I had to backtrack in my movie watching to get to the Omen. I knew of it in passing but when many of the movies I enjoyed referenced the Omen as inspiring them, I rented it and watched it. It was great. The cinematography was impressive. Creepiness was scarier than horror, and the subtle was more insane.

Director

Richard Donner

Genres

Horror

Release Date

25 June 1976 (USA)

Taglines

Those who foretold it are dead. Those who can stop it are in grave danger.

Storyline

Robert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. They are happily married and he is the US Ambassador to Great Britain, but they want nothing more than to have children. When Katharine has a stillborn child, Robert is approached by a priest at the hospital who suggests that they take a healthy newborn whose mother has just died in childbirth. Without telling his wife he agrees. After relocating to London, strange events – and the ominous warnings of a priest – lead him to believe that the child he took from that Italian hospital is evil incarnate.