The Omen [2006] (DVD)

When US ambassador Robert Thorn’s wife goes into labour, the couple’s delight turns to tragedy when the baby subsequently dies. Whilst struggling to cope with his grief, Thorn is approached by the hospital priest, who advises him that there has been another tragedy in the hospital. A young baby has been orphaned, his mother having died in child birth with nobody left to look after him. The priest persuades Thorn that God will forgive a small deception and that Thorn should adopt the baby as his own, telling his wife nothing of their real child’s death. Unable to tell his wife about their loss, he agrees to the priest’s proposal and the couple raise the child as their ...

Introduction --------------- Born on the 6th day of the 6th month at the 6th hour, the Son of Satan enters the world. Adopted by a US Ambassador, young Damian Thorne slowly begins to realise his powers, giving an all new meaning to the phrase “terrible toddler” Remake or Rehash? ------------------------ A remake of the 1976 horror classic The Omen, this film falls into the same category as Gus Van Sant’s remake of Hitchcock’s Psycho. The original film was so good that any attempt at a remake has to do something completely different with the source material to make it a worthwhile venture. Sadly, director John Moore (Flight of the Phoenix, ...

I look forward to watching movies that are supposed to be scary because they very seldom do tend to actually be mildly creepy let alone scary. As silly as it may seem I did actually have quite high hopes for this film because a work colleague had told me how it scared him silly so I thought excellent I will give it a go. Anyway me and my scary film pal my sister decided to sit down and watch it and I have to say the Omen 666 is an absolutely appalling film which tries to be scary and fails, and then it tries to be entertaining and fails. It is basically a failure of a film. ----- The Film: The film begins by introducing us to Robert ...