Review of The Omen (1976) by Lucas S — 29 Oct 2009

The Omen is one of the most important movies of our time. I bet after everyone saw this movie they said they're prayers. This movie probably changed me forever. I think why they make these kind of movies is because they have to tell to some people to have all the respect you can for God, and going to church and stuff like that.

The murders are really just completely strange. You are thinking "What the heck is going on right now?" The death's to me was just really confusing. The scary thing in those death scenes is the music. It was just making me feel literally scared.

Damien is the most creepy kid in a horror film that I have ever seen since those two little girls in The Shining. Damien just made me sick. I just wanted him to get killed off. Not have him be in trouble, I wanted him to be killed. I really just hated Damien.

But it was not just Damien, there was also that freaky, witch, nanny. She literally gave me nightmares. When I see her in the film she makes my skin crawl. You know that the devil had he come there.

But the other villain is not a human being at all. It is a dog. Damian sees that dog right in the beginning so you know that the dog is going to be more involved in the film. But that was one of the only dogs in a film that I have hated.

Gregory Peck I think is nuts for doing this movie. I would never have expected to do a movie that is mainly about the devil. That is not Gregory Peck. He is one of the best actors in the history of man kind, and I think he got more heard of becuase this movie is one of the biggest classic horror films that has ever been made.

One of the scenes in The Omen was one of the best camera shots I think is one of the best shots that I have ever seen in a horror film. It is when Gregory Peck throws these knives from this photagrapher that he has been with for most of the time near the end of the movie, so he is going to get the knives and then this truck is backing up and this long glass and he finally looks at the car and the camera is so close to the truck it looks like you are seeing it in reality, you know like you are seeing it with your own eyes, and you see the head getting chopped of by the glass, and it is just so scary, and you are seeing it in slow motion like the head is rolling around on the glass and you are just screaming like "Did that just happen?" Because not many people would expect that in a movie that came from 30 years ago. It is one of the most entertaining things that I have seen in a film. It is just so great and amusing. This is probably the best editing in a horror film that I have seen.

There are so many great and scary scenes like when they find the grave of Damien's real mom, and when we find out it is just this beast you know that Damien is completely Satan, and you are just screaming on the edge of your seat.

But the scariest scene in The Omen is when the mom is killed by the nanny. When Gregory Peck calls her and tells her to go to Rome as soon as she can, but she is injured so when she is putting on the sweater and you see through the sweater and it is that scary nanny of Damien, and they are playing that music, and she is just scared and her eyes are just getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger, and she is just walking closer and closer every single second, and when she is out of the shot. They are outside of the hospital, and she breaks through the glass window and she is screaming and bashes through the hospital truck. She justs falls out the window...... and dies. They did not call this one of the scariest movies of all time for nothing. I am dead serious right now.

This is probably the scariest film that I have seen this whole entire year. If you have not seen this movie because you do not like these kind of films, I don't care. Literally you need to see this film. Whether you like it or not. This is a masterpiece.

10 STARS!!!! Definetley deserves this rating.