
Robert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. They are happily married and he is the US Ambassador to Great Britain, but they want nothing more than to have children. When Katharine has a stillborn child, Robert is approached by a priest at the hospital who suggests that they take a healthy newborn whose mother has just died in childbirth. Without telling his wife he agrees. After relocating to London, strange events - and the ominous warnings of a priest - lead him to beli... (Full plot summary below)
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Robert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. They are happily married and he is the US Ambassador to Great Britain, but they want nothing more than to have children. When Katharine has a stillborn child, Robert is approached by a priest at the hospital who suggests that they take a healthy newborn whose mother has just died in childbirth. Without telling his wife he agrees. After relocating to London, strange events - and the ominous warnings of a priest - lead him to believe that the child he took from that Italian hospital is evil incarnate.
Leave your thoughts about The Omen.
| The TelegraphAnna BaddeleyMuch 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. |
| ESplatterSteve Biodrowski... a slick, polished, and professional thriller that combines an intriguing mystery with periodic eruptions of bloody violence ... |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaThe fairly sedate pace and tone may be a bit dry for today's viewer, but by the film's disturbing climax and simple, superbly creepy final image, one appreciates how well it helped build the suspense. |
| eFilmCritic.comScott WeinbergCreepy horror classic that's just plain fun to watch. |
| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.Stands alone as a wonderful horror thriller. |
| EmpireDavid ParkinsonThe performance of Harvey Stephens as the young Damien has invested the film with the chill of genuine credibility. |
| Movie MetropolisJohn J. Puccio...a good, tight, little horror shocker and one of the best of the apocalyptic genre. |
| Flick FilosopherMaryAnn JohansonPreposterous, sure. But as Apocalyptic religious fantasy, it's far more chills-inducing than, say, the hilariously earnest The Omega Code or even the convoluted and incomprehensible source material itself. |
| PopMattersBill GibronAll references to prophecy and the Antichrist aside, The Omen achieves its horrors the old fashioned way. |
| The New York TimesRichard EderIt 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. |