The Omen

19761976
RR
1h 51min

Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, and Harvey Stephens in The Omen (1976)

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Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?

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Won 1 Oscar
- 5 wins & 8 nominations total

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The Omen (1976)

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Harvey Stephens in The Omen (1976)

Gregory Peck and Patrick Troughton in The Omen (1976)

Harvey Stephens in The Omen (1976)

Harvey Stephens in The Omen (1976)

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Harvey Stephens in The Omen (1976)

Holly Palance in The Omen (1976)

Harvey Stephens and Billie Whitelaw in The Omen (1976)

Behind the scenes in the hospital with Lee Remick

Robert and Jennings seek the truth

Harvey Stephens stars as Damien

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Robert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. They are happily married and he is the US Ambassador to Great Britain, but they want nothing more than to have children. When Katharine has a stillborn child, Robert is approached by a priest at the hospital who suggests that they take a healthy newborn whose mother has just died in childbirth. Without telling his wife he agrees. After relocating to London, strange events - and the ominous warnings of a priest - lead him to believe that the child he took from that Italian hospital is evil incarnate. —garykmcd

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Taglines
- OUR FINAL WARNING.
Genre
- Horror
Certificate
- R
Parents guide

Trivia
Harvey Stephens, as Damien, was largely chosen for this role from the way he attacked Richard Donner during auditions. Donner asked all the little boys to "come at him" as if they were attacking Katherine Thorn during the church wedding scene. Stephens screamed and clawed at Donner's face, and kicked him in the groin during his act. Donner whipped the kid off him, ordered the kid's blond hair dyed black and cast him as Damien.

Goofs
Toward the end of the film, Jennings says that the place name Megiddo derives from the term Armageddon. Actually, it is the other way around - "Armageddon" is a bastardization of "Har Megiddo", which, in Hebrew, means simply "mountain of Megiddo". According to Revelation 16:16, this would be the site of the last battle in history.

Quotes
Young nanny: Look at me, Damien! It's all for you.
[she jumps off a roof, hanging herself]

Crazy credits
Closing credits epilogue: "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is 666."

Book of Revelation Chapter 13 Verse 18

Alternate versions
In the Swedish version, the scene showing Jennings being decapitated has been cut by 11 seconds.

Connections
Featured in V.I.P.-Schaukel: Episode #6.3 (1976)

Soundtracks
Ave Satani
(uncredited)
Music and Latin lyrics by Jerry Goldsmith

Top review

classy and chilling horror

The first and best in the series of films about devil-child Damien teamed a great cast (Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Patrick Troughton, Billie Whitelaw) with Harvey Stephens in a chilling performance as the child.

The deaths most of the cast meet are inventive and in some cases, memorable for many years after viewing the film - giving the opportunity for some unusual and striking visuals, while the whole film is soaked in that loud Goldsmith score to great effect.

The sequels, alas, were poor in comparison, but 'The Omen' stands alone of its type of seventies horror schlock.

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Budget
- $2,800,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
- $60,922,980
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,273,886
- Jun 27, 1976
Gross worldwide
- $60,922,980

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Runtime
- 1h 51min
Color
- Color
Sound mix
- Mono
Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1

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