The Omen Review

Review of The Omen (1976) by screenqueeen: 👎 2.5/5

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After ROSEMARY'S BABY the way this presents a satanic story isn't as shocking as Donner presents it to be. Even with Goldmith's score it doesn't quite get to the heights it wants to hit and is unfortunately more boring than what is presented as shocking or compelling. The thread Warner's character reveals is the main interest here for me but is removed at a point too soon to hand it off to Peck in a way that transfers the responsibility to him prematurely that isn't used very well. I'm curious to see where the sequels take this but this entire film just feels like the kid just has terrible things happen around him in his name but there isn't any satisfiable delineation of deliberate evil being committed. Just feels like a monkey's paw tale with no apparent boon to anyone but Damian himself, and nothing apparently distresses him other than regular kid stuff, which offers us no real gravity to the happenings of THE OMEN. I would watch more surrounding that nanny though.