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The Omen

1976

Richard Donner

Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, Harvey Stephens, David Warner ...

7.4

44,662

Horror. Mystery Robert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. He is the US Ambassador to Italy and they want for nothing in their lives, except one thing: they do not have children. When Katharine has a stillborn child, Robert is approached by a priest at the hospital who suggest that he take a healthy newborn whose mother has just died in childbirth. Without telling his wife he agrees to to so but after relocating to London, strange events - and the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Anna Baddeley Telegraph	"Much scarier than fellow possessed child flick 'The Exorcist' (...) 'The Omen' contains some of the most memorable untimely deaths in cinema history. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"Richard Donner directs more for speed than mood, but there are a few good shocks."	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"This apocalyptic movie mostly avoids physical gore to boost its relatively unoriginal storyline with suspense, some excellent acting (especially from Warner and Whitelaw), and a very deft, incident-packed script."	POS
United States	Richard Eder The New York Times	"Its horrors are not horrible, its terrors are not terrifying, its violence is ludicrous (...) but we manage to sustain some curiosity as to how things will work out"	NEU
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"The performance of Harvey Stephens as the young Damien has invested the film with the chill of genuine credibility"	POS

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