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Haley Center Basement / Re: Kaos' way behind movie reviews
« Last post by Kaos on Today at 10:31:51 AM »The First Omen
We already knew that the child brought home by American Diplomat Robert Thorn was not his biological child. The child of Thorn and his wife Katherine supposedly died in childbirth in Rome and Catholic priests/nuns convinced the grieving Thorn to substitute an orphan child born at the same time. We KNEW this if we watched The Omen.
We also knew that Thorn's child was killed and buried near its mother - a jackal - in a forbidding cemetery near Rome. We knew that because we watched Thorn open the caskets before dogs drove him from the plot in the original Omen.
This prequel turned that on its head a little. There was no jackal, only some demon and a girl.
This movie crawls slowly through standard tropes of evil-driven nuns and priests, mysterious priestly rituals, and foreboding music without ever advancing the story - what little there was- at all. In the universe of unnecessary films (and there are many) this ranks near the top of the least necessary, least impactful, worst efforts of all.
Zero scares. A couple of gross birthing scenes. A completely out-of-place "Star Wars" 'there is another' useless sideline.
The Omen is a classic film. It and The Exorcist created a new standard for horror.
This? Just a paint-by-numbers snoozefest.
We already knew that the child brought home by American Diplomat Robert Thorn was not his biological child. The child of Thorn and his wife Katherine supposedly died in childbirth in Rome and Catholic priests/nuns convinced the grieving Thorn to substitute an orphan child born at the same time. We KNEW this if we watched The Omen.
We also knew that Thorn's child was killed and buried near its mother - a jackal - in a forbidding cemetery near Rome. We knew that because we watched Thorn open the caskets before dogs drove him from the plot in the original Omen.
This prequel turned that on its head a little. There was no jackal, only some demon and a girl.
This movie crawls slowly through standard tropes of evil-driven nuns and priests, mysterious priestly rituals, and foreboding music without ever advancing the story - what little there was- at all. In the universe of unnecessary films (and there are many) this ranks near the top of the least necessary, least impactful, worst efforts of all.
Zero scares. A couple of gross birthing scenes. A completely out-of-place "Star Wars" 'there is another' useless sideline.
The Omen is a classic film. It and The Exorcist created a new standard for horror.
This? Just a paint-by-numbers snoozefest.