Damien: Omen II

It was OK. Not as good as the original. The only thing I remember is a woman getting attacked by crows.

Wonderfully camp. Watched it several times.

[quote]r1 The only thing I remember is a woman getting attacked by crows.

That was actress Elizabeth Shepherd. She was also in a Vincent Price movie.

The crow scene was hilarious for what happens after.

I thought Damien was a good looking teen, also his cousin Mark

I thought all 3 were decent.

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMIOOOOOOOOON!

^tee-hee

I never laughed so much in my life!

Lee Grant as the godmother to Satan's spawn is hilarious!

For you Designing Women fans:

Is this the one with a naked grown up Damien writhing on the floor?

I liked it. I mean, the Omen movies are kind of ridiculous and preposterous. But they're extremely well made. And the Jerry Goldsmith scores are brilliant and iconic.

I thought the actor who played Damien did an excellent job. Sinister but charming.

Definitely a fun movie to watch.

I think it’s weird now how so many people think of the 1976 original as some kind of horror classic nowadays. It was always regarded a sort of limp, two-and-a-half-stars (out of four) misfire by critics and most horror fans when I was growing up in the 80s. I always cock an eyebrow whenever I read someone write something like, “Horror movies these days just aren’t what they used to be. Check out The Texas Chain Saw Masacre, Halloween, The Exorcist, THE OMEN...”

The Shining is another one. I distinctly recall it not getting very favorable reviews in the movie guide books, like Leonard Maltin’s or the Video Movie Guide by Mick Martin & Marsha Porter.

[quote]Is this the one with a naked grown up Damien writhing on the floor?

Are you thinking of Sam Neill in Omen III: The Final Conflict?

Does anyone have a link to this hot nudity?

Watch it, OP.

It is hilarious!

[quote]r15 The Shining is another one. I distinctly recall it not getting very favorable reviews

That movie is so damn boring. And the cast is DRAB as all hell.

I agree, R18.

The Omen and The Shining are both horror classics.

I had a crush on Damien and Cousin Mark when I was 11 years old.

I was surprised the guy who played the second Damien is straight because he seemed like a bit of a prissy queen in the movie.

I’ve watched it multiple times

Wow, Barron is growing up fast.

The confrontation of Damian and his teacher rattling off historical figures and their dates of passing seemed riveting at the time

The Omen is a classic, compared to the retreaded crap they put on movie screens today.

I mean, did you actually sit all the way through Hereditary?

Yes, I did, R26, and it was good up until that absolutely ridiculous ending.

I actually read this book in jr. high when I found a copy at a thrift store. It was a fun, quick read.

One scary scene, someone trapped under ice, when I saw that as a kid it terrified me. But it's not as good as the first which had a demonic nanny, the brilliant Billie Whitelaw, a doomed priest, gothic goings on in Israel etc. And Lee Remick getting pushed off a balcony by her beloved tot.

R29 The beheading by a sheet of glass really bothered me. It’s one of the few horror movie scenes that ever deeply disturbed me.

Fun fact: “Mark” is the son of actress Michael Learned (THE WALTONS).

The first one has one of the great genuinely scary moments in film: the nanny killing herself off the roof of the Thorns' mansion after saying, "It;s all for you, Damien" ecstatically. And it has Billie Whitelaw, who is great. But the problem with all the Omen films is that it's the same structure over and over again: someone slowly learns the truth about who Damien is, and then meets with an extremely gruesome death. The whole point of the films is so we can see each death and say, "Oooh! Cool! That was particularly disgusting!" It's a lot like giallo in that way.

The upshot of Elizabeth Shepherd being attacked by the raven is pretty hilarious, as is Meschach Taylor's end with the elevator cable (depicted in the photo above). You can't even take those deaths seriously.

R32 I never found the nanny thing scary. The direction of the original movie overall is eerie though.

[quote] [R32] I never found the nanny thing scary.

You're rare in that, then.

For really terrible, try the Omen IV, a TV movie in which Faye Grant and Michael Woods adopt a female antichrist.

During that ice scene, one of the boys, does a somersault while running to help. It's so obvious he's trying to stand out & look like a real action hero. It makes me laugh every time I see it.

The whole movie is rather silly, but still fun to watch. 70's horror is the best.

R31 "Mark" is also responsible for those terrible eHarmony commercials.

The first film was slightly campy. The second one was an all out campfest The ending with bad acting from Lee Grant and Bill Holden was Razzy worthy.

To be honest, I'm surprised they haven't tried remaking this.

The trailer!

I liked part 2 better. I was very attracted to Damien when I was a young gayling.

Jonathan Scott-Taylor, who played Damien in this one, stopped acting almost immediately afterward and his whereabouts are unknown.

There are a lot of creepy people online looking for him.

[quote]To be honest, I'm surprised they haven't tried remaking this.

Which one? THE OMEN had a shitty remake featuring Julia Stiles, Liev Schreiber, and Mia Farrow. That was more than enough fuckery. 🤮

R42, I remember the somewhat clever ad campaign for the remake of The Omen because they released it on 06/06/06. I'm surprised they haven't remade Damien: Omen II.

It's worth checking out for the fantastic Jerry Goldsmith score and Sylvia Sydney as campy old Aunt Marion. Cardiac arrest by a crow!!

R16: thank you - yes that’s what I was thinking of.

Agree with r37 that O2 is just straight out camp but still quite watchable. I remember that there’s a party Damien and all of cadet buddies are attending, and all the other teen boys look on sourly as every girl in the room is crowded around Damien, who looks like he should be holding a snifter of port.

I had the hots for Damien too! I imagined homoerotic overtones in the scene where he ends up killing Mark.

