as Robert Thorn in one of the horror/thriller genre's best films. I wasn't a fan of Gregory Peck until I saw this movie. It is well worth the viewer's time to sit back and watch "The Omen". A few years after Robert Thorn secretly adopts a motherless baby without telling his wife the truth, strange things begin to happen in connection to their young son Damien. It isn't long before Thorn suspects that his son might be the dreaded Anti-Christ.
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Summary: One of the best horror films ever made.
Review: This first entry in the "Omen" series is also the best. If you have ever entertained the possibility that the Devil does exist then, this movie will scare you. The cast is excellent, bringing a great deal of depth to the picture. Stand-outs include Gregory Peck, as Damien's father, David Warner, as a suspicious photographer, and Patrick Troughton, as the doomed Father Brennan. The score, full of Gregorian chants and diabolical choruses, adds a lot to the film's feeling of impending doom. Still powerful after all of these years, "The Omen" is simply one of the best horror films EVER made!
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Summary: Rottweiler madness
Review: Back when this movie came out, nobody knew what those dogs were; now, you couldn't find a 2-year-old who didn't know!
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Summary: NOT JUST FOR THE OLDER HORROR FANS
Review: This movie with out a doubt is one of the best horror movies of all time. Most, nearly all of my friends have never even heard of this movie. They are the kind of people that only watch the Screams, or I Know What You Did Last Summer. But this film can be enjoyed by any fan of horror a MUST SEE you won't be dissappointed.
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Summary: The Devil Has His Due!
Review: Hollywood takes a big budget leap into expensive horror film's with 1976's "The Omen." Richard Donner, a very capable and prolific director, helms the goings on and throws in many carefully executed deaths. More than that, though, the film possesses very sympathetic characters in the form of Robert and Cathy Thorne, wonderfully played by Peck and Remick. We care for these people as all these weird occurances bombard them. Because of the rampant evil effecting them, the viewer begins to want that evil destroyed. Unfortunately, the does not occur, setting the stage for the enevitable sequel - which wasn't bad itself. David Warner, Leo McKern (in an uncredited role), and Patrick Troughton are also a part of the macabre festivities. Billie Whitelaw is terrifying as the-less-than-Mary Poppins nanny. Besides the visuals of the film, it also features Jerry Goldsmith's Oscar-deserving and winning score.
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Summary: Eerie, even in the current days of eyecandy
Review: I just rented this and watched it tonight, wanting to see if the film still held some kick to this day. It still did. Albeit that the pacing can be a bit slow throughout, the general feeling of watching genuine evil still manages to get to me, even now watching it at 29. Something about that smirk... the very end with the smirk fading into Revelations 13:18 still gives me chills. Though it doesn't move fast enough and doesn't have enough CGI to really satisfy many in this day and age, it's still a good horror movie and well deserving of being labeled an all time great. The sequel isn't terrible, but the third and forth are scarier than the first, just not for the right reasons :) Pick this up, and also pick up the Changling with George C. Scott for good, genuine scares.
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Summary: The Ominous Omen
Review: To this day this is still a powerful horror film that unfortunately lost some of it's credibility with the next 2 or 3 sequels! It was not only a film that conveyed so much horror by its special f/x but also the sheer terror emitted from a child ( Satan's son). Not since a movie like The Village of the Damned did a film like The Omen terrify me as a kid. Gregory Peck and Lee Remick turn in fine and frantic performances as the child's soon-to-be-victimized "parents". For any die-hard movie collectors of the horror genre The Omen is a keeper! Evil can definitely take any shape or form (even in the most innocents of innocence)...
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