n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

So there was this time when Satan was more popular in Hollywood than Harvey Weinstein and only slightly less evil. One of the results of this was the Omen Trilogy, of which this was the only good movie. An American Ambassador son dies on June 6, at 6 AM (6-6-6, get it?) and they give him a replacement baby. Later on, Doctor Who tells him that he needs to embrace Jesus! Then he gets impaled on a spike and doesn't regenerate. Meanwhile, the Ambassador teams up with David Warner where they discover the extent of the Satanist plot to put the Anti-Christ in a position to take over the world. It finishes with a confrontation at the end where the Anti-Christ lives to be in two more movies. On a related note, one of the major characters talks about having an abortion. Something a major character in a movie would never talk about today. the movie is quite good and atmospheric, with Jerry Goldsmith's score making things scary without a huge special effects budget. They managed the atmospherics very well.

As Donner tells, either you take it as thriller, either you take it religiously: i notice that the production did choice 1 and got really plagued during shooting (the featurette about it is totally scary!)... Me, i take choice 2 and as an adult today, the movie still disturbs me; thus you can imagine how i felt when i saw it as a kid!! I have always believed that dark forces torment us and that we need all our faith to get through! In all cases, the movie is an exceptional piece with all things neatly done: the European setting, the casting, the music and the kicking directing! The story never lets the tension down and rather gradually gets more and more heavy! I see that a remake has been done but i don't understand the reason as this one hasn't lost its power and nobody can take the seat of big caring Gregory, serious Warner and nasty governess... At the end, this movie is for ma as good (or as evil) as the other similar movie that upsets me: Prince of Darkness as you can really feel the cold hand of devil...

At six o'clock on the sixth of June two children are born in Rome; one is born to the wife of American diplomat Robert Thorn but dies soon after birth, the other to a woman who dies during childbirth. A priest at the hospital suggests that Thorn takes the surviving child and raise him as his own… without telling his mother.Time passes and Thorn is made Ambassador to the Court of St James. Everything goes well until the child, named Damien, is five when his nanny hangs herself in a very public manner. She is replaced by Mrs. Baylock, a sinister woman who claims to have been sent by the agency. Soon afterwards a priest tries to warn Thorn about his son; what he says sound like the ravings of a mad man; references to Revelations and prophecies about the arrival of the Antichrist! Soon afterwards the priest is killed in a freak accident and Thorn is approached by a photographer who has noticed strange shadows on pictures he had taken of the nanny and the priest that feature strange shadows that mirror the way they died. By now Thorn is very concerned so returns to Italy to discover the truth about his son… meanwhile back in London his wife is in grave danger.This is a classic '70s horror film but don't expect it to be very scary. There are a few shocks and some mildly gory moments. This doesn't mean it isn't worth watching though; the story is solid and the cast is impressive. Gregory Peck does a fine job as Robert Thorn; especially towards the end as he learns the dreadful truth and realises what he must try to do. Lee Remick is also good as his wife, Billie Whitelaw is suitably sinister as Mrs. Baylock and David Warner impresses as the photographer. Harvey Spencer Stephens doesn't really have much to do as the young Damien but he certainly manages to smile in a creepy way. The film does show its age in places and certain things seem too unlikely; notably the Thorns failing to check up on Mrs. Baylock's references and the way Robert Thorn goes off to Italy then Israel without any of the protection one would expect a senior diplomat to have… assuming he could get time off! The ending is a bit down beat but that does at least leave things open for the later films in the series. Overall I'd certainly recommend this to horror fans; especially those for like horror films inspired by religion.

This tale of the coming of the anti-Christ is incredibly captivating. What begins as a simple story of a man and his family, his wife and little boy, turns into a truly gripping film about a demon that is about to enter the world and hold sway. Gregory Peck plays the father and Lee Remick the mother of a little boy who is utterly evil. Of course, since we are all sane people, we don't believe there can be such a thing, and we go to the ends of the earth for our children. Damien, who is a precocious, but reckless kid takes his devil role very seriously. His father suspects something is wrong and goes about trying to figure things out. Meanwhile, Damien's mother is left alone with the little fellow. Eventually, things move to new heights and the violence comes. By the way, what an awesome choice for a musical score--"Carmina Burana."