The Omen



         


The Omen is a 1976 horror film directed by Richard Donner and starring Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Harvey Stephens, Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Troughton, and Leo McKern.

The theme is centered around the end times prophecies that were circulating at the time in fundamentalist Christianity. Unlike the Left Behind series, this movie had no obvious evangelical intent and its reading of the prophecies is fairly superficial, using them as a flimsy premise to unleash another supernatural menace on the hapless world. The story tells of the childhood of "Damien Thorn", adopted by a wealthy diplomatic family who are unaware that he is the offspring of Satan, and destined to become the Antichrist.

Music for the film was composed by Jerry Goldsmith, for which he received an Oscar.

Like most such pictures, it spawned sequels whose implausibility grew with each Roman numeral:






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