Damien: Omen II

Pros: One of the best sequels I've seen.
Cons: May have been better with Donner.

Warning: This review contains spoilers for the first movie in the series. I highly recommend you watch T he Omen before reading this review At the end of T he Omen we ...

Pros: The marvelous set-pieces.
Cons: The entire film is an excuse for the marvelous set-pieces

Well wouldn’t you know it, my very first write-off and I miss the deadline! Many apologies to my fellow write-offers for the delay, but hey it’s in now and I hope you all enjoy it. And the reason? Well, the sequel I chose to review sucked so bad I...

Pros: some of the acting is pretty good, not a horrible continuation of the Omen series
Cons: some of the acting is pretty bad, very familiar territory

Ahem, well, I started on this series with the first film, so I figure I might as well continue on with the next offering, Damien: Omen II. While this sequel isn't as good as the Omen, it's still not the worst I've ever seen. Once again, they offer us...

Pros: a few nice performances, interesting plot, incredible potential, death scenes are still fun
Cons: The filmmakers didn't have enough faith in their main character

The human elements engage an audience in a character. With "Damien: Omen II," the filmmakers didn't try hard enough.

The sequel to the popular 1976 classic begins by expounding on prophecies about the Anti-Christ introduced in the first film,...

Pros: Damien Thorn lives on.
Cons: None.

At the start of this movie, they show a scene that they left off in the 1976 version of the first Omen movie. This picks up where the Egyptian finds a newspaper that was dated seven years earlier and it shows Damien on the front of the paper as a five...

Pros: great story, a bit of good gore (elevator scene) and an unhappy ending
Cons: the ignorance of key characters is distressing, but it was written that way

After the first Omen gave audiences the "eeby jeebies" about the Anti-Christ and his prophesised return, a sequel came shortly afterwards with a view into the Devil-Child's adolescence and the steps that are taken to make sure his seat of power is...

Pros: Good set-pieces, standard performances from Holden & Grant, Goldsmith's score
Cons: Predictable, seems labored at times

Richard Donner's 1976 chiller The Omen caused a storm - a fantastic movie starring Gregory Peck and Lee Remick based on the rise of the anti-christ a la the book of revelations. Don taylor directed this 1978 follow up which start William Holden and ...

Pros: Evil triumphs here
Cons: Some acting is a little stiff at times but worth putting up with

OK you AntiChrist junkies, this is it! This is the movie that will scare the hell out of you and make you want to repent. As you know, Damian's first parents were into politics and his new parents (the brother of Peck in the first movie was Prez of US)...

Pros: The acting
Cons: The score and the setting

DAMIEN: OMEN II starts out when Damien Thorn - the Antichrist - is thirteen. Because Damien's earthly foster parents die off in the first film, William Holden and Lee Grant take over the parenting responsibilities for the Antichrist. Damien is sent off...

Pros: many frightening, chilling moments
Cons: none

Although not quite as frightening as the original Omen, this movie still had quite a few shocking, frighteng scenes throughout it.


It begins with Bugenhagen, who had given Jeremy Thorn the seven daggers of Meggido, so that he...

Pros: Jonathan Scott-Taylor did an excellent job, and the special effects were good.
Cons: Some of the acting wasn't too good, and some of the lines were corny.

Okay. This is the sequel to the Omen. As you might've guessed. In this, little Damien is a young teen attending a military school. People are dying in freak accidents, which, to everyone, look like accidents. Meanwhile, Damien is now living with his...