The Omen [Blu-ray]
by Richard Donner
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Actor: David Warner, Don Fellows, Freda Dowie, Gregory Peck, Lee RemickDirector: Richard Donner
Cinematographer: Gilbert Taylor
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-07
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of The Omen [Blu-ray]
DVD Review: THE OMEN
Summary: 1 Stars
I have marked 1 star, otherwise I can't go on with this procedure. But the truth is I can't rate "The Omen" at all, because I could never play it. Blu-Rays from Fox are always so tricky and so slow to load (why is that, when Warner or Columbia Blu-rays, for instance, are so easy and fast?) that I was'nt wandering why it was taking about ten minutes to get the main menu on screen. But when I cliked "Play", the menu dissappeared, but the image on the backgroung kept playing, and playing, and playing forever.
I just could'nt watch the movie.
An excellent reason to forget about Fox, as long as they don't correct these defficiencies.
DVD Review: Disappointing by aging
Summary: 4 Stars
Creepy: "When the Jews return to Zion / And a comet rips the sky / And the Holy Roman Empire rises, / Then You and I must die. / From the eternal sea he rises, / Creating armies on either shore, / Turning man against his brother / 'Till man exists no more." Fake quotation from the Bible of some Yeats-like poem, hardly supported by the Book of Revelation. Apart from that bigot filiation to texts that are absolutely transcending in their inspiration and here reduced to some superstitious unfounded belief. We have to go over this vision and the unacceptable use of dogs to protect the son of Satan, the Antichrist, a direct allusion to the dogs of Allah, to the Moslem creed actually more rather than less hinted at with Jerusalem and the discovery of the roots of Christianity on a background voice-over of a Muezzin calling for prayer. Then the film is an archetypical matrix for so many films to come that will describe the coming of the Antichrist. Yet no film will ever be as short and as powerful as Yeats' "The Second Coming". The film is a masterpiece in cinematographic form, though it is rather easy and uses some techniques (hiatus and ellipse) that are so common that they need some renewing to be as effective as they could be. That is to say that this film has aged because it uses techniques of cinematographic story telling that have been so much improved and multiplied over the last three decades that they seem slightly weak in this film. In a way that's a shame because it remains a matrix of that type of horror stories but it has lost a lot of its bleakness and terrifying effect. I even find it weak in some sections, like the killing of the devilish son. Weak and tamed and softened and many other things. Thirty years ago killing a child of five could seem horrible. Today, I just wonder if it is not something we are born with. After all the genocides of the last twenty years and all the suicide bombers, even at times women with child, we have the right to wonder if that insanity is not in-grown in our memory from beyond birth and death, like some genetic inheritance, some genetic re-incarnation. I was expecting something a lot more powerful because I will definitely consider that the religious gibberish in the film is just what it is "gibberish". John did a lot better in his days, even if he was not the only one to hold the pen that wrote the Book of Revelation.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
DVD Review: THE OMEN - Really Good Horror Film of 1976
Summary: 4 Stars
The Omen was a good four star horror film that I saw in 1976 which had an excellent story and good special effects. The gated cemetary guarded by hounds from hell was fantastic, and as far as atmosphere and pure horror this scene was on a par with the old Universal movies. The musical score was very effective at establishing the mood for the film.
What I don't understand was the absolute rave that came out of Hollywood for this film at the academy awards which had dozens of dancers on stage and vocalists chanting in Latin. This was entertaining but didn't really make any sense. All of Hollywood turned out to say this film was the best thing for horror since Universal's Frankenstein. I thought it was good but not deserving of all that praise.
This was the first horror film I saw with my wife after we were married in 1976, and I really had to work to get her to see it. Actually, it worked out well for both of us as she appeared to like this film, minus the explicit gore. This was the first of the Omen films and set the series off to a good start for years to come.
This film received extensive advertising on posters, NYC subway stations, newspapers, radio and television and got many fans talking about it prior to release. It was an exciting time for horror at the movies again and I understand and agree with the average Amazon reviewer.
DVD Review: Classic Horror
Summary: 5 Stars
The Omen is remastered in this DVD 2 disc set and looks fabulous. DVD extra features gives the backstory to the "curse" of The Omen during filming. One particular documentary covers the entire series. I loved it and am very happy to have this in my horror/thriller collection.DVD Review: A Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Omen" is one of those few, infact very few realistic horror films. A story that is based on a real fact. Excellent chemistry between Greggory Peck and Lee Remick, the romantic score by Jerry Goldsmith is simply delightfull. Billie Whitelaw was fabulous as the evil Governess, she was very expressive and done her part really well. David Warner as usual gives his best performence. Last but not the least the child Harvey Stephens does very well, the evil expressions that easily potrayed from the little child. Haunting music from Jerry Goldsmith. Excellent scenarios and wonderfull direction makes the film a true classic. If you love classics, trust me you will definately love this one too.
Description of The Omen [Blu-ray]
The first film in classic, four-part legacy of terror stars Gregory Peck as an ambassador who is talked into switching his wife's (Lee Remick) stillborn baby with an orphaned infant. When young Damien is Five, the horror begins with his nanny's dramatic suicide. As the death toll escalates, Damien's father, realizing his son is the antichrist, decides that he must kill the boy and rid the world of the evil.After The Exorcist sparked a lengthy trend of supernatural thrillers, this 1976 horror film scored a hit with critics and audiences for mixing gothic horror and mystery into its plot about a young boy suspected of being the personification of the anti-Christ. (No doubt it's a favorite of shock-rocker Marilyn Manson.) Directed by Richard Donner (best known for his Superman and Lethal Weapon films), The Omen gained a lot of credibility from the casting of Gregory Peck and Lee Remick as a distinguished American couple living in England, whose young son Damien bears "the mark of the beast." Mysterious deaths and unexplained incidents draw the attention of a photographer (David Warner), whose investigation leads to the young boy--and also to the photographer's shocking decapitation (in a scene that has since been inducted into the horror hall of fame). At a time when graphic gore had yet to dominate the horror genre, this film used its violence discreetly and to great effect, and the mood of dread and potential death is masterfully maintained. It's all a bit hokey, with a lot of biblical portent and sensational fury, but few would deny it's highly entertaining. Jerry Goldsmith's Oscar-winning score works wonders to enhance the movie's creepy atmosphere. --Jeff Shannon
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