Damien (TV Series) The Beast Rises (2016) User Reviews

No beast at all

[cjonesas · 6/10 · 27 August 2022]

Episode 1 pilot: Some good acting, cinematography, filming, setting, some average elements of horror, some doggy good, some not so much.

It wants to impress, it half succeeds. A little too convoluted and over-dramatized.

Some good acting, cinematography, filming, setting, some average elements of horror, some doggy good, some not so much.

It wants to impress, it half succeeds. A little too convoluted and over-dramatized.

Some good acting, cinematography, filming, setting, some average elements of horror, some doggy good, some not so much.

It wants to impress, it half succeeds. A little too convoluted and over-dramatized.

At first I didn't really want to watch . but had nothing else to watch .

[israelpalmosis · 10/10 · 14 March 2016]

At first I found myself with nothing to watch I liked . All the siries i like I finished and was looking for something new . Lucifer didn't impress me much and i searched . Then I saw Damien was released, I said "ok lets try this, i probably will stop watching after 5 minutes" . But then in the middle of the 1st episode I said : Finally ! Great beginning, if it continues like this, its fantastic . Damien always was scary, since the movie, And now also in the siries. It will be interesting to learn if he is good, or maybe he is evil ? They started the siries excellent, and it feels like It was written by good writers . So keep up the good work and continue this dark interesting siries .

Hellish

[SteveResin · 4/10 · 9 May 2016]

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.