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The Omen
2006
Liev Schreiber (EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED) plays Robert Thorn--a wealthy American official living in Rome--whose wife Kate (Julia Stiles, MONA LISA SMILE) has just lost her first child. At the behest of a strange priest, Robert substitutes an orphaned child for his own without Kate's knowledge, and soon the small family is .. Read more
| Starring | Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Mia Farrow, David Thewlis |
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| Director | John Moore |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Horror |
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The Omen
Liev Schreiber (EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED) plays Robert Thorn--a wealthy American official living in Rome--whose wife Kate (Julia Stiles, MONA LISA SMILE) has just lost her first child. At the behest of a strange priest, Robert substitutes an orphaned child for his own without Kate's knowledge, and soon the small family is living an idyllic existence on a lavish estate in England. But when the child Damian (Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick) turns five years old, strange things begin to happen, beginning with a nanny's public and very grisly suicide at the boy's lavish birthday party. Kate begins to notice odd things about her child, such as the way other children don't want to play with him, his strange provocation of animals, and his increasingly pronounced withdrawal from her. By the time she begins fearing for her life, however, it may be too late, and it's up to her husband to figure out once and for all if the child really is the spawn of Satan. Thus Robert embarks on a journey that takes him back to Italy, Jerusalem, and an encounter with a priest of decidedly horrific demeanour; he's aided by a photographer who has figured out what's going on, and who just might be the next one to die.
John Moore's remake of Richard Donner's unsettling 1976 horror classic increases the quality of production values, yet stays very true to the original. The atmospheric, spooky mise-en-scene, marked by an almost constant storm and grey tones interrupted by startling reds, deliciously makes the most of the film's exaggeratedly apocalyptic message. The wonderful Mia Farrow (ROSEMARY’S BABY) is suitably creepy as Damian's replacement nanny.
| Starring | Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Mia Farrow, David Thewlis, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick |
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| Director | John Moore |
| Studio | 20TH CENTURY FOX |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs Blu-ray: 1 hr 49 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Horror Films |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Horror |
| Language | English, English Audio Description |
| Released | DVD: 23 Oct 2006 Blu-ray: 11 Dec 2006 Production year: 2006 |
| Format | DVD |
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42 out of 58 people found this review helpful
No atheists in foxholes.
For those who never saw the original, this is a good movie. It's intense, nicely photographed with excellent surround sound, and capably acted.
For those of us who watched the original in 1976, the one that starred Gregory Peck and Lee Remick, we have to ask, 'What is the point of watching this?' For us - at least most of us - the original is superior, but not by a wide margin, to be fair. I have no problem with remakes if they are not cheaply presented and I was entertained by this presentation even though I knew the story.
It was interesting to see this with the updated technology both off (digital surround sound, etc.) and on the screen (laptop computers, cell phones, etc.) but the story is still similar enough that owning both of these films is questionable. Given the choice, I would stick with the 1976 film, but - I repeat: if you've never seen 'The Omen,' this movie is recommended. It's entertaining, that's for sure.
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- JediSi
- Posted 07 Nov 2007 20:44
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5 out of 6 people found this review helpful
not great
i would only go and see this film if you seen everything else there. all remake do is look better with the aid of a computer
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Omen, The - BLU-RAY Version
Liev Schreiber (EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED) plays Robert Thorn--a wealthy American official living in Rome--whose wife Kate (Julia Stiles, MONA LISA SMILE) has just lost her first child. At the behest of a strange priest, Robert substitutes an orphaned child for his own without Kate's knowledge, and ...
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