Story Line
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
“It is the greatest mystery of all because no human being will ever solve it.”
Top Cast
Gregory Peck
Robert Thorn
Lee Remick
Katherine Thorn
David Warner
Keith Jennings
Billie Whitelaw
Mrs. Baylock
Harvey Stephens
Damien Thorn
Patrick Troughton
Father Brennan
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Rating
7.4/ 10
Release Date
1976-06-25
Runtime
1h 51m
Genres
HorrorThriller
Part of the Series
The Omen Collection
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User Reviews (3)
JPV852
7/10
•10/6/2019For whatever reason never saw The Omen before and while it has its moments, the last 10-15 minutes were particularly great, the middle part plodded along at a slow pace with little happening that was interesting outside a scene or two. All in all, it...
GenerationofSwine
10/10
•1/14/2023I just recently re-watched this and the remake...there's really no fair comparison.
Gregory Peck wins over Liev Schreiber, but then Peck is the better actor.
Lee Remick is far more believable than Julia Stiles who doesn't seem to convey the sam...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•6/3/2023OK, so at times this is a bit far-fetched, even for a horror movie, but I reckon it is still my favourite from the genre made in the 1970s. From a rather murky start in a Roman hospital, we see Gregory Peck and wife Lee Remmick head to London where h...