Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military school. Widely feared to be the Antichrist, he relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empire — and the world.
- chicago
- illinois
- prophecy
- secret identity
- devil's son
- sequel
- anti-christ
- occult
- raven
- military academy
- baffled
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
William Holden
Richard Thorn
Lee Grant
Ann Thorn
Jonathan Scott-Taylor
Damien Thorn
Robert Foxworth
Paul Buher
- Nicholas Pryor — Charles Warren
- Lew Ayres — Bill Atherton
- Sylvia Sidney — Aunt Marion
- Lance Henriksen — Sergeant Neff
- Lucas Donat — Mark Thorn
- Elizabeth Shepherd — Joan Hart
- Ian Hendry — Michael Morgan (uncredited)
- Leo McKern — Carl Bugenhagen (uncredited)
- Allan Arbus — Pasarian
- Fritz Ford — Murray
- Meshach Taylor — Dr Kane
- Directed
- Don Taylor
- Written
- Harvey Bernhard, Mike Hodges, Stanley Mann
Production
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 · 841 ratings
- Studio
- Mace Neufeld Productions, 20th Century Fox, Harvey Bernhard Productions
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1976The Omen
Where it starts.
Damien - Omen II
1978 · You’re here
The Final Conflict
1981
Omen IV: The Awakening
1991
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
- movie · 1976
The Omen
The closest of them.
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Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice
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movie · 1977
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