rensosalch Perfect timing , the music , the story all is great

Parker Lewis I rated this 7, which is 6.66 rounded up.Anyway, this movie ain't child's play, and much has been written about The Omen. When I first watched it, I thought "omen" meant something awful or negative. But "omen" is a neutral word but thanks to this scary motion picture, we associate it with a 666 kid-running-amok. Anyway, after the movie screened, I can imagine parents nervously checking for 666 marks on their kids' scalps and re-familiarizing themselves with the Book of Revelation. But a word of caution for parents in this predicament...the 666 may in fact be 999, as the absence of an underline on the kid's scalp may confuse things, and a 999 kid is innocent.

generationofswine I 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 same earnest fear and suspicion.David Thewlis is a good actor, but in bit parts he always seems to phone it in and David Warner was just the more believable photographer.I mean, the 1976 The Omen is dated, but that's not a bad thing and in this case you get the sense that they were doing something fresh and really trying to frighten you...and they did.By comparison the remake is paint by numbers and offers nothing new.1976 is, hands down the more frightening, more dramatic, and more suspenseful film. Compared to 2006. 1976 is believable.

Uriah43 When their baby dies only hours after being born a diplomat named "Robert Thorn " (Gregory Peck) is given the opportunity to replace it with another baby born at that exact same time without his wife "Katherine" (Lee Remick) discovering the truth. However, as the child begins to grow he notices some strange occurrences which become even more disturbing as time passes. It's at this time that a priest named "Father Brennan" (Patrick Troughton) comes forward and tries to warn Robert Thorn—who is now the United States Ambassador to Great Britain--about the true identity of his son. Unfortunately, the priest soon meets with a tragic death which leads a photographer named "Keith Jennings" (David Warner) to research even further-and what he discovers is truly frightening. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a decent film concerning Biblical prophecy on the topic of the Anti-Christ. Unfortunately, as is so often the case, the writers (in this case David Seltzer) typically add some extremely ridiculous scenarios which go well beyond anything ever mentioned in the Bible. For example, this film goes to great lengths to depict the mother of the Anti-Christ as being a jackal. I'm not kidding. But despite this rather goofy assertion this was still a decent enough horror film and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.