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01/26/06
The Omen (1976)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:26
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7/10
Runtime: 4 hrs 26 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: American ambassador Robert Thorn and his lovingly dedicated wife are expecting a child. But when the infant is stillborn a mysterious Italian priest convinces the diplomat to clandestinely adopt... [More]
Starring: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw
Director: Richard Donner
Reviews for The Omen
Top CriticNo review available.
02/26/04
... a slick, polished, and professional thriller that combines an intriguing mystery with periodic eruptions of bloody violence ...
07/04/08
A menacing film about the principalities and powers at work in the universe that defy logic
01/18/04
The 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.
10/14/07
As long as movies like The Omen are merely scaring us, they're fun in a portentous sort of way.
10/23/04
Top CriticA member of the Exorcist family, it is a dreadfully silly film, which is not to say that it is totally bad.
05/09/05
Top CriticGoldsmith's score took the film to a level horror films generally never attained in the 1970s.
06/20/08
A bald-faced lamprey hitching its razor-tipped maw on the chassis of The Exorcist, The Omen's Sunday school parable of gothic Cathsploitation comes twice as thick and thrice as pious.
06/21/06
Preposterous, 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.
10/31/01
Influenced by the success of The Exorcist, this film, well acted by Gregory Peck and Lee remick, takes the horror genre one step further and instead of a girl being possessed by the Devil, we have a boy who's the Antichrist.
06/05/06
Damian just isn't ready to play with the grown-ups.
04/24/06
...fares a whole lot better than its 2006 remake...
10/31/08
A truly frightening chiller. A definite classic of the horror genre.
09/21/05
...it's just a really fun horror film, filled with joyously manipulative undertones of Christian fear that we may or may not believe in.
01/01/00
...a good, tight, little horror shocker and one of the best of the apocalyptic genre.
01/01/00
The Omen manages to have its shocks look sensible and seem convincing.
01/01/00
A classic example of 'horror-light' - a movie that succeeds in scaring its audience witless without using most of the stock accoutrements of standard horror movies.
03/16/04
Creepy horror classic that's just plain fun to watch.
01/01/00
Damien looks like a mini Angus Young -- gotta love it!
06/14/06
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