Man this is bad. It doesn't help that they use footage from the original Omen with Gregory Peck, a sublime study of horror and paranoia. In contrast Damien Episode 1 is just beautiful people caught up in a supernatural mystery. It's like watching a particularly left-field car commercial with Beelzebub thrown in to the mix. The hilariously awful premise has Damien Thorn now a photographer in war zones, with a conscience and a really nice set of teeth and sneakers. His memory apparently disappeared after the events of The Omen. So we're treated to flashbacks from the movie as he slowly uncovers his true identity. Any excuse to show a superior product I suppose in the vain hope this will match it. Fat chance.
As far as horror goes it's all the usual things we've seen a million times before. Devil dogs, drowning deaths, weird foreigners chanting, old wizened women cackling and old Priests with knives vowing to rid the world of the Anti-Christ. Speaking of which, this led to the most inept line of dialogue in the whole episode, when one of the Priests draws the Satan-Killing-Knives the other says "Thorn is discovering his powers, I told you we'd waited too long!" What, like 30 years??!!! Lame.
As far as horror goes it's all the usual things we've seen a million times before. Devil dogs, drowning deaths, weird foreigners chanting, old wizened women cackling and old Priests with knives vowing to rid the world of the Anti-Christ. Speaking of which, this led to the most inept line of dialogue in the whole episode, when one of the Priests draws the Satan-Killing-Knives the other says "Thorn is discovering his powers, I told you we'd waited too long!" What, like 30 years??!!! Lame.