We would "sing" the creepy choir type music on the playground in grade school and get into trouble for doing so. The teachers knew what we were doing.

The kid who played Damien in part two was good but again kinda gay.

Love the different estates/homes! Love that Damien doesn't seem remotely scary - in fact, he is charming and I think aunt Marion came off as a huge bitch. Love the campy deaths. Creepiest characters are the pervy guys watching over Damien: white afro guy and lance henrickson. Also, Damien...gay or just fey brit? Both?

The kid who played Damien played a hot prep school bully in Tales of the Unexpected.

In the first one, I always loved the story of how they got the baboons to react. They took the alpha baboon into the car and filmed the reaction of the rest of the group.

R52, was that zoo a real place, btw? With people driving in cars and the wild animals roaming all around them?

I'm not sure, R53. I assume it's a place similar to what Great Adventure used to have. I recall going when I was a kid in the 80s. I think they used to drug the lions when the cars went through. I always recall them sleeping when we drove through.

I love the way Lee Grant yells "DAMIEN" at the end.

Though I never understood why she then kills herself.

She didn't kill herself. He burned her alive.

Damien kills her by making the boiler explode with his demonic powers.

....

Why does he kill her?

R59 He didn't want her to kill the uncle.

I just don’t get this movie. I mean, it’s so unlikely something like this could ever really happen...

Love this one. ore than the first! I even have the DVD.

CAMP CLASSIC and great gore.

And its beautifully shot, actually.

I am a huge Lee Grant fan, so it makes it even better.

Is this the one where some guy was cut in half by falling elevator cables?

I was sorry that "Ave Satani" (from he first Omen) lost the Best Song Oscar to "Evergreen" (from A Star is Born). It would have been to imagine scores of high school choirs singing it in their Spring Concerts.

When the doctor gets cut in half, it immediately cuts to a shot of Damien's aunt reading about it in a newspaper and saying how horrible it is - it's a direct copy of the scene in the first movie when the priest is speared with Lee Remick reading about it immediately afterwards (with a photo of the speared priest which I'm sure a British broadsheet would definitely publish on its front page).

R42 I must have been the only one on the planet who enjoyed the Liev Shrieber / Stiles / Farrow remake. I thought it was a ton of fun. Loved the scene where Mia jumps on Schriebers back like a crazy banshee.

The remake wasn't terrible but like a lot of remakes it's just kinda dull and pointless.

I thought Mia was good though.

Hysterical.

If he was raised in America by his uncle, why did he still have a strong British accent? In fact, it was even stronger as a teen.

R68 On the bright side, he would be a fantastic jeopardy contestant.

R69 Perhaps it was a Madonnaesque affectation.

R71 Well, his mother WAS a jackal, after all.

I remember watching it on TV while babysitting: the kids loved it, but I was scared shitless.

I was only attracted to Damien when I was a kid. Not Mark or anybody else. Maybe it *was* because he gave off a gay vibe that my gayling gaydar picked up on.

Omg.

Hands down, the best Damien scene of all the films is the surprise anal scene in Omen 3!

I had no idea there was an Omen III. Adult Damien?

It's not bad r77. It's kind of the same story, though, as the first two. Someone learns about Damien and they are killed in some grisly way. But Sam Neill is very well cast, very sexy and sinister.

It kind of loses its way for me near the end but it's worth checking out.

R78, thanks. I'll have to check it out.

Well, the original Omen sure scared the heck out of my older brother and sister. When I was a toddler, they kept checking my scalp for the sign of the beast as they claimed I always cried when my parents took us to church. 😂

I thought Lee Remick was so classy when I saw the original as a kid.

I was like, "Wow, that's a LADY."

Damien's hair looks devilish in that last picture.

The films became increasingly worse: THE OMEN > O II > O III

Omen 3 suffers from a lack of apocalypse.

The actor who played Damian was such a smug little shit. Yeah, I guess that' s what they wanted. Regardless, I found him annoying and as we all know his future in film was non-existent.

Watch your tongue, or the ravens will poke out your eyes! Queue the demon music

As Lee Grant says in her autobiography, "I SAID YES TO EVERYTHING"!

He's apparently married but the actor who played Damien seemed kinda gay.

Loved the crow attacked on the woman. At first it's pretty horrifying but they ruined it by throwing a dummy to smack into the truck and it's hilarious.

I looked like Omen II Damien when I was a little kid. I had a cousin named Mark too.

When Trump is finally out of office, I'm going to post the last scene of The Final Conflict on all my social media.

Chilling, but only because I had been exposed to fundie loons as a child. Ugh. Little did I know at the time I watched it that it was the Drumpf family story!

I found it kind of trashy. The editing is all over the place and most of the cinematography looks like a TV movie. It's also a complete retread of part 1, they even do the sudden death/immediate cut to front page story about it in the newspaper trick they did in part 1 when the priest dies.

Was Damien the real-life story of Jared Kushner?

Very scary at the time, when I was a wee lad of nine years, but doesn't quite hold up. It does seem quite campy as an adult.

I watched this again the other night and yes, it's ridiculous, but it's so damn entertaining.

I love Joan Hart. Fashion queen. She's so determined to tell William Holden his nephew is the Anti-Christ, yet she has time to put together a fabulous red ensemble. The dummy in her death scene is hilarious.

But I noticed the film ditches the crows halfway through.

Also love when Damien learns he is the Anti-Christ, he runs to the pier and then he's like, "Yeah, whatever".

I love watching Holden and Grant together. He looks so embarrassed but she's like, "yay, I'm getting paid".

“Who wants a corned beef sandwich?”

Well, along with The Sentinel and The Manitou, Damien: Omen II is one of my favorite bad 70's possession pictures.