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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 | 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 | Horror |
| Language | DVD: English, English Audio Description Blu-ray: English |
| Released | Production year: 2006 To Rent: DVD: 23 Oct 2006 Blu-ray: 11 Dec 2006 |
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For those who never saw the original, this is a good movie. It's intense, nicely photographed with excellent surround sound, and capably acted.
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good but not as good as the orignal
not a bad film, still scary and demonic, but however its not as good as the original.
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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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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 ...
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